Literature

Browse our essays and reviews on literature.

Every Leaf, Every Tree

An excerpt from Neel Mukherjee's forthcoming graphic novel. With art by Tom Uglow.

  • Neel Mukherjee

Happy Endings

Pride and Prejudice directed by Joe Wright.

  • Alan A. Stone

The Wound and the Dream

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

  • Patrick Erouart-Siad

Realization and Recognition

The art and life of John Fante.

  • Neil Gordon

Making It New

For a second generation of Holocaust writers, the wounds are still open but the language is closed.

  • Jonathan Wilson

The Month of Rushdies

  • Eliot Weinberger

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Video Novels

 TV subverts even the possibility of morality, of human responsibility.

  • Cecelia Tichi

Candidates for Survival

A Talk with Harold Bloom

  • Harold Bloom
  • Ellen Spirer

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

Two Tales of the City

Anti-urbanism in American literature.

  • Leo Marx

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

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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