Elizabeth Fifer

Elizabeth Fifer is a professor of English (emerita) at Lehigh University. She writes on contemporary world literature.

The Fiction of Natalia Ginzburg: “We’re All Unreliable and Broken”

August 21, 2019 | Elizabeth Fifer

Readers of Natalia Ginzburg’s masterful autobiographical novel Family Lexicon (1963; Eng. 2017) will welcome New Directions’ 2019 reissues of her novels The Dry Heart (1947; Eng. 19...
Love and Sexuality in the Fallen World of Ma Jian

Spring 2019
Elizabeth Fifer

PHOTO: Alexandru Acea/Unsplash Reviewing Ma Jian’s three-decades-long career, Elizabeth Fifer traces the banned and exiled Chinese writer’s deepening critique. A newly translated work...
Dead Reckoning: The Darkening Landscape of Contemporary World Literature

March 2017
Elizabeth Fifer

Marcus Jansen, When the Cowboys Came, 2012, mixed media on canvas. llustration: Artist Rights Society, (ARS) New York VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn Courtesy: Unit A Studio and Residency Dystop...