On three new Jewish books about the Jewish books that helped define the mid-20th century American Jewish community, and why ...

For book lovers and literary enthusiasts, there’s a special thrill that comes from immersing oneself in the world of ...

In the long-awaited Netflix adaptation of “One Hundred Years of Solitude” (“Cien Años de Soledad”), the literary masterpiece ...

In the mid-20th century, American Jewish reading tastes were shaped by the Cold War, assimilation and the gender gap.

Her own rags-to-riches story mirrored those of many of her resilient heroines, and her dozens of novels helped her amass a ...

Great writers in the Trump years need to open up their eyes to take in all of America — not just echo the literary and ...

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.

A poet, scholar and literary critic, she turned a feminist lens on 19th-century writers like Jane Austen and Charlotte Brontë ...

In six of his seven books Hamilton Basso has written of the ... The character: John Applegate, an average American. The scene: his mind. An uneven and diffuse book of ten chapters and 246 pages ...

Nineteenth-century literature and culture have proved a rich field for interdisciplinary studies. Since 1994, books in this series have tracked the intersections and tensions between Victorian ...

What he was really asking was what “being a Jew” meant to him: an emancipated, assimilated European, specifically English, living in the second half of the 20th century, without any religious faith ...