This is the first of two volumes in which Christopher Bigsby offers extended critical readings of the work of the leading dramatists and theatre groups in twentieth ... this century drama has emerged ...

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 ...

To cope, Dirda recommends literature: “There certainly will ... Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel, is being published this week. It explores how the novel has mirrored ...

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 ...

A new adaptation of The Piano Lesson updates the playwright’s convictions about how legacies are passed down through ...

Brad DeLong’s sweeping history in Slouching Towards Utopia chronicles a century of unprecedented economic progress driven by ...

The incidence of childhood type 1 diabetes increased worldwide in the closing decades of the 20th century ... A search through the early literature revealed a number of useful but neglected ...