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.

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 ...

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.