Steven Millhauser, one of the most original novelists to emerge in the 1970s, was born on 3 August 1943 in New York and grew up in Connecticut where his father, Milton Millhauser, was an English professor at the University of Bridgeport. Millhauser recei...

Until you've finished The Knife Thrower and Other Stories, and its parallels with the real world have become evident, the tales seem unaware of that world at all. So clear, ingenuous and monadic do they feel that they seem to have been composed...

When we learned that Hensch, the knife thrower, was stopping in our town for a single performance at eight o'clock on Saturday night, we hesitated, wondering what we felt. Hensch, the knife thrower! Did we feel like clapping our hands for joy, like...