OnFiction

Humans spend vast amounts of time engaging with fictional stories. There are four main theories that help to explain this love for fiction. ...

Elizabeth Taylor, born in 1912, was one of the most accomplished English novelists of the Twentieth Century. She can be thought of continuin...

Imagine you are given this photograph, and asked to write a fictional character sketch of the man depicted here. This is the task that Ma...

--> Literary fiction has a main concern with character. Literary characters are made up of sets of features that enable us to ...

The story of Haruki Murakami's novel Colorless Tsukuru Tasaki and his years of pilgrimage is that of a quest. In late adolescence, Tsu...

At the Morgan Library in New York, one of the exhibitions is of some of Jane Austen’s letters and some drafts of her fiction. Her letters...

It has been a pleasure this week reading and rereading two articles, written 90 years apart, by authors who are both trying to figure o...

Annie Smart's set design for To the Lighthouse, Berkeley Rep Given my thoughts last week about how understanding experience as...

Maria Popova over at Brain Pickings has a fascinating post on the daily habits of famous writers . By pulling relevant quotes from inte...

The dedication of Rosa Montero’s La loca de la casa (2003) enticingly sets the theme and tone of this beautiful hymn to human imagination...