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 ...

This original book brings a fascinating and accessible new account of the tumultuous history of sexuality in Europe from the waning of Victorianism to the collapse of Communism and the rise 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.

These two stories—of the Norths, their neighbors, and their congregation, Friendship Baptist; and of the White members and ...

Bacteria-eating viruses called bacteriophages are drawing new interest, Lina Zeldovich writes in "The Living Medicine." ...

The war dragged on for eight bloody years, diminishing much of Iran's resources and capital, but at the end of the 20th century, the Islamic Republic was established and the long history of monarchy ...

Listening to the Twentieth Century” as a model, Frank’s book (published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, the same imprint as Ross’) makes the case for what, exactly, a 20th century novel is ...