The novel is what drew me to study literature, and it remains central to everything I do. In addition to teaching survey courses on the nineteenth-century British and the nineteenth-century American novel, I have begun teaching a seminar on the post-2000 novel. I’m struck by the extent to which contemporary novelists think of themselves as returning to the nineteenth century, as resuming formal and ethical projects begun more than a hundred years ago. I’ve begun exploring what these novelists are trying to do in a number of book reviews, some published by the London Review of Books, some by n+1, some by Public Books.