The first half of the 20th century was a turbulent and transformative period for American and British culture. Women and men began to define themselves in very different ways, and one of the tools ...

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Victor Brombert, the Henry Putnam University Professor of Romance and Comparative Literatures, and an authority on French ...

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 ...

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This week non-fiction triumphed with books looking at the literature of the 20th century, the history of British propaganda ...

An ambitious TV adaptation of one of the most highly regarded novels ever written is out now, but does it do the 20th Century ...