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LITERARY FICTION

New York Trance — Geoff Dyer and the Life of the Writer

Nonfiction, Fiction, Literary Fiction

New York Trance — Geoff Dyer and the Life of the Writer

Toby Lloyd

In Dyer's repetitions and leitmotifs, we get the sense of watching a mind traveling between planes of existence.

Bali Diary: At the 2015 Ubud Writers and Readers Festival

Literary Fiction

Bali Diary: At the 2015 Ubud Writers and Readers Festival

Maria Bustillos

A visit to the 2015 Ubud Writers and Readers Festival in Bali.

A Strange Mind: An Interview with Orhan Pamuk

Fiction, Literary Fiction

A Strange Mind: An Interview with Orhan Pamuk

Bruce Robbins

The novel is about modern city life, and the characters may be poor, but they are very modern. Their problem is adjusting to the individuality of the city.

Here Be Dragons: On Literary Cartography

Art & Architecture, Literary Fiction

Here Be Dragons: On Literary Cartography

Jonathan Russell Clark

Andrew DeGraff's "Plotted: A Literary Atlas" is a book of maps based on great works of literature.

All Is Permitted, All Over Again: Oliver Ready’s Translation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s “Crime and Punishment”

Literary Fiction

All Is Permitted, All Over Again: Oliver Ready’s Translation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s “Crime and Punishment”

Boris Dralyuk

Oliver Ready's translation of Dostoyevsky's "Crime and Punishment" shows what reactionary work it was.

The Ground Beneath His Feet

Literary Fiction

The Ground Beneath His Feet

Bina Gogineni

Veteran Rushdie readers will find in his most recent novel, "Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights," familiar hallmarks of his imagination.

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Both Coasts: An Interview with Geoffrey G. O'Brien

Both Coasts: An Interview with Geoffrey G. O'Brien

Adam J. Fitzgerald

Fatigue and anger, vitamins, of being born at some remove from Sunday, leaving any world untouched, I guess I sing. But

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Both Coasts: An Interview with Geoffrey G. O'Brien

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Cecil Castellucci talks to LARB about reading and writing Young Adult fiction, and about the very good advice she got from


VIDEO: Clara Mokri on 'Marley & Me'

Clara Mokri, one of our student correspondents, on the book and the film.                   


Superheroes in a Time of Terror: Rushdie’s 1001 Nights

Literary Fiction

Superheroes in a Time of Terror: Rushdie’s 1001 Nights

Andrew Lanham

Comic books, climate change, and caliphates in Salman Rushdie's "Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights."

Postcards from the Threshold

Fiction, Literary Fiction

Postcards from the Threshold

Jerusha Joy Emerson

Joy Williams's stories, especially when read collectively, challenge the plausible and demand a reader's participation, a leap of faith.

Vladimir Nabokov, American Vagabond

Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction

Vladimir Nabokov, American Vagabond

Boris Dralyuk

Vladimir Nabokov wasn’t born in the USA — and that made his take on America important.

The Past Is Useless

Literary Fiction

The Past Is Useless

Ben Parker

Not only in interviews but in the novels themselves, Knausgaard has proven his own best critic.

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