One of Bernhard Schlink’s more endearing and effective narrative techniques involves a character’s posing a series of internal questions. Grappling with Ian Buruma’s review of Schlink’s latest novel, ...

I should have had a ready answer at my fingertips (but it was early in the morning and I hadn’t opened my can of Red Bull). I mumbled something about an attempt to impose order on the chaos of the ...

Writing for Narrative Matters. We welcome essays from anyone with a health care story, from doctors and nurses, to patients, children, students, and others. The most successful submissions for ...