Historical fiction shapes our collective memory ... Take the narrator of Nguyen’s The Sympathizer, for example, whose stories of the Vietnam War and its aftermath are the product of ...

Historical fiction sees real-world events used as the backdrop for new stories, and gaming is home to some of the best ...

By Alida Becker I like to define historical fiction in generous terms. Much more than an imaginary escape into bygone times, the best examples can reveal how people and places have changed (or not ...

Historical fiction, by contrast ... now a mini-series by Barry Jenkins — is all these things, and his example has started to seem less lonely. Yaa Gyasi’s “Homegoing” (2016), which ...

Just as science fiction, once dismissed as merely “popular,” has enjoyed increasing acceptance as literary, historical fiction has become widely critically recognized. Like science fiction ...

Historical fiction, as a result ... What I didn't have was the sights and smells. What, for example, did the inside of the War Office look like in 1879? Or what was the experience of steam ...

There is a curious, almost voyeuristic desire to peer into an author’s process. Historical fiction is lived experience, often traumatic, made legible and digestible by the novelist, and people ...

Jane Austen, Louisa May Alcott, and Charlotte Bronte are synonymous with historical fiction romance. However, Black women writers have made a mark in literary history within this genre as well.

Laurie Frankel is a novelist. Her most recent book is “Family Family.” When you’re writing historical fiction, you usually know it. It’s not that historical fiction doesn’t have present ...

Realist historical fictions ... about the rise of Thomas Cromwell—perhaps the paradigmatic contemporary example of such fiction—great historical novels “provide a powerful hallucination ...