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 ...

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

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This week’s installment tests your knowledge of 20th-century novels featuring memorable romantic couples — some of whom faced more obstacles in love than others. In the five multiple-choice ...

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.

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These traits, Frank argues, came to define the novel’s voice in the 20th century. Another feature that crops up again and again is the novel’s new self-awareness and its narrator’s sometimes ...