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 ...

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 ...

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

Diving into literature by and about LGBTQ+ voices opens a window to diverse experiences, fostering empathy and understanding.

This week’s installment tests your knowledge of 20th-century novels featuring memorable romantic couples — some of whom faced more obstacles in love than others. In the five multiple-choice ...

“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 ...