The Archive

Essays & Notes

Reflections on historical fiction, political memory, archival research, and the craft of writing about the past.

Metafiction as a Form of Mourning

When the historical novel turns inward and examines its own construction, it does not abandon truth — it pursues a deeper kind of honesty about what fiction can and cannot recover.

January 2024Read

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Writing Complicity Without Judgment

The hardest thing in historical fiction is not the villain — it is the ordinary person who looked away. How do you render complicity with empathy and without absolution?

May 2023Read