Ficciones

by Jorge Luis Borges

I owe the discovery of Uqbar to the conjunction of a mirror and an encyclopedia.

The Supernatural in Fiction

by Peter Penzoldt

My contemporaries in fiction

by David Christie Murray

Story and discourse

by Seymour Benjamin Chatman

Among the many pressing needs of literary theory-poetics in the broad sense-is a reasoned account of the structure of na...

Dialogue

by Lewis Turco

"Murder Will Out"

by T. J. Binyon

Images of women in fiction

by Susan Koppelman Cornillon

Westerns

by Lee Clark Mitchell

A curious sense of disproportion is evoked by any listing of luminaries who loved Westerns, as if that were the sole com...

The fire in fiction

by Donald Maass

The lady investigates

by Patricia Craig

The book of dialogue

by Lewis Turco

Fashion in fiction

by Peter McNeil, Vicki Karaminas

The Science Fiction Hall of Fame -- Volume One

by Robert Silverberg, Robert A. Heinlein

Style in Fiction

by Geoffrey N. Leech, Michael H. Short

Great moments in fiction

by Walt Disney Productions

Cryptonomicon

by Neal Stephenson

IS THE BEST THAT CORPORAL BOBBY SHAFTOE CAN do on short notice-he's standing on the running board, gripping his Springfi...

Novel Gazing

by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

The Things They Carried

by Tim O'Brien

First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross carried letters from a girl named Martha, a junior at Mount Sebastian College in New Jersey...

Pebble in the Sky

by Isaac Asimov

Two minutes before he dissappeared from the face of the Earth he knew, Joseph Schwartz strolled along the pleasant stree...

The Overstory

by Richard Powers, Richard Powers