Fiction

Browse our essays and reviews on fiction.

Journey to Macondo in Search of García Márquez

An interview with the Colombian novelist, winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Gene Bell-Villada
Gabriel García Márquez

Bellow’s Blues

William Chace

Bernhard’s Inferno

Lyle Rexer

Gunther Grass Floundering

Grass is haunted by the memory, meaning, and implications of World War II, and it is only through children that he can make some sense out of what happened.

William Cloonan

Doris Lessing Out of Africa

Ruth Perry

Guide to the Latin American Boom

The writers engaged in a transfiguration of Latin American reality, from localism to a kind of heightened, imaginative view of what is real.

Alexander Coleman

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Borges on the Right

To those who are familiar with his writings, Borges’s transformation into a public personality is of supreme irony.

Katherine Singer Kovacs

Reconsidering the Nonfiction Novel

J. M. Alonso

The Fictionalization of Self

On André Malraux.

William Cloonan

Modern Eastern European Fiction in Translation

Eva Hoffman

Up from Underground

Eugene Goodheart

Beyond One Hundred Years of Solitude

Alexander Coleman

Taking Sci-Fi Seriously

Scott Sanders

Cuba’s Alejo Carpentier

Gene Bell-Villada

An Interview with Grace Paley

Talking with the writer, teacher, and political activist.

Grace Paley
Gail Pool
Shirley Roses

Beyond Hadrian’s Memoirs

Alexander Coleman

Fiction as Philosophy

On Robert Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.

Thomas Farrell
Thomas Frentz

The Fiction Collective Novels

Fanny Howe

An Interview with Susan Sontag

Geoffrey Movius speaks with Susan Sontag about photography, writing, and memory.

Susan Sontag
Geoffrey Movius

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