Harry Mathews, the great Oulipo initiate (America’s only), completed his skinny, astonishing novel The Solitary Twin in Paris just six months before he died last year, at the age of 86. The Oulipo ...

Dalkey Archive Press, an imprint of Deep Vellum Publishing, will reissue 10 works of fiction and nonfiction by American writer Harry Mathews over the next five years. The publishing program will kick ...

Multiple meanings always simmer under the surface of Harry Mathews’s writing, but in The Solitary Twin, they’re more hidden. Harry Mathews, 1983. (Photograph by Rollie McKenna. Courtesy of Center for ...

“Who can trust a novelist?” The question, posed early in Harry Mathews’s My Life in CIA, befits a book that willfully tests the limits of the reader’s credulity. A semi-fictionalized (or perhaps ...

Harry Mathews and Joseph McElroy met last week to talk—about the writing of fiction, strange maps of New York, and other topics—and celebrate the release of Mathews’s The Human Country: New and ...

We love our cars — that’s a fact. They’re our homes away from home, the canned personification of whatever freedoms we have left to enjoy in these uptight times. But automobiles also reflect popular ...