Novelists

The Path to Freedom

by Édouard Louis, Translated by Tash Aw,

From the introduction to A Woman’s Battles and Transformations, a book about the author’s mother, which will be published next month by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Translated from the French.…

The Notes of Patrick Modiano

by Peter De Jonge,

A young writer finds his voice on the radio

From interviews conducted by journalists and readers with Elena Ferrante since 2003. The correspondence is included in Frantumaglia, a collection of Ferrante’s papers that was published last month by Europa…

Only a Game

by Karl Ove Knausgaard,

From a letter written by Karl Ove Knausgaard to Fredrik Ekelund, a novelist, in 2014. The letter was included in Home and Away, a collection of their letters about the…

Family Business

by David Lipsky,

Mr. and Mrs. Nabokov’s half-century

The Torment and the Engine

by Elena Ferrante,

From an interview in the Spring 2015 issue of The Paris Review. Elena Ferrante is the pseudonym of an Italian novelist whose books include The Days of Abandonment, My Brilliant…

Alphabet Cities

by Paul Auster, J. M. Coetzee,

From Here and Now, a collection of letters exchanged by novelists J. M. Coetzee and Paul Auster between 2008 and 2011, out this month from Viking. 24 august 2009 Dear…

The Cake Killer

by Jerzy N. Kosinski,

From “ ‘Being There’ in Toronto,” a May 3, 1987, speech by Jerzy Kosinski. Oral Pleasure, a collection of Kosinski’s speeches, essays, and interviews, edited by Barbara Tepa Lupack and Kiki…

Into the Unforeseen

by Rivka Galchen,

A romance of César Aira

The Julius Campe Prize

by Thomas Bernhard, Translated by Carol Brown Janeway,

In a Watery Mood

by Arabella Kurtz, J. M. Coetzee,

From an email exchange between psychologist Arabella Kurtz and novelist J. M. Coetzee Read More

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