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 ...

they don’t constitute a particular or recognizable literary tradition. “My own formulation, the twentieth-century novel,” he writes, “is perhaps best taken as a useful fiction for ...

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.

In her 1937 novel “Their Eyes Were Watching God,” Zora Neale Hurston tells the story of Janie, a woman trying to define ...

For students in Laurentian University’s Early 20th Century Theatre class, it means studying the roots of modern drama while ...

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

This year’s Sala coincided with the 12th Africa Century International African Writers Conference, which celebrates the 33rd International African Writers’ Day and 30 years of South Africa’s democracy.

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How Economics Explains the World. By Andrew Leigh. Mariner Books; 240 pages; $26. Published in Britain as “The Shortest ...