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 ...

In the mid-20th century, American Jewish reading tastes were shaped by the Cold War, assimilation and the gender gap.

A newly published collection of Djuna Barnes’s short fiction, I Am Alien to Life, stars rotting corpses, grieving loners and ...

Visionaries of the viewfinder.

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.

Berlin, Berlin showcases a wide range of Newton’s work, from his earliest photographs to his iconic later pieces. The book ...

Edwin Frank’s history of the modern novel, Stranger than Fiction, balances its erudition with plenty of gossip on Proust, ...

Native art has a rich history but young artists want to expand its roots and move things in different directions. What is the ...

This weighty book of lush interior shots selected and ... Edwardian and early 20th century London. On top of that, about half the homes in it no longer exist, not to mention the fading and ...

The important thing to know going into “Maria” is that it’s the third in a trilogy of films directed by the Chilean whirlwind Pablo Larraín that seek to recover the women behind the plaster saints of ...

Thomas Mann’s intellectual masterpiece is interested in time, love, mortality, culture – and the fragility of civilisation.

"This lavish coffee table hardback book is the first and only book of its kind to take a visual journey through the mind and ...