All about fiction.

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• Reading Faulkner With Oprah It's underrated.
  Meghan O'Rourke Sept. 15, 2005
  
• The Plot Doesn't Thicken Comparing J.M. Coetzee's Slow Man and Denton Welch's A Voice Through a Cloud.
  Francine Prose Sept. 14, 2005
  
• Marjorie Morningstar The conservative novel that liberal feminists love.
  Alana Newhouse Sept. 14, 2005
  
• Fall Fiction Week Slate's second annual look at the novel.
  Sept. 13, 2005
  
• Dear Booker Committee Is Zadie Smith really ready to receive your esteemed prize?
  Stephen Metcalf Sept. 13, 2005
  
• Marching Orders E. L. Doctorow and the problem of historical novels.
  J.D. Connor Sept. 13, 2005
  
• Darkness at Noon Arthur Koestler's milestone anti-Stalinist novel.
  Christopher Hitchens Sept. 13, 2005