The New Yorker

On Killing Charles Dickens, by Zadie Smith

I did everything I could to avoid writing my historical novel. When I finally started “The Fraud,” one principle was clear: no Dickens.

The New Yorker

The Novelist Whose Inventions Went Too Far

After the Afro-Cuban writer H. G. Carrillo died, his husband learned that almost everything the writer had shared about his life was made up—including his Cuban identity.