In January of this year, artists Calla Henkel and Max Pitagoff took over a black box theater in Hollywood, right on Santa ...

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 ...

Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music. Georgia Mann plays the best in classical music.

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’s history of the modern novel, Stranger than Fiction, balances its erudition with plenty of gossip on Proust, ...

In his book Why Read the Classics? Italian writer Italo Calvino defined classics as ‘books which, the more we think we know them through hearsay, the more original, unexpected, and innovative we find ...

In 1928, Hans Herbert Grimm published his first and only novel, Schlump. It is the latest offering from the NYRB Classics Book Club. Schlump describes the violence, chaos, and absurdity of World War I ...

The Murderess was first published in 1902 (this translation by Peter Levi appeared in 1983), and is widely acknowledged to be the masterpiece of Greek novelist Alexandros Papadiamantis. It is a sad ...

Advertisement NBC will also feature two beloved animated classics -- "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer," returning to the network where it originally aired in 1964 and "Frosty the Snowman," back on ...

Folks without PS Plus Premium should check their existing library of PlayStation classics as some of them are eligible for a free upgrade. Unfortunately, it’s not always clear which games ...