historical fiction
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.
History as Accretion and Excavation
Paul Gleason on Joseph McElroy's mid-career epic, Women and Men, as contrasted with Don DeLillo's Underworld.