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 ...

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

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The book is strange, wise, funny and profound and widely considered to be one of the greatest American novels. 2. A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara (736 pages) This Man Booker Prize shortlisted ...

John Steinbeck. Russian-American novelist Vladimir Nabokov is best known for his novel Lolita, a controversial yet masterfully written story about warped obsession and how depraved the human mind ...

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 ...