For her new book, “Salvage,” the Trinidadian-born writer Dionne Brand rereads classic English novels, teasing out evidence of the ravages of colonialism. By Sophie Gee Sophie Gee teaches English ...

But what strikes an English reader of the novels which come to him from America — many of them brimming with intelligence — is that those which follow the Joyce or the Lawrence method add to it a sort ...

On a special episode (first released on March 13, 2025) of The Excerpt podcast: There are few writers who have as devoted a following as celebrated English novelist Jane Austen, author of classics ...

Every item on this page was chosen by a Town & Country editor. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. The Castle of Otranto is considered the first supernatural English novel ...

To nominate the 20 greatest novels of all time, even if you’ve spent decades reading and writing about fiction, is far from an easy task. I swapped books in and out of the running for weeks; I was ...

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Two books by Zimbabwean novelist, playwright and filmmaker Tsitsi Dangarembga are some of the latest novels to be translated into Shona. The two titles are part of the trilogy by Dangarembga which ...

IT is fashionable nowadays for young critics in New York and London to take pot shots at each other over the water. The American critic says the Briton is patronizing to American letters — and rat-tat ...