There is some hubris in daring to define the key features of a century’s worth of novels, but Edwin Frank admits his book isn ...

Highlights among the year’s novels, short-story collections and works in translation, as selected by the staff of The Washington Post’s Book World.

An ambitious new book sees hidden currents linking writers as disparate as Colette, Thomas Mann, D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, Ralph Ellison, and Chinua Achebe.

As they lounged in the salons of 1920s bohemia, Djuna Barnes liked to tell new acquaintances a story from her youth. She ...

1 Demonstrate critical understanding of some major twentieth-century authors and texts in the genres of prose fiction and poetry. 2 Locate these texts in the contexts of literary modernism or ...