From the Brontë sisters to Kurt Vonnegut to Zora Neale Hurston, these are the best classic books to add to your TBR this year ...

Combining elements of fantasy with highly detailed, realistic settings, magical realism books center humanity through the normalization of the fantastical. Spanning countries and traditions ...

Books & the Arts / In The Empusium, the Polish novelist’s first novel since her Nobel, she pays homage to Thomas Mann in order to redraw the boundaries of the realist novel. Jess Cotton In his 1956 ...

In his 1956 study The Meaning of Contemporary Realism, the Marxist philosopher and literary critic Georg Lukács distinguished between two literary traditions. Comparing the works of Thomas Mann ...