They are both stuck in the past. Thematically, “Paris in the Present Tense” retreads old ground, albeit in thoughtful, eloquent and sometimes captivating ways. The traditional aspects of the novel ...

She prefaces “The Rupture Tense” with a dedication to her grandmothers, “ continuing, all tenses ”; and she pointedly titles the book’s final section “Present Continuous.” ...

Present Tense is Novel Most books and stories about the past will use past tense to make that time frame clear. But for that reason, the present tense can stand out.

Pity that “ Present Tense” has such a generic title, since Belmin Soylemez’s feature debut is a memorable look at a young woman whose unexpected career as a fortune-teller grants her insight ...

The idea that young writers are defaulting to present-tense narration out of a failure of nerve is not new. William Gass lamented this as a trend in the New York Times Book Review in 1987.