In this essay we respond to Mari Hatavara's and Jarmila Mildorf's critical engagement with our "Ten Theses about Fictionality." We explain why we find our rhetorical approach to fictionality more ...

One of Bernhard Schlink’s more endearing and effective narrative techniques involves a character’s posing a series of internal questions. Grappling with Ian Buruma’s review of Schlink’s latest novel, ...

I should have had a ready answer at my fingertips (but it was early in the morning and I hadn’t opened my can of Red Bull). I mumbled something about an attempt to impose order on the chaos of the ...