All about fiction.

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• What's With All the "National Best Sellers"? How so many books get to the top of the charts.
  Sean Rocha Oct. 15, 2004
  
• Operation Homeland Therapy The NEA's new writing program for soldiers.
  Aleksandar Hemon Oct. 13, 2004
  
• Scents and Sensibility Has American fiction been deodorized?
  Vendela Vida Oct. 12, 2004
  
• Mission Impossible Why is Henry James the subject of two recent novels?
  Stephen Metcalf Oct. 12, 2004
  
• Close Reading Slate takes a look at recent fiction.
  Oct. 12, 2004
  
• Poppins for Parents In a batch of new fiction, it's the grown-ups who need nannying.
  Ann Hulbert Oct. 12, 2004
  
• The Facts Philip Roth revisits an era when America's pluralist future was far from certain.
  David Greenberg Oct. 12, 2004
  
• Roll Call Who are novelists voting for?
  Oct. 11, 2004
  
• The Plot Against America America is exceptional.
  Judith Shulevitz Oct. 11, 2004