It is also a thumbnail biography of one of America's master storytellers, writer Raymond Carver. That there was so much more to Carver than the brutal facts of his life is the substance of a rich ...

Raymond Carver, John Updike—many of whom made their debuts in the magazine. Continuing in this tradition, The Atlantic is today launching a new Fiction section, which marks a commitment to ...

Disclaimer: Yes, I've already covered a Raymond Carver book in this column, and a literary biography. But I make no apologies – they're worthy, and I love what I love. Besides, I don’t think ...

The American short story writer and poet Raymond Carver was inspired by the Russian great Anton Chekov. As he told the Paris Review in 1983, five years before his death from lung cancer ...