
The People We Know Best
Readers love fictional characters almost as if they were real people. Literary scholars are just starting to take them more seriously.
Character: Three Inquiries in Literary Studies
by Amanda Anderson, Rita Felski, and Toril Moi
Character: The History of a Cultural Obsession
by Marjorie Garber
Character as Form
by Aaron Kunin, with illustrations by David Scher
Balzac’s Lives
by Peter Brooks
March 25, 2021 issue