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

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

Check if you have access via personal or institutional login Twentieth Century Classics is a collection of essays on 20th-century English society through surveys of leading prose writers of that ...

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't — and indeed can't be — comprehensive.

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 ...