All about fiction.

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• For Whom the Shill Toils Hemingway's lost work for Ringling Bros. and Ballantine Ale.
  Paul Devlin Oct. 13, 2006
  
• Overlooked Fiction  Bloggers and booksellers recommend their favorite little-known reads.
  Oct. 12, 2006
  
• Yokely-Dokely America The disgracefulness of Charles Frazier.
  Stephen Metcalf Oct. 12, 2006
  
• Governess Gone Goth A new edition of Jane Eyre reveals its truly subversive message.
  Ann Hulbert Oct. 12, 2006
  
• American Ingenious The sly brilliance of experimental novelist Lynne Tillman.
  Jessica Winter Oct. 12, 2006
  
• Surprising Powers Richard Powers' scientific humanism.
  Stephen Burt Oct. 11, 2006
  
• The Mother Load Edna O'Brien's dark look at the mother-daughter bond.
  Claire Dederer Oct. 11, 2006
  
• Men at Work The literary masculinity of Cormac McCarthy.
  Jennifer Egan Oct. 10, 2006
  
• The Impermanent Period Richard Ford's modern-day Hamlet.
  Blake Bailey Oct. 10, 2006
  
• The Novel, 2.0 Why The Sopranos is great modern fiction.
  Walter Kirn Oct. 10, 2006
  
• Novel Pleasures Fall Fiction Week at Slate.
  Oct. 10, 2006