(Lev Grossman writes about books here on Wednesdays. Subscribe to his RSS feed.) This post is by way of a reply to Arthur Krystal’s “Easy Writers,” a thoroughly thought-provoking piece about the ...
A s a fannish undergraduate in the late 1990s, I took a creative-writing workshop thinking I might write science fiction. I was quickly disabused of that notion. “I don’t do science fiction, and I don ...
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Fan fiction may not command the same respect as other literary pursuits, but it's a rich mode of expression, says one author who mounts a passionate case for the style. Who is she? Esther Yi is an ...
Once seen as the purview of British and American writers, crime fiction is very much a global phenomenon. Fictional investigators such as Lisbeth Salander, Kurt Wallander and Jules Maigret are now ...
Paul Tremblay’s novels explore grief and belonging; they delve into the maudlin world of the dead and of the end of the world. Now the acclaimed horror writer trains his gaze on a new monstrosity: the ...
In her new novel, “Sophie, Standing There,” the author turns her gaze to the backstage of literary festivals and defends the ...
A fireproof edition of Margaret Atwood's prescient and often-banned book "The Handmaids Tale." It is one of the greatest works of speculative fiction. Speculative fiction, often referred to as spec ...
More than 90% of modern short stories published in The New Yorker over the past decade barely acknowledge climate change.