
5 Novels Whose Main Characters Are Shut-ins
Characters, as a rule, should possess agency. They must be capable of changing the course of the plot, of meeting conflict,…
Characters, as a rule, should possess agency. They must be capable of changing the course of the plot, of meeting conflict,…
There are novels, and there are anthropological studies, and then there are books that are a curious mixture of the…
It’s kinda fun liking something a lot of other people like. We call it popular culture for a reason, right? Popularity…
When we previously considered the role of narrative voice in fiction, we left out one of the biggies—one in which,…
Nora Ephron wrote her truth. She shared the daily horrors and joys of being a particular type of woman (opinionated,…
Maria Semple’s Where’d You Go, Bernadette is newly out in paperback, and the cover is emblazoned with reasons you should…