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 ...

Morrison’s poetic writing style and her drive to tell tales of hardship and strength make her one of the top American novelists of the 20th century. Net Worth: When she died in 2019, people ...

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 is the first of two volumes in which Christopher Bigsby offers extended critical readings of the work of the leading dramatists and theatre groups in twentieth ... this century drama has emerged ...

One of the true American classics ... (1891-1960), became one of the most successful Black woman writers of the first half of ...