#  The Novel 

 



The novel is what drew me to study literature, and it remains central to everything I do. In addition to teaching survey courses on the nineteenth-century British and the nineteenth-century American novel, I have begun teaching a seminar on the post-2000 novel. I’m struck by the extent to which contemporary novelists think of themselves as returning to the nineteenth century, as resuming formal and ethical projects begun more than a hundred years ago. I’ve begun exploring what these novelists are trying to do in a number of book reviews, some published by the *[London Review](/publications/rev-march) [of Books](/publications/rev-emperors-children)*, some by [*n+1*](/publications/rev-tom-mccarthy), some by [*Public Books*](http://www.publicbooks.org/).