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

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 ...

Highlights among the year’s novels, short-story collections and works in translation, as selected by the staff of The Washington Post’s Book World.

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.

Edwin Frank’s history of the modern novel, Stranger than Fiction, balances its erudition with plenty of gossip on Proust, ...

To commemorate the Holodomor, or genocide by famine, Kyiv Post presents for the first time in English an excerpt of Vasyl ...

Decades after his first visit to a Sylvia Plath archive, Peter Steinberg has edited the book he dreamt of from the beginning: ...

This year, established manga publishers jostled on the shelves with prestige graphic novel publishers, prose publishers ...

During the war years he studied Polish literature at the city’s clandestine ... is one of the great poems of the 20th century. The poem can be read by itself, and even by itself its force ...

November 25, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, marks the beginning of 16 Days of Activism ...

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