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 ...

NYRB's edition brought the unabridged saga to anglophone readers for the first time, in a masterful translation by Jenny McPhee, and introduced Morante—still criminally underappreciated in the U ...

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

Writing the history of the novel, even covering a limited period, is a challenge. No one could possibly read every novel that ...

And first, a closer look at NYRB editorial director Edwin Frank’s new ‘Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century ...

Recently, I picked up a book to distract myself from my phone, which was blowing up with social media alerts, election prognostications and sweaty-palmed predictions about who the Dodgers might sign ...

We have more MLS Cup Playoff action on Tuesday, with two games scheduled across the United States. Here is what went down in the Eastern and Western Conferences. It was a match full of brilliant ...

I find it interesting that Brookner didn’t publish a novel until 53 and then poured out this massive body of work over the next 30 years. That is one of the most extraordinary things about her ...

The poet Ted Kooser turned 85 this year, and the Pulitzer Prize winner and former poet laureate of the United States is as productive as ever, with Copper Canyon Press putting out his latest ...