In tracking pieces of great American literature from the 19th-21st century, we can identify an overwhelming sense of the loss of true purpose, disembodiment, and dislocation that is rather fitting ...

Every movie fan knows that Jaws and The Godfather made cinematic perfection from literary pulp. But for every one of these ...

Ever wonder what your favorite American author loved to eat? We've rounded up several of America's most famous literary ...

Here are the year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, chosen by the staff of The New York Times Book Review.

The now-beloved book, which centers on a sailor seeking revenge against a sperm whale, was initially met with lukewarm sales, ...

Great writers in the Trump years need to open up their eyes to take in all of America — not just echo the literary and ...

My colleagues and I felt this way over the past few months as we undertook the challenging, thrilling task of assembling a ...

Considered to be one of the great American novels, "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" follows Huck Finn and his friend Tom Sawyer as they travel along the Mississippi River and through the 19th ...

The Great American Read was an eight-part series with viewer participation to select America’s favorite novel, told through the prism of America’s 100 best-loved novels. It investigated ...

Of the five essays that follow, one traces this revival in greater detail, and another sets the book in the context of the perennial quest for the 'great American novel'. Two other essays examine the ...

F. Scott Fitzgerald lamented that The Great Gatsby couldn’t hold a candle to her books. In 1938, Sinclair Lewis called her the greatest living American novelist. The U.S. Post Office once put ...