Edwin Frank has for the past 25 years been editorial director of NYRB Classics, the beloved cult publishers whose list feels like the product of a single, idiosyncratic sensibility. This makes him ...

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

This chapter considers how the zonbi has served twentieth-century Haitian writers as a valuable trope through which to account for and contest the horrors of everyday life under and in the wake of ...

A distinguished judging panel comprising historians Mary Beard, Richard Evans, Sudhir Hazareesingh, Carole Hillenbrand, ...

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.

A newly published collection of Djuna Barnes’s short fiction, I Am Alien to Life ... For all her mingling with the 20th-century greats – Joyce was a friend, T S Eliot her trusted editor ...

Historian Joya Chatterji has won the £50,000 Wolfson History Prize for Shadows at Noon: The South Asian Twentieth Century ...

Patrick Hutchison left city life to live an urbanite’s rural dream. The rest is funny, philosophical, chainsaw-wielding ...

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.

The late 20th century marked a significant turning point as the UAE’s rapid development brought heightened exposure to global ...

Chatterji wins for Shadows at Noon, her genre-defying history of South Asia during the twentieth century. This year's Wolfson History Prize has ...