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Opinions Bring back the serialized novel By Hillary Kelly April 24 at 11:43 AM, 2015, The Washington Post Hillary Kelly is a contributing editor at Washingtonian and a books and culture writer in Washington, D.C. Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Google Plus Share via Email More Options Share on Whatsapp Share on Pinterest Share on LinkedIn Share on Tumblr Share on Li..

THE TRUE STORY OF AH Q CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION For several years now I have been meaning to write the true story of Ah Q. But while wanting to write I was in some trepidation, too, which goes to show that I am not one of those who achieve glory by writing; for an immortal pen has always been required to record the deeds of an immortal man, the man becoming known to posterity thr..

The Bizarre, Complicated Formula for Literary Fame By Joshua Rothman The New Yorker April 17, 2015 Credit Popperfoto/Getty William Wordsworth died a hundred and sixty-five years ago next week, on April 23, 1850. Why is he still so famous? The obvious answer is that he was a genius. But genius isn’t, in itself, enough to guarantee the sort of lasting, exalted fame that Wordswo..

Günter Grass, German Novelist and Social Critic, Dies at 87 By STEPHEN KINZER The New York Times APRIL 13, 2015 Günter Grass in 2009. The publication in 1959 of the “The Tin Drum” propelled him to the forefront of postwar literature. Credit Jens Meyer/Associated Press. Günter Grass, the German novelist, social critic and Nobel Prize winner whom many called hi..

The Moral Urgency of Anna Karenina Bu Gary Saul Morson 04.01.15 - 12:00 AM, Commentary I. The First Sentence Often quoted but rarely understood, the first sentence of Anna Karenina—“All happy families resemble each other; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way”—offers a paradoxical insight into what is truly important in human lives. What exactly does thi..

“Poetry & Truth” by David Yezzi David Yezzi is the Poetry Editor of The New Criterion. His latest collection of poems is Birds of the Air (Carnegie Mellon). The New Criterion April 2015 Poets, like journalists, historians, are after the truth. But what kind of truth, exactly, do we find in poetry? Anthony Hecht in 1947 In his “Dedication” to Don Juan, Byron strikes a ch..

The Meeting That Never Was by Matthew Lamb Los Angeles Review of Books March 13th, 2015 1. ONE DAY in February 1945, in Paris, George Orwell waited at the café Deux Magots, where he was to meet Albert Camus for the first time. But Camus, suffering from tuberculosis and exhaustion — because of which he was currently on leave from his editorship of the resistance news..

Immortal Beloved Why writers want fans who last forever By William Giraldi New Republic Those Who Write for Immortality: Romantic Reputations and the Dream of Lasting Fame by H. J. Jackson Yale University Press, 312 pp., $35 Writers live lives of curious contradiction. Their work succeeds only by means of a monastic interiority and lonesomeness, and yet they yearn for that wor..

How the Grimm Brothers Saved the Fairy Tale By Jack Zipes HUMANITIES, March/April 2015 | Volume 36, Number 2 The surprising history behind the world’s most famous collection of folk tales. The young son of a Lord extends kindness to a caged man in “The Wild Man.” —Illustration © Andrea Dezsö + Click on image to enlarge. A desperate young man makes a barga..

Books The death of writing – if James Joyce were alive today he’d be working for Google There’s hardly an instant of our lives that isn’t electronically documented. These days, it is software that maps our new experiences, our values and beliefs. How should a writer respond? Tom McCarthy on fiction in the age of data saturation Information overload? Illustration: I..