MacFarlane, Robert “The Old Ways” (Viking 2012)

I have walked paths for years, and for years I have read about them. The literature of wayfaring is long, … More

Casey N Cep “The Allure of the Map” (The New Yorker, 22 January 2014)

Casey N Cep “The Allure of the Map” (The New Yorker, 22 January 2014)

The literary equivalent of the emperor’s map would be a biography of everyone in the world, or a novel of … More

Moshin Hamid: “Are the New ‘Golden Age’ TV Shows the New Novels?” (New York Times, 25 February 2014)

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/02/books/review/are-the-new-golden-age-tv-shows-the-new-novels.html?nl=books&emc=edit_bk_20140228 Television is not the new novel. Television is the old novel. In the future, novelists need not abandon plot … More

Virginia Woolf “Women and Fiction” (Mariner, 2009)

For a novel, after all, is a statement about a thousand different objects–human, natural, divine; it is an attempt to … More