From the Archives: In a Strange Room chronicles Damon’s travels as he journeys from Greece, to various countries in Africa, to India. Traveling, in general, disorients. We are displaced from our normal locations, we are observing places that are not our own, and our minds constantly compare the new, foreign place with the familiar one.
From the Archives: Why do we love Sherlock Holmes? The famed detective nearly sent his creator off the deep end, and has been the object of countless films, odes, debates, letters, and pilgrimages over the past century.
From the Archives: Jennifer Solheim reveals how language structure impacts emotional resonance in the narrative—and for the reader.
From the Archives: We celebrate Valentine’s Day with an homage to the living dead: Colson Whitehead’s Zone One. Don’t fancy a date with scary slavering? No matter. Michael Rudin finds the novel reads like an existential valentine to New York City, and that’s something even a zombie can love.
From the Archives: Why invent a dystopia when there are so many real dystopias out there in the world already?
From the Archives: “What does my reaction to all this say about me as a reader, as a person? … Am I angry at Ben Lerner and his book or am I angry at me?”: Jennifer Audette on learning to love Lerner’s 10:04.
Jamie Yourdon and Aurelie Sheehan chat about research, power dynamics, and Yourdon’s new novel, The Space Between Two Deaths.
Melanie Finn sits down to talk with Benjamin Woodard about her latest novel, The Hare, out now from Two Dollar Radio.
“As a novelist, my favorite fictional conceit is simply to shove a lot of things into one character’s life. In the case of Jacinto, I made him experience virtually all of the anecdotes I’d read about or heard of—from all over Mexico and the American West.”
“Remember, as you read this small book, generally and specifically about love, remember that suffering is, after all, the Latin root for passion”: Ellen Prentiss Campbell on Julian Barnes’s new novel.
