Zhao Juan (BTBU): A Comparison of Tennessee Williams and Anton Chekhov. From The New Atlantis, a special section on scientific progress and the American literary genius. Franco Moretti on Ibsen and the spirit of capitalism. Daniel Wood on peering beneath the surface of Ernest Hemingway's six-word story. From the forthcoming The Late American Novel: Writers on the Future of Books, Benjamin Kunkel says goodbye to the graphosphere; and Marco Roth on the outskirts of progress. Long before Elizabeth Gilbert, Somerset Maugham turned the ashram experience into a monster best seller, The Razor’s Edge. A review of Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsburg: The Letters, and The Typewriter is Holy: The Complete, Uncensored History of the Beat Generation by Bill Morgan (and more and more and more and more). Lindsay Eanet on eight literary works that deserve a graphic-novel treatment. Stephen Burt reviews On Whitman by C.K. Williams. Why fiction may be twice as true as fact: Keith Oatley on fiction as cognitive and emotional simulation. From NPQ, an interview with Orhan Pamuk, caressing the world with words; and an interview with Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio: "The world has no center". Novelist Jonathan Safran Foer discusses fiction and how to teach it. John Gray reviews Politics and the Novel During the Cold War by David Caute. Author Photo Smackdown: As usual, The L Magazine comes up with ever classier ways to engage with contemporary literature.
