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.

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.

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

Surveying the relationship between American politics and the twentieth-century novel, this volume analyzes how political movements, ideas, and events shaped the American novel. It also shows how those ...