The greatest characters possess an irrepressible vitality.
critical-miniatures
The historical novel strives to recreate not only the material dimensions of a past age but also its mindset.
An unfinished fiction is a memento mori.
Consider another problem of motivation in the house of fiction: why characters write.
When translation becomes a part of the art of fiction.
An abandoned—or abandoning—god might also reappear.
Austen’s sparing use of attributions is also a sign of her confidence in her art. She dispensed with unnecessary scaffolding.
The very short story can conjure a fiction out of almost nothing.
Philosophers are not the only cultivators of wonder.
If there is a war between database and narrative in Cervantes and Sterne, it is a merry one.