Literary Companions, Book Reviews & Guides

The familiar story of Delta blues musician Robert Johnson, who sold his soul to the devil at a Mississippi crossroads in exchange for guitar virtuo...

We live in a world of talk. Yet Race Sounds argues that we need to listen morenot just hear things, but actively listenparticularly in relation to ...

A Road Course in Early American Literature: Travel and Teaching from Atzlán to Amherst explores a two-part question: what does travel teach us abou...

Part memoir, part courtroom drama, part primer for fighting assaults on free speech, Stifled Laughter, the revised edition, is the story of one wom...

2020 George Freedley Memorial Award Special Jury Prize from the Theatre Library Association 2021 PROSE Awards Finalist, Music & the Performing ...

L'Etranger (The Stranger) by Albert Camus is one of the most read twentieth-century novels and is studied around the world. This workbook provides ...

In the fall of 1959, Harpers Magazine published a special supplement on the state of writing and the American literary scene. The supplement was gr...

From Voltaire to Verlaine and from Hugo to Hemingway, these are the Paris locations that have influenced modern literature. The book is a...

What is The Tiger Who Came to Tea really about? How is Meg and Mog related to Polish embroidery? And why does death in picture books involve bein...

J.R.R. Tolkien is an author beloved by many, but people forget the hostile reception of his work from several literary critics, who despised (a...

While humans have used their hands to engage in combat since the dawn of man, boxing originated in Ancient Greece as an Olympic event. It is one of...

The 1930s is frequently seen as a unique moment in British literary history, a decade where writing was shaped by an intense series of political ev...

Literature has been essential to shaping the notions of human personhood, good life, moral responsibility, and forms of freedom that have been cent...

This ambitious literary history traces the American novel from its emergence in the late eighteenth century to its diverse incarnations in the mult...

Literature has been essential to shaping the notions of human personhood, good life, moral responsibility, and forms of freedom that have been cent...

Saul Bellow is one of the most influential figures in twentieth-century American literature. Bellow's work explores the most important cultural and...

Richly researched and engagingly written, Political Affairs of the Heart traces the emergence of female sentimental travel writing in late eighteen...

The turn of the seventeenth century was an important moment in the history of English criticism. In a series of pioneering works of rhetoric and po...

The essays in Strange Science examine marginal, fringe, and unconventional forms of scientific inquiry, as well as their cultural representations, ...

What Persists contains eighteen of the nearly fifty essays on poetry that Judith Kitchen published in The Georgia Review over a twenty-five-year sp...