like in last April's New Yorker magazine.

So how goes the novel?

Stories.

My novel?

Graphic novels.

Shahrnush Parsipur.

This novel is much longer than that.

Here's Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye.

In detective novels it goes like this

The novelist wrote several romances.

I like Christie's novels better than Dickens's.

I'm a storyteller.

And when I say, just a story,

I understand you're writing a novel.

Tom is reading a novel.

Well, if you look at any piece of literature written for page, script, or stage, the answer is yes!

You just have to read it.

Aunty thinks they are despicable detective, spy, adventure novels...

Novels? I hate novels. Oh muse, forgive her blasphemy.

That's from The Odyssey.

She is a short story writer.

He is a novelist and artist.

He's reading a novel now.

He's reading a novel right now.

I like love stories.

I love romance novels.

He really likes science fiction novels a lot.

They also have a slightly more ambiguous relationship with it.

This is Oshodi Market in Lagos.

With such narratives to hand, who would read novels?

This novel is more interesting than the one I read last week.

Have you ever read a novel by Shakespeare? Shakespeare wrote a novel?

This novel is difficult to understand.

This novel bores me.

This novel is boring.

Nothing.

He is a novelist and poet.

That novel isn't for children.

Who is the author of the novel?

Who is the author of this story?

He sat up all night reading a novel.

He won fame by the novel.

What is the theme of his latest novel?

What's his most recent novel?

Who's the author of this story?