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Writing Towards the Future: Searching for Realism In an Increasingly Surreal World

Writing Towards the Future: Searching for Realism In an Increasingly Surreal World

Fred Lunzer on the Impact of Contemporary Problems on Literary and Science Fiction

By Fred Lunzer | May 21, 2025

Who Is the Real Patron Saint of Realism?"> Lucia Berlin vs. Raymond Carver: <BR

Lucia Berlin vs. Raymond Carver: <BR

Who Is the Real Patron Saint of Realism?">

Who Is the Real Patron Saint of Realism?">Lucia Berlin vs. Raymond Carver:
Who Is the Real Patron Saint of Realism?

Or, Who We [Should] Talk About When We Talk About Realism

By Julien C. Levy | April 23, 2025

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Joel Cuthbertson on the Series’ Obsession with Emotional Reality

By Joel Cuthbertson | January 27, 2025

The Forgotten Female Novelist Who Foresaw Ecology, Environmentalism, and Realist Fiction

The Forgotten Female Novelist Who Foresaw Ecology, Environmentalism, and Realist Fiction

John MacNeill Miller on Harriet Martineau’s Prescient Vision of Humanity

By John MacNeill Miller | September 25, 2024

Respectability Be Damned: How the Harlem Renaissance Paved the Way for Art by Black Nonbelievers

Respectability Be Damned: How the Harlem Renaissance Paved the Way for Art by Black Nonbelievers

Anthony Pinn Explores How James Baldwin, Richard Wright, Zora Neale Hurston, and Others Embraced a New Black Humanism

By Anthony B. Pinn | May 24, 2024

Why Turgenev Remains One of the Most Important Russian Writers (And Why You Should Read the Constance Garnett Translation)

Why Turgenev Remains One of the Most Important Russian Writers (And Why You Should Read the Constance Garnett Translation)

Josh Billings on the Pocket Universes of a True Literary Master

By Josh Billings | December 19, 2022

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George Saunders on the Emotional Realism of Bobbie Ann Mason

George Saunders on the Emotional Realism of Bobbie Ann Mason

Her Fiction is a Scale Model Where People Wander Beautiful, Hostile Dreamscapes

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Garry Winogrand's Photographs Contain Entire Novels

Geoff Dyer on the Legendary Midcentury Photographer

By Geoff Dyer | April 25, 2018

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Annalee Newitz is Imagining the Future of Work

Sci-Fi Can be Hopeful, But First It Has to be Realistic

By Maddie Crum | October 17, 2017

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Christopher Brown on How the Best Science Fiction Remixes the Present

By Christopher Brown | July 10, 2017

All Writing is a Kind of Realism

All Writing is a Kind of Realism

The Invented Part">In Conversation with Rodrigo Fresán, author of The Invented Part

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