Telling It Slant
Joanna Scott : Autobiography & Memoir
J.M. Coetzee's Summertime and the fictions of self-deception.
2010
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Permanent Exile
Madison Smartt Bell : Haiti
In Love, Anger, Madness, Marie Vieux-Chauvet explores the choking fear of life under "Papa Doc" Duvalier.
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After Macondo
Ben Ehrenreich
In Evelio Rosero's The Armies, war is like the Law in Kafka: cruel, implacable and coldly divine.
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History Unforeseen
David Carroll Simon
In the fiction of Sylvia Townsend Warner, historical change is accidental and almost imperceptible, but for all that no less decisive.
2009
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Sometimes a Small Redemption
For Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, the fantastical is always found in the startling, dark and unfathomable episodes of daily life.
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Like Lives
A 9/11 story modeled on Jane Eyre, A Gate at the Stairs is Lorrie Moore's most ambitious novel, and her slipperiest work to date.
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Novelist From Another Planet
Horacio Castellanos Moya has turned anxiety into an art form and put El Salvador on the literary map.
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Evicted From His Own Head
In the stories of Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky, the landscape of the Russian revolution is hostile territory, and terrifying in its scope.
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Linguistic Currency
In an information economy, tiny asymmetries in language comprehension translate into vast profits--and large-scale collapses.
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At Least, At Most
With his plain, weather-beaten prose, Don Carpenter was a good enough novelist not to have to prove it.
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Honey and Salt
Technology has made us capable of exterminating ourselves. In The Year of the Flood, Margaret Atwood wonders what might save us.
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Drunk and Disorderly
Phoebe Connelly : The Short of It
Jean Rhys wrote about women who tangled with class and sexuality on their own terms.
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Nader's Road to Utopia
Richard Lingeman : Ralph Nader
In Ralph Nader's new utopian novel, "only the super-rich can save us."
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Back Talk: E.L. Doctorow
A conversation with the author of Homer and Langley about opting out.
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A Domestic Existentialist
Mercè Rodoreda's fiction plumbs a sadness borne of helplessness, an almost voluptuous vulnerability.
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Speak as Little as Possible
Novelist Clarice Lispector idealized animals and idiots because they were free of the desire to translate experience into words.
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Aracataca and Sucre
Will narrowed on a single object and fixed in the face of adversity--such is the recurring story of Gabriel García Márquez's work and life.
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