Written by THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOKS STAFF July 14, 2024 Literature has always reflected society, and as the Book Review’s survey “100 Best Books of the 21st Century” reveals, many titles on ...

That is the history of Buffalo’s twentieth century, an unparalleled relationship of industry and art; Milton Rogovin’s photographs of steelworkers and barroom poetry readings. The teaching and writing ...

Abdulrazak Gurnah, a Tanzanian-born British novelist, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2021. His works often delve into themes of displacement, colonialism, and cultural identity ...

But it soon expands into something bigger, more charming and ambitious, encompassing the most serious themes of the 21st century while ... figure in American literature, almost gleefully ...

The very first idea that the literature of the 21st century speaks of is that woman does not want to be considered a sex object and that she needs a friend to be cared for in all thick and thin.

He noted that many novels from the region convey themes of diaspora ... selected the 50 most important novels of the 21st century to help Arabic literature reach a wider international audience ...