Edwin Frank is somewhat of a legend. The editorial director of New York Review Books and founder of the New York Review Books Classics series, his discernment has helped shape highbrow literary tastes ...

Genres are the Sirens of literary criticism. They seem friendly and alluring, but they are dangerously elusive shape-shifters. You really have to lash yourself to the mast. There is also the problem ...

This is a book for adults and children who have a great imagination.

When Edwin Frank, who founded New York Review Books in 1999 and has run it ever since, read Alex Ross’s 2008 book, “The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century,” he saw it as a challenge.

Novels from the 20 th century, more so than any other, are better known for their adaptations than for the original source material. This is not to say that older books don’t have adaptations, of ...

It’s pretty wild how long Stephen King has been prolific for, as an author. His novels started getting published in the final quarter of the 20th century (well, first one in 1974, but close enough), ...

Imagine the novel itself as a character in a story, as Edwin Frank does in his exciting literary study “Stranger Than Fiction.” At the start of the 20th century, change is the order of the day. Max ...

Welcome to Literary Quotable Quotes, a quiz that challenges you to match a book’s memorable passages with its title. This week’s installment highlights the first lines from best-selling novels ...