Edwin Frank has for the past 25 years been editorial director of NYRB Classics, the beloved cult publishers whose list feels like the product of a single, idiosyncratic sensibility. This makes him ...
The first four were novels ... Jewish American literature. Gordan, Mora and Grinberg describe the forces that shaped Jewish identity, as well as reading tastes, in the 20th century: assimilation ...
The 20th century contained some of the finest writers who have ever lived. It was a groundbreaking century in so many ways, not least of all in literature. Many subjects that would have been ...
Stranger Than Fiction is testimony to its author’s sheer appetite for books, and especially for 20th-century fiction at its most testing and ambitious ... Stoner is the story of a man who gives his ...