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Realism in literature

Afterword

I wrote The Spy Who Came in from the Cold at the age of thirty under intense, unshared, personal stress, and in extreme privacy. As an intelligence officer in the…

Flatfoot agonistes

by Edward Conlon,

Inside the police-entertainment complex

Motherless children

by Jonathan Dee,

Lorrie Moore tries to keep it real

Literary entrails

by Cynthia Ozick,

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

Why Experimental Fiction Threatens to Destroy Publishing, Jonathan Franzen, and Life as we Know It

by Ben Marcus,

A correction

A generous mind

by Robert Boyers,

The realism of Natalia Ginzburg

On Broadway

by Arthur Miller,

Notes on the past and future of American theater

“Realism” in the American theatre

by Mary McCarthy,

The easy chair

by Bernard Augustine De Voto,

Untrue to life

by Harper’s Staff,

Editor’s study