Check if you have access via personal or institutional login Students of twentieth-century literature are familiar with narratives that associate devastating wars with conceptual, societal, and ...

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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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 ...

A search through the early literature revealed a number of useful ... Did childhood diabetes really become more common in the 20th century? If so, when and where did the increase begin?

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 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 ...

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