Literary Companions, Book Reviews & Guides

The medical humanities are becoming increasingly important as their first wave is interrogated by a critical approach that aims to uncover the wide...

The Bronte family produced and consumed art across a range of media and genres. Haworth Parsonage and the local region proved a crucible of inspira...

In this lucid and original study, first published in 1972, Ralph Berry discusses the ten comedies that run from The Comedy of Errors to Twelfth Nig...

This book, first published in 1991, supplies a neglected cultural context for T. S. Eliot’s writings of the 1930s and 1940s, particularly Four Quar...

Condition Red collects writing by one of America’s most gifted and revered poets, Yusef Komunyakaa. While themes from his earlier prose collection,...

The essays in this volume have all been carefully chosen by Cynthia Chase to exemplify the most important strands in contemporary critical thought ...

It has long been recognised that there is an apparently paradoxical relationship between the revolutionary poetic style developed by Yeats, Eliot a...

The purpose of this collection, which was first published in 1996, is to provide both an overview of the major critical approaches to the Four Bran...

Learning Legacies explores the history of cross-cultural teaching approaches, to highlight how women writer-educators used stories about their coll...

Continuities, first published in 1968, is a collection of reviews by Frank Kermode that appeared from 1962 to 1967. Kermode discusses a variety of ...

This is the third of a three-volume set on medieval scholarship that presents original biographical essays on scholars whose work has shaped mediev...

First published in 1988, this annotated selection of Wilfred Owen’s poetry and prose provides a comprehensive one-volume text of his best work. As ...

First published in 1972, this is the first detailed study of the milieu of the eighteenth-century literary hack and its significance in Augustan li...

This volume is a comprehensive overview of scholarship on this play. It includes chapters on criticism, sources and background, textual studies, b...

The late Harry Levin had an international reputation as the world's foremost comparatiste, and he was among the most knowledgeable Shakespeare sch...

First published in 1990, this title provides a compendium of useful information for any reader of Donne to have at hand: crucial biographical mater...

First published in 1988, this annotated selection of Wilfred Owen’s poetry and prose provides a comprehensive one-volume text of his best work. As ...

First published in 1990, this title provides a compendium of useful information for any reader of Donne to have at hand: crucial biographical mater...

A collection that includes a lengthy introduction describing historical trends in critical interpretations and theatrical performances of Shakespea...

Robert Browning, the great Victorian poet, is often claimed to be hard to understand, largely on account of the obscurity of his language, the comp...

'Radical, intrepid, compendious, /A Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures/, goes far toward restoring 'postcolonialism' to its historica...

Siam's folk epic of love, war, and tragedyKhun Chang Khun Phaen is one of the most famous works of old Thai literature. The plot is a love story, s...

The Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly Journal "No Crisis" issue considers the state of critical thinking and writing -- literary interpretation...

The Los Angeles Review of Books launched as online-only magazine in April 2011 to revive the great American tradition of the long form literary and...

The Los Angeles Review of Books launched in April of 2011 as a humble Tumblr, with a 2600-word essay by Ben Ehrenreich entitled "The Death of the B...

The Los Angeles Review of Books launched in April of 2011 as a humble Tumblr, with a 2600-word essay by Ben Ehrenreich entitled "The Death of the B...

Why be frightened of the most wonderful collection of tales ever written?  No Fear: The Canterbury Tales makes it simple for students to love Chauc...

Willa Cather’s twelfth and final novel, Sapphira and the Slave Girl, is her most intense fictional engagement with political and personal conflict....

Pericles: Critical Essays brings together the most essential critical essays and theatrical reviews of Shakespeare's play from the late 17th centur...

This volume is a comprehensive collection of critical essays on The Taming of the Shrew, and includes extensive discussions of the play's various p...

This essay collection offers a lengthy introduction describing trends in criticism and theatrical interpretation of As You Like It. Twenty-six majo...

Lothario’s Corpse unearths a performance history, on and off the stage, of Restoration libertine drama in Britain’s eighteenth and early nineteenth...

Jeffrey B. Ferguson is remembered as an Amherst College professor of mythical charisma and for his long-standing engagement with George Schuyler, c...