Ironic, given so much of the 20th-century political agenda was focused on dismantling the threat of communism. The reality of the Great American Novel is that it puts the country and all its flaws ...

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

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 ...

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

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.

Surveying the relationship between American politics and the twentieth-century novel, this volume analyzes how political movements, ideas, and events shaped the American novel. It also shows how those ...

This is the second volume in Christopher Bigsby's critical history of the important American dramatists and theatrical movements in the twentieth-century. Volume 1 brought ... detail the achievement ...