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 ...

Published since September 1843 to take part in “a severe contest between intelligence, which presses forward, and an unworthy ...

As they lounged in the salons of 1920s bohemia, Djuna Barnes liked to tell new acquaintances a story from her youth. She ...

This year saw plenty of excellent books, as usual, on the 20th century – but the real gems were revelatory examinations of ...

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.

No spoilers here, but Stephen King calls Carrion Comfort "one of the greatest horror novels of the 20th century. Simple as that." We couldn't resist another Stephen King entry on this list ...

Death, monsters, dictators and societal collapse: It’s Halloween, and this week we recommend a handful of books that might ... voice of the 20th century; his greatest coup — as detailed ...