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 ...

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 ...

“My own formulation, the twentieth-century novel,” he writes ... many of which are works in translation and not obvious classics of the era. It hardly matters, though; Frank does an ...

In the Book Pages Q&A, we hear from the publishing icon and author of the new book, “Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the ...

The joy of a book such as "Stranger Than Fiction" is in getting a warm invitation to see into the readerly world of author ...

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 editorial director of New York Review Books and founder of its NYRB Classics series, explores twentieth-century novels through a personally chosen and idiosyncratic list of 32 titles (that ...