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't — and indeed can't be — comprehensive.

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’t — and indeed can’t be — comprehensive.

It is in this century that we first begin to see books illustrated with colored photography The aims and innovations of both groups eventually resulted in the creation of the Bauhaus, a group or ...

Frank thinks so: in his view, the twentieth-century novel is a distinct literary genre, and his book is an ambitious, intelligent, and happily unpretentious effort to map it.

In “Stranger Than Fiction,” Edwin Frank maps a path from Dostoyevsky to Sebald, finding mystical power and surprising ties among 20th-century writers.

STORY BEHIND THE BOOK Edwin Frank asks what we can learn from the novels of the 20th century The editor of New York Review Books looks at a century of literature.

Her account instead fixes on the collision between two early 20th-century phenomena, Parker and Hollywood, neither nice to be around, despite the surface glitter attached to both.

Imagine the novel itself as a character in a story, as Edwin Frank does in his exciting literary study “Stranger Than Fiction.” At the start of the 20th century, change is the order of the day.

20th Century British Studies covers canonical texts as well as popular culture, postcolonial studies and cultural studies.

For Frank, the 20th-century novel is not just a historical category: it’s an aesthetic and ethical one too, having something to do with ordinariness and the everyday, with literature that is as ...

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't — and indeed can't be — comprehensive.