Fiction

Meeting a best female friend can feel like falling in love – identification that borders on obsession that backs back…

The sense that there exists a gap between language and the world is the theme to which Ben Lerner’s writing has most relentlessly returned.

Josephine Rowe’s stories are about time. Time as it is lived and as it is recounted; the way it doesn’t just progress, but speeds and slows, persists and lingers.

Now that I have children, the consequences of living under patriarchy are starting to make themselves known to me in ways that are not theoretical.

Wood’s writing continues to grow in assurance which each new work: never fussy, but grounded, and intensely physical.

There is something deeply interior about the traumas that set Schweblin’s stories in motion, something that seems to correspond more to atmosphere and mood than plot.

In the remarks that preface his 2003 Nobel Lecture, entitled ‘He and His Man’ (worth watching on YouTube for the…

There is no place like home because home is not actually a place.

This image of a woman observed in public, her distraction a sign that she is somewhere else, too, is one that arises again and again in texts that have women contemplate the minds of other women.

The Middle Parts of Fortune is a novel that enables us to understand the bodily, material, and phenomenological aspects of war. It belongs to the age of literary modernism, yet its language and style owed much to Manning’s classicist tastes.