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Novels

The Seventy Percent
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On minor characters and human possibility

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Love Hurts
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From a fictional dialogue with his father in his novel Change, which will be published this month by Harvill Secker. Translated from the French by John Lambert. Before meeting Elena…

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Novel Gazing
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From “The Impulse Toward Autobiographical Fiction,” a 1963 lecture that is being published for the first time in the collection The Writer as Illusionist, edited and introduced by Alec Wilkinson,…

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Christopher Beha on Arts and Entertainments
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Christopher Beha discusses sex tapes as literary vehicle, the celebrity impulse, and the problematic absence of religion in American literature

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The Prisoner: A Conversation with Omar Shahid Hamid
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Omar Shahid Hamid on novelizing Karachi's cops and gangsters

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Nothing Is Strange
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A trip to Murakami’s jazz club

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