Edwin Frank has for the past 25 years been editorial director of NYRB Classics, the beloved cult publishers whose list feels like the product of a single, idiosyncratic sensibility. This makes him ...

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 ...

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.

This chapter considers how the zonbi has served twentieth-century Haitian writers as a valuable trope through which to account for and contest the horrors of everyday life under and in the wake of ...

1 Demonstrate critical understanding of some major twentieth-century authors and texts in the genres of prose fiction and poetry. 2 Locate these texts in the contexts of literary modernism or ...