Tag: Fiction

Garth Greenwell’s Cleanness movingly depicts the vulnerabilities of queer desire, but it also continues a long tradition of exoticizing Eastern European sexuality.

The artist exploded the idea of what a book can be. For him, it was not a thing, but an instrument—something to do something with.

The winner of the National Book Award for Translated Literature serves up an apocalyptic vision of Hungarian society.

A timely new documentary celebrates Morrison’s novels but downplays the enduring power of her work as an editor and essayist.

Science fiction author Ted Chiang wrote the story for the Academy Award–winning film Arrival. Now his new collection of short stories gives us further glimpses of possible futures.

Novelist Andrea Lawlor talks trans identity, the origins of Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl, and the future of queer literature.

Hye-young Pyun’s surreal, violent novels reject stereotypes about Korean women’s writing, taking up global themes of environmental collapse and the loneliness of city life.

Novelist Olga Tokarczuk, winner of the Booker International Prize, presents a multicultural Poland, to the ire of the Polish far-right.

Hwang Sok-yong’s novel Familiar Things sounds a warning about the pitfalls of Korean reunification.

Neel Mukherjee is part of a new generation of Indian writers dissecting postcolonialism’s failed promise of a classless society.

A science fiction writer remembers his early correspondences with Ursula Le Guin.

We live in Philip K. Dick’s future, not George Orwell’s or Aldous Huxley’s.

His novels might be read as a fictive analogue to Howard Zinn’s People’s History of the United States: a polyphonic chronicle of the betrayal of his country’s original promise.

Nalo Hopkinson on the politics of dystopia, writing from the Global South, and the enduring importance of black mermaids.

From invading Afghanistan to dismantling Confederate monuments, George Orwell has been pressed into the service of all sorts of causes. But the real Orwell remains unknown.

A new generation of young Polish novelists has turned to dystopia to express Poland's cultural and economic contradictions.

Celebrated dystopian novelist Paul Kingsnorth talks surviving the collapse of civilization as we know it.

Emile Habiby's absurd fictions offer a map for surviving impossible political conditions.

On Indian literature in English after Arundhati Roy.

Our democracy may depend on government workers, and indeed all of us, saying "I would prefer not to."

Yuri Herrera's first two novels explore Mexican border identity. 

Paul Park’s fantasy troubles the line between fiction and reality.