Listening to the Twentieth Century” as a model, Frank’s book (published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, the same imprint as Ross’) makes the case for what, exactly, a 20th century novel is ...

He lavished more than a decade on this book, inspired by what the music critic Alex Ross did for 20th-century composition in “The Rest Is Noise,” but there’s little sign of strain or ...

The 20th century looms large in this selection of five new historical novels. Momentous events — the sinking of the Titanic, life after World War I, the Hollywood blacklists — shape the lives of ...

This week’s Title Search puzzle highlights 20th-century books that have maintained their evergreen popularity over the decades and are often studied today in literature classes. The titles of 13 ...

As the western world continued to become wealthier, and products and paints became increasingly available in wider ranges, the first half of the twentieth century saw an abundance of books ...

Wouk’s book is nonfiction ... as well as reading tastes, in the 20th century: assimilation and acceptance, gender, the Cold War. Gordan explores how the Holocaust and the establishment of ...