Rethinking Fitzgerald’s Final Days
What I’d Die for You tells us about Fitzgerald’s troubled final years. And how he turned personal tragedy into his best work.
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‘The Story of Memory’: A Conversation with Paula Hawkins
Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on The Train and Into the Water, reflects on two unreliable things: narrators and memory.
Michael Lewis and the Narrative Nonfiction Formula
A conversation with best-selling author Michael Lewis and a deep-dive into the limits of the narrative nonfiction formula.
Michael Chabon’s Broken World
A conversation with the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon.
Ben Lerner on Why So Many People (Rightfully) Hate Poetry
A conversation with the MacArthur-winning poet and novelist.
France’s Unlikely Literary Rebel
Maylis de Kerangal’s “The Heart” combines the language of science, philosophy, and pop culture to create a novel that defies categorization—and frustrates certain literary élites.
You Can Do Anything if You Just Do it Slowly
The best-selling author Lauren Groff on artistic narcissism, Véra Nabokov, and her winding road to success.
Can Lorin Stein Translate Michel Houellebecq Into a Great Writer?
Is Michel Houellebecq’s writing improved when he’s translated into English?
Julian Barnes Looks at Art
The writer’s new book of criticism is for the reader who “isn’t a professional and isn’t an academic and doesn’t have a theory to promote.”
John Banville on the Utter Mystery of Writing
Five decades after trading paintbrushes for pens, the Irish novelist says writing fiction remains an enigma.
