The genre debate
Writers consider the knotty problem of literary definitions
Genre fiction radiates from a literary centre
In the fourth of our series on literary definitions, novelist Anita Mason argues that while genre novels tell specific kinds of story, literary novels open onto the universal
The genre debate: 'Literary fiction' is just clever marketing
In the third piece in a series on literary definitions, Elizabeth Edmondson argues that Jane Austen never imagined she was writing Literature. Posterity made that decision for her
The genre debate: Science fiction travels farther than literary fiction
Juliet McKenna argues that far from being inferior to literary fiction, science fiction and fantasy can create debate around the most complex political issues
The genre debate: We don't think of Dickens as a historical novelist
In the first of a series on literary definitions, novelist Gaynor Arnold wonders why have separate genres at all. For the convenience of booksellers? For lazy readers?'
