Fiction

Browse our essays and reviews on fiction.

Love Among the Ruins

Reviewing Robert Clark. 

  • Tom Bissell

Secret Histories

Creating a Colombian national identity through crime fiction.

  • Santiago Gamboa

Review: By the Sea

By Abdulrazak Gurnah.

  • Patrick Erouart-Siad

Review: A Few Corrections and The Partnership

By Brad Leithauser and Barry Unsworth. 
 

  • James Sallis

Review: The Rights of Desire

By André Brink. 

  • Roger Boylan

The Kingdom of Moravia

The Marxist-inspired moralism of the acclaimed Italian novelist. 

  • Bill Marx

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Review: Paradise Park

By Allegra Goodman.

  • Joyce Hackett

Review: Beloved Stranger

By Clare Boylan.

  • Jennifer Howard

Review: The Song of the Earth

By Hugh Nissenson. 

  • Roger Boylan

The Last Gentleman

A friend and student remembers Richard Yates.

  • James Crumley

A Comedy with Animals

Ernest Hemingway, Jane Kendall Mason, and "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber"

  • Alane S. Mason

Review: The Lecturer’s Tale

By James Hynes. 

  • Eliza Nichols

Review: Kingdom of Shadows

By Alan Furst.

  • Lev Raphael

Review: Gob’s Grief

By Chris Adrian. 

  • Drake Bennett

Genre Trouble

Why can’t critics take John Crowley seriously?

  • James Hynes

Review: Loving Graham Greene and An American Outrage

By Gloria Emerson and G. K. Wuori.

  • Jennifer Howard

Review: The Forger

By Paul Watkins.

  • John Marks

Review: The Big Hunger

By John Fante.

  • Rob Spillman

The Wound and the Dream

In Haiti, a militant, prophetic literature thrives alongside political disaster.

  • Patrick Erouart-Siad

Hot on the Trail

Review: Brian McGrory and Toby Olson.

  • Roger Boylan

Review: Plowing the Dark

By Richard Powers.

  • Tom Bissell

Review: What She Saw . . .

By Lucinda Rosenfeld.

  • Jill Eisenstadt

Review: Louisa

By Simone Zelitch.

  • Leora Bersohn

Review: What Are You Like?

By Anne Enright.

  • Robert Karron
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