What are some of the best short- to medium-length novels?

What was the first novel?

What is the longest novel ever written?

Which titles might someone particularly recommend by authors Yasunari Kawabata, Yukio Mishima, and Kenzaburo Oe?

If one were to start a book club focused on reading difficult (but ultimately rewarding) novels, what should one include and why?

What American authors are most likely to win a future Nobel Prize in Literature and why?

How does Ian McEwan achieve suspense?

Who are some of the most notable womanizers in the literary world?

In the “Bluest Eye,” why does Pecola like to organize things?

What are the best author interviews from The Paris Review Interviews series and why?

What are Anthony Trollope’s three to five best novels?

What writers were the biggest alcoholics?

How accurate is the science in Ian McEwan’s novel “Solar”?

Anthony Burgess told me that one day he ought to re-read his early novels like The Right to an Answer and The Eve of St Agnes. But is it possible to find a copy of a key early work, The ...

What are the 7 great themes in story telling?

Why is no great literature being written now?

What was the most important artistic accomplishment of the 20th Century?

Literary Fiction: What contemporary authors are heirs to the legacy of Harry Mathews, Raymond Queneau, and the comic surrealist novel?

Is Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel ‘When We Were Orphans’ any good?

In Order of the Phoenix, how did Voldemort manage to implant / create the fake dream in Harry’s mind — the one of Sirius being tortured?