The word in recent days was that an "investigative journalist" might be in line -- with Alice Munro, the eventual winner, and Haru...

Tim Parks, who has a story in the latest Paris Review and a new novel out, The Server , is apparently at work on something that sounds inf...

Over at Open Letters , Liza Birnbaum offers an appreciation of James Agee and in particular of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men , which, despite...

Even the supposedly avant-garde, or "experimental," novel appears stale when set beside the vitality of the contemporary versions ...

Over at The Complete Review , Michael Orthofer has favorably reviewed "Mathematics," the third installment of Jacques Roubaud'...

The New York Times has given its double-review treatment (one in the daily paper , another in the book review , and both raves) to "Re...

At World Literature Today , Warren Motte reviews Emmanuel Carrère's chronicle "Limonov" and accidentally offers up another usa...

Among the great chronicles that, for English-speaking readers, have been mislabeled as novels is Jacques Roubaud's "The Great Fire ...

The Guardian's Nicholas Lezard also got the genre right in his review of Robert Walser's " Berlin Stories ." He writes: ...

The concept of nonfiction literature has become so alien in the English-speaking world that it is always amusing to watch a critic tussling ...

Kudos to The Sunday New York Times Book Review for correctly suspecting that Robert Walser's "Berlin Stories" ( see here ,) i...

That dreadful, crazy If-It's-Literatue-It-Must-Be-Fiction compulsion strikes again in American publishing. The victim this time is Rob...

One of America's most interesting writers, Padget Powell, has brought out a new book, "You & I." But so far it has been r...

After detouring back into fiction (ostensibly) with "Jeff in Venice," the very good Geoff Dyer returns to his exploration of the c...

In France, Annie Ernaux's collected works have been published under the title "Writing Life." Ernaux, best known among Englis...

In the Guardian , Brian Dillon reviews Wayne Koestenbaum's book, "Humiliation," which he calls "an eloquent, fearless and...

We have traditionally turned to poetry for the artful rendering of true experience and sensation. Why cannot prose offer the same? Why do we...

Alain de Botton's newest, "Religion for Atheists: A non-believer's guide to the uses of religion," is coming out in March....

A biography of Joseph Roth, a great chronicler who also wrote the odd novel, is coming out. Its author is the revered translator, Michael Ho...

One of the best collection of chronicles out there is Cees Nooteboom's Nomad's Hotel . In it you will find a chronicle about his pil...

The documentary-maker Errol Morris's book, "Believing Is Seeing (Observations of the Mysteries of Photography)," has been gett...

Literature's genres are echoed in writings' lesser forms, and like a novel, short story or essay, a chronicle can be a piece of writ...

The chronicle is not only very much alive and well and living in France, its is beating all comers. Limonov , Emmanuel Carrère's chronic...

Sub-genres of the chronicle or the essay: the note, the fragment, the diary entry, the maxim, the aphorism, the anecdote, the column, the bl...

The Economist's More Intelligent Life.com has a nicely done chronicle by Julian Barnes concerning his visit to Sibelius's old house...

Reissuing a piece of magazine journalism in book form and calling it an essay adds literary cachet to it, making it seem indeed worthy of ...

Having recently learned about Harry Mount and Notting Hill Editions (the Home of the Essay,) I explored their Web site to find that they pu...

What I call a chronicle, the Portuguese, Spanish and, I believe, Italians call a cronica and the French (along with many other Europeans) a...

Will Self is another fiction writer who has been increasingly drawn to the chronicle form. His "Walking to Hollywood" was picked ...

Finally, someone refers to the chronicle as a genre, even if he doesn't mean to flatter it. In the Observer in England, reviewing Ale...