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 ...

100 Best Books of the 21st Century: As voted on by 503 novelists, nonfiction writers, poets, critics and other book lovers — ...

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.

“My own formulation, the twentieth-century novel,” he writes, “is perhaps best taken as a useful fiction for considering how fiction responded to a century of fact, and though the books ...

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This month, pile your nightstand with a biography of one of TV's greatest stars, a look inside the grand homes of early 20th-century England ... T&C's picks for the best books of November 2024.

Comics are famously adept at visibly rendering the mechanics of time. Many of the best graphic novels of 2024 revel in that very capacity, dwelling on the way stories move between generations ...