Postmodern Fiction

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Anis Shivani | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Publishing Industry, Salman Rushdie, Kenzaburo Oe, Best Books, Orhan Pamuk, J. M. Coetzee, Poetry, Fiction, Slidepollajax, Islam, Postmodern Fiction, Creative Writing, Jonathan Franzen, India, Book Publishing, Paul Muldoon, Books News
Anis Shivani

Most of the big names who did come out with novels fell flat on their faces, producing ponderous, bloated, eminently editable books (Julie Orringer, Jonathan Franzen, Jane Smiley).

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Anis Shivani: Why American Reviewers Disliked Ian McEwan's 'Solar'

Anis Shivani | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Michiko Kakutani, Newspaper Reviewing, Solar, Postmodern Fiction, Fiction, British Fiction, Literary Criticism, Morality, Ron Charles, Book Reviewing, Atonement, Global Warming, Ian McEwan, Jonathan Franzen, Books News
Anis Shivani

What American reviewers have missed is that satire and history are coming together for the first time in McEwan's career.

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Paul Gauguin, In Search of the Primitive: Jacques Jouet's Savage

Anis Shivani | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Primitivism, Post-Impressionism, Modernism, Postmodern Fiction, Manet, Experimental Fiction, Imperialism, Colonization, Dalkey Archive Press, Jacques Jouet, Civilization, Paul Gauguin, Books News
Anis Shivani

Savage is highly successful, morally anchored experimental fiction. Jouet provokes fundamental rethinking of the permanent questions about the West's relation to its "savage" other.

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