Fiction

In Dublin on 10 June 1904, in Nassau Street, James Joyce, aspiring writer and penniless flâneur, accosted a handsome young…

In your story from this week’s issue, “Heart,” the narrator’s family suffers from a hereditary disease passed down from his…

Over the past decade-and-a-half, Jeffrey Wright has cemented his legacy as one of the great character actors of our time…

It is a truism of creative writing classes that hunger of one kind or another is a prerequisite for the protagonist in any…

Early on in this darkly fascinating novel based on real people and events, the Austrian physicist Paul Ehrenfest speaks of a…

It’s getting harder to see a difference between dystopian and realist fiction. Land of Milk and Honey, Zhang’s second novel…

A grudge is usually characterised as an unreasonable holding on to some wrong, long after the customs of courtesy would allow…

The newest addition to the Disaster Studies PhD programme at All Saints University, a version of Manchester Metropolitan, is a…

Of all the debate over teaching U.S. slavery, it is one sentence of Florida’s revised academic standards that has provoked…

The narrator of your story “Bruises” is a former British soldier who fought in Iraq. He is clearly suffering from P.T.S.D.,…

Grace and Janice meet in Holloway prison. On their release, they develop a scheme to rob old ladies. The pair pretend to be…

AK Blakemore’s second novel is inspired by the real life story of Tarare, a showman in 18th-century France who made his living…