Hacker News with Generative AI: 20th Century

Christopher Hill's History from Below (thenation.com)
Christopher Hill was one of the most prolific and influential historians of the 20th century. He was also the product of two specific eras of political and social change: the Old Left’s communist and working-class movements of the 1930s and ’40s, and the New Left’s liberation and countercultural movements of the 1960s and ’70s.

History, 20th Century, Politics, Social Change

14 points by diodorus 39 days ago | 1 comments

The Modern Novel: The world-wide literary novel from early 20th Century onwards (themodernnovel.org)
This website celebrates the world-wide literary novel since approximately the beginning of the twentieth century, arranged by nationality. It is a personal but extensive survey of literary fiction since around 1900, which will continue to grow.

Literature, Novels, 20th Century, History, Literary Criticism

8 points by Caiero 151 days ago | 1 comments

In search of a new 20th-century canon (newstatesman.com)
In Stranger Than Fiction, the American editor Edwin Frank seeks to tell the story of the modern novel through an eccentric, provoking list of 32 books.

Literature, Books, Canon, 20th Century

3 points by lermontov 172 days ago | 0 comments

Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel (thebaffler.com)
Did the novels of the twentieth century accomplish anything? Edwin Frank, who is known for his love of the genre, is convinced they did. In his stylish, selective survey Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel, he focuses on the genre’s formal innovations, which take readers’ minds off their somewhat vulgar appetite for suspenseful plot and relatable character and teach them to be satisfied, instead, with something like a diet of single sentences, exquisitely prepared.

Literature, Novels, 20th Century, Literary Criticism

30 points by samclemens 195 days ago | 1 comments

Risers and Fallers What happened to the intellectual giants of the 20th century? (arnoldkling.substack.com)
Which 20th century intellectuals have higher or lower status today than when they were in their “prime”?

History, Intellectuals, 20th Century, Status, Legacy

3 points by paulpauper 247 days ago | 0 comments

Neal Stephenson's New Novel Traces the Making of a Spy (nytimes.com)
“Polostan” sets up a historical fiction series about espionage and revolution in the early 20th century.

Fiction, Historical Fiction, Espionage, Revolution, 20th Century

13 points by ctoth 255 days ago | 1 comments

Undark and the Radium Girls (2006) (damninteresting.com)

History, Science, 20th Century, Women's History

74 points by not_a_boat 327 days ago | 30 comments

Vivian Maier, One of the Best Street Photographers of the 20th Century (smithsonianmag.com)