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Hemingway's literary interest in cycling has been upstaged by other interests such as bullfighting and boxing. But in his apprenticeship years in Paris, he became a devoted fan of bicycle [...]

Prose fictions such as Chris Abani's Becoming Abigail and Dave Eggers's What Is the What mobilize their readers' readiness to identify with a given protagonist through differently haunted styles of [...]

If Haruki Murakami's fictions are symptomatic of what has happened to the (Jamesian) notion of a 'central intelligence' as necessary to the novel, they present a new level of postmodernist [...]

This article defines 'literary materiality' and discusses how it is portrayed Martial's fiction. Topics include irony, social criticism, genre, poetics, and satire.

The development of the contemporary fiction novel is traced from its beginnings in the twentieth century to newer forms such as Thomas Mallon's. His novels such as 'Dewey Defeats Truman' and 'Henry and Clara', are a form of historical fiction.

I once imagined that I could attend a conference of the Associated Writing Programs without putting my writerly soul in jeopardy. I learned otherwise one brilliant Easter weekend in San [...]

Robert Hazel fictional work is analyzed and critically presented. It is stated that his less successful fiction work reminds people of the dazzling, descriptive detail and heartbreaking images that make the poetry of Robert soar.

Robert Steiner belongs to his age, a troubled period that has witnessed the demise of all those consecrated categories that formerly enabled us to grasp literary and artistic phenomena. Dubious [...]

The essential details of Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard's formative years are unforgettably recorded in his autobiographical work Gathering Evidence, which is written in the same iconoclastic, relentlessly repetitive style of [...]

* In what period, or with what work of narrative, can we safely begin talking about the existence of a 'science fiction'? The question is certainly tricky. The idea of [...]

The great Augustan writer Joseph Addison speaks about 'monster birth' and about 'newness' as distinct aesthetic effects in his Spectator number 413, but he has severe doubts about the possibility [...]

Consider, first, a novel about a thirty-seven-year-old ship's crew-woman, thrown up on the beach by an economic squeeze, unemployed and unemployable because unwilling to change a way of life that [...]

This is not really an essay about Brad Morrow or his projected trilogy so much as it is a reflection on the nature of linked works of fiction as inspired--and [...]

Prologue Do not read this essay. Chapter I: Once upon a before time Once upon a before time, all of duration and space, all of the energy and matter that [...]

A foreword, an afterword? What's the occasion? A collection got up by an editor--on theater, on scribblers' sleepless nights, on the imprint, or residue, of the Bible in a writer's [...]

It begins like a rocket launch, with a thrust of energy, a delirious unleashed syntactical arc that fuses the whooping energy of three boys joyriding in a stolen car with [...]

They spoke in light, when they felt like speaking. They spoke only to her, they said. When she asked them what they wanted, they retreated into the bark of their [...]

I think of Curtis White as the model of the child-of-the-sixties as writer. Born in 1951 and raised in San Lorenzo, California, in a postwar, prefabricated housing development, White came [...]

The first two installments of a planned eight-volume edition of the collected fiction of Philip Roth will be released in October 2005 by the Library of America. The two installments include Philip Roth: Novels and Stories 1959-1972 and Philip Roth: Novels 1967-1972.