The strangely short history of a publishing niche. The smallest book in the world is on display at the Frankfurt Book Fair, 1961. (Photo by Keystone / Getty Images) As an English professor, I’m often ...

Author, broadcaster and literary critic Chris Power has read more than 150 novels in seven months as one of the judges for ...

The scene: a graduate seminar in literature sometime in the eerily becalmed days of the mid-1990s, when for an aspirant to an academic job, the future seemed poised to break in one of two ...

Ian McEwan’s excellent What We Can Know is set in a UK largely swallowed up by rising seas. Emily H. Wilson explores the ...

A glorious adaptation of the Alexandre Dumas classic “Count of Monte Cristo” hits Bay Area movie screens this week. And should you want to stay home after ringing in 2025, turn to Netflix for the ...