Another recurring note, Frank finds, is the 20th century novel’s desire to, as H.G. Wells put it, “get the frame into the picture” and thus explore its own artificiality.

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’t — and indeed can’t be — comprehensive.

Early 20th-Century Painters Took a Radical Approach to Color. ... It is in this century that we first begin to see books illustrated with colored photography.

When Edwin Frank, who founded New York Review Books in 1999 and has run it ever since, read Alex Ross’s 2008 book, “The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century,” he saw it as a ...

20th Century British Studies covers canonical texts as well as popular culture, postcolonial studies and cultural studies. Skip to Content ... we take an approach to the study of 20th-century British ...

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.

Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel by Edwin Frank, Fern Press £25/Farrar, Straus and Giroux $16.99, 480 pages. Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Caf ...

Imagine the novel itself as a character in a story, as Edwin Frank does in his exciting literary study “Stranger Than Fiction.” At the start of the 20th century, change is the order of the day.

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't — and indeed can't be — comprehensive.