She was at her best and most influential in short fiction.

"Some of the best fiction is written in bid books."

Their novels "represent the best fiction of the past 25 years."

Like all of Morrison's best fiction, this is a village novel.

The book shares that uncanny effect with the best fiction.

And like the best fiction it's alive with implications that reach beyond the immediate story.

But this is always the hallmark of the best juvenile fiction.

But it works better intellectually than in the gut, where the best fiction has to make its presence felt.

It is, however, history that moves one in the way that only the very best fiction can.

In the best fiction, plot is inseparable from character development and general meaning of a story.