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 ...

The joy of a book such as "Stranger Than Fiction" is in getting a warm invitation to see into the readerly world of author ...

Recently, I picked up a book to distract myself from my phone, which was blowing up with social media alerts, election ...

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.

the editorial director of New York Review Books and founder of its NYRB Classics series, explores twentieth-century novels through a personally chosen and idiosyncratic list of 32 titles (that ...

In the Book Pages Q&A, we hear from the publishing icon and author of the new book, “Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the ...

“My own formulation, the twentieth-century novel,” he writes ... many of which are works in translation and not obvious classics of the era. It hardly matters, though; Frank does an ...