'Mona,' 'Leda and the Swan,' and the Changing Rape Narrative
The Atlantic Why literary novels about wrenching events are taking more and more cues from crime writing Vanessa Saba / Mondadori Portfolio / Getty At the bookstore where I used to work, we shelved fiction in four separate categories. Crime novels shared a wall with speculative fiction; romance had a set of freestanding shelves. The rest of the fiction room was devoted to literary fiction, which, unlike the others, we never identified by genre name. The publishing industry tends to treat literary as a descriptor, a nod to a work’s artistic quality or aspirations. But literary fiction is a ...
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