Return to: Home | Culture | Books | Fiction

Culture: Fiction

The value of  a quiet voice

The value of a quiet voice

For so long the poor relation of English letters, the short story finally came of age in the fiction of V S Pritchett.

6 comments

The Detour

Gerbrand Bakker

The Revelations

Alex Preston

The Art of Fielding

Chad Harbach

Masscult and Midcult: Essays Against the American Grain

Dwight Macdonald

The Books Interview — Chad Harbach

The critic and n+1 editor talks about his first novel, The Art of Fielding, baseball and literary influences from Whitman through Thoreau to David Foster Wallace.

Married Love

Tessa Hadley

Heroic unhappiness

Salman’s trouble in India

Monsters ink

Two hundred years after the heyday of the gothic novel, people still want to scare themselves. We read tales of murderers and vampires because we crave the sensation of fear we so rarely feel in everyday life.

More in Fiction

“The Green Park”

I love Christmas, for its fictions as much as its feasts

Best European Fiction 2012

She’s Leaving Home

Words in pictures: Jack Kerouac

The Sea Is My Brother: the Lost Novel

The man with the child in his eyes

Death Comes to Pemberley

Holmes and away

Scenes from Provincial Life

The value of a quiet voice

The value of  a quiet voice

The Fixer

The Fixer (BBC2)

Ralph Fiennes

The NS Interview: Ralph Fiennes

The Muppets return

Gilbey on Film: We need to talk about Kermit

A life in pictures

Charles Dickens: snapshots of a life

Hemingway's Boat

Hemingway’s Boat: Everything He Loved  in Life, and Lost (1934-61)

Mind your B-sides

Mind your B-sides

Our film awards

And the award goes to...

© New Statesman 1913 - 2010