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In “Stranger Than Fiction,” Edwin Frank maps a path from Dostoyevsky to Sebald, finding mystical power and surprising ties among 20th-century writers.

The question Edwin Frank asks in his new book, “Stranger Than Fiction ... “The writers of the twentieth century are ambushed by history” is how Frank puts it. “They exist in a world ...

Orlando Reade’s fascinating history of John Milton’s epic shows that Paradise Lost may still be a poem for our times, writes ...

Nathan Gorelick traces literary criticism and psychoanalysis to their shared origins during the 17th and 18th centuries.

The largest and longest-lasting society formed by people who escaped slavery and their descendants endured for a century in ...

Medicare and Social Security represent successes in facing the realities of aging, but their imperfections also show how much ...

Indian academia is sometimes unfairly maligned because it was not designed for the decentralised, instantaneous information transmission of the 21st century.

Margaret Davis is, admittedly, a book lover. But while that might suggest an ulterior motive for organizing a book festival, ...

The New Zealand novelist Catherine Chidgey ought to be much more celebrated in this country than she is. Do not be put off by the fact that The Axeman’s Carnival (Europa, £14.99) is narrated by ...