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Historical Fiction

  1. book review
    In Wandering Stars, Tommy Orange Writes a New Secret HistoryThe author’s second novel, after the dazzling There There, follows family members who are inheriting more than they know.
  2. book review
    A So-So Franzen Novel Is Still Better Than Most Books. That Said …In Crossroads, too many boring characters are boring in the same way.
  3. a long talk
    Jonathan Franzen Thinks People Can ChangeEven if, as his book Crossroads suggests, it’s nearly impossible to make it stick.
  4. profile
    Rivka Galchen’s Unsettling PowersHer new novel is about a vicious, real-life witch hunt—and she somehow still managed to make it funny.
  5. historical fiction
    Matt Weiner Is Sorry for Mad Men’s Le Cirque Mistake“It was a terrible error.”