Is this the most harrowing writer of the 20th century?
As they lounged in the salons of 1920s bohemia, Djuna Barnes liked to tell new acquaintances a story from her youth. She ...
Cambridge University Press25d
Twentieth-Century Literature and the Aftermath of War
Students of twentieth-century literature are familiar with narratives that associate devastating wars with conceptual, societal, and aesthetic upheavals. What these accounts overlook, however, is a ...
Los Angeles Times28d
How novels changed in the 20th century, and why
Edwin Frank is somewhat of a legend. The editorial director of New York Review Books and founder of the New York Review Books Classics series, his discernment has helped shape highbrow literary ...
The New Yorker1mon
Is the Twentieth-Century Novel a Genre?
the twentieth-century novel is a distinct literary genre, and his book is an ambitious, intelligent, and happily unpretentious effort to map it. Frank is not a literature professor, and this is ...
The Post-Journal2d
Sharing Memories
It’s taken nine years for four Panama Central School graduates to complete a book focusing on their memories from the 20th ...
jacobin5d
Brad DeLong’s Long March Through the 20th Century
Brad DeLong’s sweeping history in Slouching Towards Utopia chronicles a century of unprecedented economic progress driven by ...