Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel, Edwin Frank explores how reality has been presented and even transformed through the ...

A portrait of life at a fast-food restaurant shows that there’s both dignity and drudgery in all kinds of labor.

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Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel literature laureate and a giant of Latin American letters for decades, has died, ...

He helped lead the Latin American “boom” of literary fiction in the 1960s, a burst of creativity and stylistic ...

He’s a perceptive reader, and he has a knack for writing about poems in ways that lend shape and even excitement to the act of reading and thinking about them. He’s also comfortable ignoring some of ...

Weiner’s newest release, “The Griffin Sisters’ Greatest Hits,” her 22nd novel, is no exception.

He bounced back big time with editorships at Spy and Vanity Fair, a glamorous life he details in a new memoir.

Great literature sets unrealistic expectations for mere mortals. Laura Piani’s debut balances reality with the effervescent ...

The late political scientist enjoined readers to look for opposition to authoritarian states not in revolutionary vanguards ...

When Lytton Strachey set out to write “Eminent Victorians” in 1918 ... “Great Books,” about reading the literary canon of the ...