In a New York Times article, Elliott Holt writes about how omniscience is making a comeback in contemporary fiction. She writes:
The effects of omniscience are authority and scope; novels with such narrators seem especially confident. The characters may be uncertain, but we sense the controlling force above them. Omniscience reinforces that we are reading fiction. Despite our awareness of its artifice, we surrender to the story.
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