There is an almost exact parallel to this aspect of the picaresque novel in contemporary fiction: the recurring story of the young man who begins in poor circumstances and climbs vertically through ...

Fantasy is one of the most popular fiction genres available, and thus has quite the range of subgenres within it. For ...

Science fiction deserves scientific analysis. While conventional qualitative literary analysis has been extended to science fiction in a progressively more refined manner, quantitative analysis of the ...

Raymond A. Mar receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada. We all know that reading is good for children and for adults, and that we should all be ...

When a writer writes a short story about a writer, there’s always a temptation to read it as autobiographical. But when a writer writes an entire book of such stories, which is what Tom Bissell has ...