Critical Miniatures

The Art of Compression

Richard Hughes Gibson

The very short story can conjure a fiction out of almost nothing.

Wonder-Working Powers

Richard Hughes Gibson

Philosophers are not the only cultivators of wonder.

On Fiction’s Lawlessness

Richard Hughes Gibson

If there is a war between database and narrative in Cervantes and Sterne, it is a merry one.

Cosmogonies

Richard Hughes Gibson

Fiction writers are world builders.