historical fiction
History as Accretion and Excavation
Paul Gleason on Joseph McElroy's mid-career epic, Women and Men, as contrasted with Don DeLillo's Underworld.
Memory and Oblivion: The Historical Fiction of Rikki Ducornet, Jeanette Winterson, and Susan Daitch
Lisa Joyce critiques the rash of historical fiction by women, circa 1996.