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 ...

Regarded as one of the greatest novels of the 20th century, it also fared well on the ... inspired him to write what is now hailed as the best war novel ever. A heartbreaking story about the ...

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.

This month, pile your nightstand with a biography of one of TV's greatest stars, a look inside the grand homes of early 20th-century England ... T&C's picks for the best books of November 2024.

“My own formulation, the twentieth-century novel,” he writes, “is perhaps best taken as a useful fiction for considering how fiction responded to a century of fact, and though the books ...