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 ...

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

Now Frank has written a book of his own, “Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel.” Taking Alex Ross’ 2007 book “The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century ...

Miriam Udel, associate professor of German studies, and London Evans, director of the Tam Institute of Jewish Studies at ...

In the long-awaited Netflix adaptation of “One Hundred Years of Solitude” (“Cien Años de Soledad”), the literary masterpiece ...

In her 1937 novel “Their Eyes Were Watching God,” Zora Neale Hurston tells the story of Janie, a woman trying to define ...

The 'Babel' cinematographer’s first feature as filmmaker hops back and forth in time to transition between crime drama and ...

Here are the year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, chosen by the staff of The New York Times Book Review.

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.

And Paul Nitze, Reagan’s senior advisor on arms control, was both an architect and implementer of that strategy. Nitze, ...