Future Tense
"Yes," said a Frenchman. "We have this silly theory in France that our authors should be able to eat."
"Yes," said a Frenchman. "We have this silly theory in France that our authors should be able to eat."
The police procedural is rich with political implications, a feature fundamental to Sjöwall and Wahlöö's literary accomplishment.
Punk’s devotees had a lot invested in how things were turning out; one’s music of choice was a territory to be defended...
What happens in Heinrich Böll's novels, and why am I calling them experimental?
RED-HEADED KIT CORRIGAN IS ONE of the "Corrigan Three," triplets whose birth killed their mother, and who are raised by a father, Jimmy. The three...
AT AGE SEVEN, I WAS TRAPPED in an elevator. Stuck. Forgotten. Desperate. OK. Kind of. In truth, my ordeal lasted all of a few minutes and ended...
John Dower’s Cultures of War avoids the pitfalls of doing history by analogy.
Things Iowa Workshop Writers Say
AFFECTION FOR PLACE RUNS like a red thread through Rebecca Solnit’s work. Solnit is a writer without portfolio who has already produced histories...
The drifter, unfulfilled desire, misplaced guilt, a greed-ridden culture, street-level perspective — distilled into a coherent, kaleidoscopic whole.
Two risks I court are keeping the fourth wall permeable and sticking closely to recognizable, lived stories.
Richard’s amazing new memoir, House of Prayer No. 2, avoids the Old South clichés.
When it comes to trying to make a piece of fiction, scaling down is an essential strategy. The world has "scalability" in spades.
Desire and despair smolder fulvous, pungent and sulphuric in Gronk’s black and white.
Like her earlier works, Bad Marie is human, deeply-felt, delightfully well-honed, and though stylized, stops short of quirkiness for quirkiness’ sake.
Xiao's powerful memoir of his years at a forced labor camp is written in unflinching, unadorned prose that ably conveys the horrors he witnessed.