American fiction Archives

American fiction

Stop Motion

by Sharon Wahl,

From Everything Flirts, which will be published next month by the University of Iowa Press. I drove from Madison back to St. Louis, took the usual exit from the freeway,…

New Material

by Camille Bordas,

Literary entrails

by Cynthia Ozick,

The boys in the alley, the disappearing readers, and the novel's ghostly twin

The second coming of Richard Yates

by Lee Siegel,

Neo-naturalism and the inescapable past

The glory of J.F. Powers

by Donna Tartt,

A writer's work is resurrected

A translator’s patriot game

by Justo Navarro,

Scent of a Woman’s Ink

by Francine Prose,

Are women writers really inferior?

The unsparing vision of Don Delillo

by Vince Passaro,

In his new novel, Underworld, an American fresco

Say It Ain’t So, Huck

by Jane Smiley,

Second thoughts on Mark Twain’s “masterpiece”

Making the incest scene

by Katie Roiphe,

In novel after novel, writers grope for dark secrets

The enemies of imagination

by Bob Shacochis,