*Sorry, but I'm afraid that critics will have to empty clip after clip of rounds into the carcass of the thing and it's still gonna squirm. *Entertaining reading ...

Self-consciousness, self-reflexivity [1] and metafiction are terms often used to describe a particular characteristic common to postmodern fiction. Robert Alter has defined the “self-conscious novel” ...

Since the early 1960s, there has been no more prevalent filter through which to interpret American culture than Postmodernism, an idea whose malleability gives it an ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. With a plot featuring accidental dismemberment, death by leeches, serial arsonists, and rampant child abuse, A Series of ...

The paranoia-inducing The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon is best paired with a room temperature watermelon wine cooler, which should be preceded by licking two hits of LSD off an official United ...

John Barth, a novelist who crafted labyrinthine, fantastical tales that were at once bawdy and philosophical, placing him on the cutting edge of the postmodern literary movement, died April 2. He was ...