Telling It Slant
Joanna Scott : Autobiography & Memoir
J.M. Coetzee's Summertime and the fictions of self-deception.

Joanna Scott : Autobiography & Memoir
J.M. Coetzee's Summertime and the fictions of self-deception.

Madison Smartt Bell : Haiti
In Love, Anger, Madness, Marie Vieux-Chauvet explores the choking fear of life under "Papa Doc" Duvalier.
Ben Ehrenreich
In Evelio Rosero's The Armies, war is like the Law in Kafka: cruel, implacable and coldly divine.

David Carroll Simon
In the fiction of Sylvia Townsend Warner, historical change is accidental and almost imperceptible, but for all that no less decisive.
For Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, the fantastical is always found in the startling, dark and unfathomable episodes of daily life.
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.
Horacio Castellanos Moya has turned anxiety into an art form and put El Salvador on the literary map.
In the stories of Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky, the landscape of the Russian revolution is hostile territory, and terrifying in its scope.
In an information economy, tiny asymmetries in language comprehension translate into vast profits--and large-scale collapses.
With his plain, weather-beaten prose, Don Carpenter was a good enough novelist not to have to prove it.
Technology has made us capable of exterminating ourselves. In The Year of the Flood, Margaret Atwood wonders what might save us.
Phoebe Connelly : The Short of It
Jean Rhys wrote about women who tangled with class and sexuality on their own terms.
Richard Lingeman : Ralph Nader
In Ralph Nader's new utopian novel, "only the super-rich can save us."
A conversation with the author of Homer and Langley about opting out.
Mercè Rodoreda's fiction plumbs a sadness borne of helplessness, an almost voluptuous vulnerability.
Novelist Clarice Lispector idealized animals and idiots because they were free of the desire to translate experience into words.
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.
