By: Joshua Glenn

21 great adventure novels from 1904–13!

By: Robert Wringham

“Humour can get in under the door while serious­ness is still fumbling at the handle.”

By: Matthew Battles

So long as the coarse texture of pop is not touched by a paltry culture…

By: James Parker

Fiction being (if you’re doing it right) a slower and more ponderous process than journalism, it’s generally the novelists who arrive last at an epochal scene. In Britain, the publication this year of Ian McEwan’s […]

By: Joshua Glenn

The 1864-73 cohort is a lost generation of absurdists and experimenters.