Surveys the major literary trends in prose and poetry from 1900 to the present in the Anglo-American tradition of modern, postmodern, and contemporary literature. Provides students with a grounding in ...

Queer literature isn’t just a modern phenomenon; it boasts a rich and diverse history that spans centuries. From the lyrical ...

Novelist Saul Bellow, shown shortly after he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1976, ... "For my money, he is the greatest 20th-century prose writer," Wood says.

It was poetry and prose all mixed together that bounced along to a head-nodding, foot-tapping cadence. My copy of On the Road was a Penguin 20th Century Classics edition, with a pale-blue spine.

Bookshelf ‘The Collected Prose of T.S. Eliot’ Review: Keeper of the Flame T.S. Eliot was not only one of the most important 20th-century poets—he defined what poetry of the era ought to be.

Stranger Than Fiction’s lasting achievement is to show how the 20th-century novel — that sprawling, capacious, international form — still informs not just how we read and write, but how we live.

Snapshots: 20th Century Mother-Daughter Fiction. David R. Godine Publisher, $24.95 (256pp) ISBN 978-1-56792-114-4 ...

“Think, Write, Speak” collects Vladimir Nabokov’s interviews and incidental prose. “The Bad Side of Books” collects D.H. Lawrence’s most memorable essays.

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.

Saul Bellow, one of the 20th century's great writers, was born 100 years ago next month. The publishing world is marking the anniversary with a flurry of books — a Library of America edition of ...

Saul Bellow, one of the 20th century's great writers, was born 100 years ago next month. The publishing world is marking the anniversary with a flurry of books — a Library of America edition of ...