Influences are strange things. They’re active, sought out, even entreated. But they’re also elusive, enigmatic, disguised. In art, in life, in social media, influences are … Read More
From the Latin ambitiō, by way of the Old French, across the Channel and the centuries through the Middle English, and finally to the modern … Read More
In the protean landscape of contemporary fiction, the historical novel is among those having something of a moment. Given the literary world’s apparently endless quest … Read More
For all the antagonizing, ruminating, and even moralizing that comes with defining the parameters of literary fiction, perhaps the one point of (near-) universal agreement … Read More
Among the most ancient and revered forms, which the amorphous siren known as prose may assume, is that of satire, used for millennia to critique, … Read More
Van Gogh’s self-portraits are among his most famous and beloved works; presidential autobiographies fly off the shelves when they inexorably appear a year out of … Read More
An interesting, if somewhat recondite, corner of the great novelistic universe is the study of literary ancestry:where a work comes from, what it grows from, … Read More
