Nicholas Lezard

Stories about stories

Javier Cercas’s The Blind Spot is a charming, thoughtful essay — but you’ll need to be steeped in his own fiction to follow the argument

  • The Blind Spot: An Essay on the Novel

    Javier Cercas

    Maclehose Press, pp. 176

  • Elements of Surprise: Our Mental Limits and the Satisfactions of Plot

    Vera Tobin

    Harvard, pp. 244

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