Reflecting on these complex relationships between reader and story, fiction and life, can constitute a form of therapy against the sleep of reason, which generates monsters.

To read fiction means to play a game by which we give sense to the immensity of things that happened, are happening, or will happen in the actual world. By rea…

After all, the cultivated person's first duty is to be always prepared to rewrite the encyclopaedia.

In the United States, politics is a profession, whereas in Europe it is a right and a duty.

Today's novelist is not only limited by the thin subject matter of personal experience, but by the pinched clinical conventions of the Health generation. Faced…

Hysteria has no place in the mind of the sane or the free.

By and large, horror fiction is the most difficult to domesticate because part of the point is that it's one step ahead - or behind - everybody else's taste. A…