Living by Fiction
by Annie Dillard | 
How Novels Work
by John Mullan | 
On Literature
by Umberto Eco | 
The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist
by Orhan Pamuk | 
Aspects of the Novel
by E. M. Forster | 
The Craft of Fiction
by Percy Lubbock | 
How Fiction Works
by James Wood | 
The Broken Estate
by James Wood | 
Daemon Voices
by Philip Pullman | 
Burning Down the House
by Charles Baxter | 
The Fun Stuff
by James Wood | 
The Irresponsible Self
by James Wood | 
A Temple of Texts
by William H. Gass | 
The Great Movies
by Roger Ebert | 
The Liberal Imagination
by Lionel Trilling | 
A Slip of the Keyboard
by Terry Pratchett | 
Reflections
by Diana Wynne Jones | 
Awake in the Dark
by Roger Ebert | 
The Cross of Redemption
by James Baldwin | 
The Faraway Nearby
by Rebecca Solnit |
Kundera brilliantly examines the work of such important and diverse figures as Rabelais, Cervantes, Sterne, Diderot, Flaubert, Tolstoy, and Musil. He is especially penetrating on Hermann Broch, and his exploration of the world of Kafka's novels vividly reveals the comic terror of Kafka's bureaucratized universe.