Certain books maintain an evergreen popularity long after they have been published. See if you can uncover the baker’s dozen of 20th-century classics concealed in this short scene — and build ...

Slouching Towards Utopia. By J. Bradford DeLong. Basic Books; 624 pages; $35 and £30. B etween the hot war in Europe and a brewing cold one between America and China, today’s world has a very ...

“After Sappho,” Selby Wynn Schwartz’s debut novel, considers the lives of women artists and intellectuals at the turn of the 20th century. Sappho and her poems anchor Selby Wynn Schwartz’s ...

The book “A History of the 20th Century in 100 Maps” highlights several pivotal events and developments of the 20th century. These include the two World Wars, the Great Depression, ...

There is some hubris in daring to define the key features of a century’s worth of novels, but Edwin Frank admits his book isn’t — and indeed can’t be — comprehensive.

Twentieth-century America emphasized many of the values I hold dear—especially the rule of law. I grew up in San Francisco just after World War II. What I learned then may prove helpful now. I ...

Interview Transcript. Sophia Saliby: Michigan State University saw its first Black graduates more than 100 years ago during the first decade of the 20th century. In the years since, more and more ...

The mid-20th century cultural tastes of American Jews are explored in three new books: “Postwar Stories” by Rachel Gordan, “Write Like a Man” by Ronnie Grinberg and “Carrying a Big ...