It proclaimed that the "Great American Novel" of so many fond anticipations is only a delusion: that a library is required. View Full Article in Timesmachine » Advertisement ...

Any cultural critic can complain, as I did in last weekend’s column, about the lack of creativity in American popular culture ...

There are a handful of apps I recommend for safekeeping that next big American novel. Both Windows and macOS have built-in backup software that works plenty well. I personally use Time Machine on ...

The Great American Read was an eight-part series with viewer participation to select America’s favorite novel, told through the prism of America’s 100 best-loved novels. It investigated ...

Two very different interpretations capture the grandeur, the excess, the carelessness, and the ugliness of Fitzgerald’s great American novel. The real star of the Broadway production is the ...

We look ahead to Friends of the St. Paul Public Library’s yearlong celebration of the St. Paul native’s masterpiece.

May dreamed of writing the great American novel, but life got in the way. During the holidays, Ward had a tradition of giving away children’s booklets to its stores’ Christmas shoppers.

“Nickel Boys” arrives this winter with a Great American Novel atmosphere overshadowing it. The script is adapted from Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book “The Nickel Boys ...