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An Air Mail Editor’s Pick A Spectator Book of the Year “[A] masterly panorama of classic Russian literature and its hinterland of ideas.”—Wall Stre...

Books about thinkers require a kind of unity that their thought may not possess. This cautionary statement is especially applicable to Mikhail Bakh...

In this lively gambol through the history of quotations and quotation books, Gary Saul Morson traces our enduring fascination with the words of oth...

In this important and controversial book, one of our leading literary theorists presents a major philosophical statement about the meaning of liter...

Gary Saul Morson’s ideas about life and literature have long inspired, annoyed, and provoked specialists and general readers. His work on “prosaics...

This far-ranging study develops Morson’s concept of “prosaics,” which stresses the importance of ordinary events and the novel’s unique ability to ...

A timely exploration of intellectual dogmatism in politics, economics, religion, and literature—and what can be done to fight itPolarization may be...

In Cents and Sensibility, an eminent literary critic and a leading economist make the case that the humanities—especially the study of literature—o...