Literary Companions, Book Reviews & Guides

Revealing episodes in the life of the elusive writer, as told by acquaintancesThis book collects reminiscences by contemporaries, friends, and asso...

This comprehensive collection of Italian tales in English encourages a revisitation of the fairy-tale canon in light of some of the most fascinatin...

This stimulating study of black literature of the 1960s is an analysis of a period of American history through the literary art it produced. In Co...

Contributions by Malin Alkestrand, Joshua Yu Burnett, Sean P. Connors, Jill Coste, Meghan Gilbert-Hickey, Miranda A. Green-Barteet, Sierra Hale, Ka...

This collection of theater writings by the Russian modernist Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky brings his powerful, wildly imaginative vision of theater to ...

During and after the Harlem Renaissance, two intellectual forces --nationalism and Marxism--clashed and changed the future of African American writ...

The essays in this volume address William Faulkner and the issue of race. Faulkner resolutely has probed the deeply repressed psychological dimensi...

A never before published H.D. work, White Rose and the Red is the fictional biography of Elizabeth Siddall, wife of English poet and painter Dante ...

In 1979, the Marxist-Leninist New Jewel Movement under Maurice Bishop overthrew the government of the Caribbean island country of Grenada, establis...

A beautiful photographic stroll around the bookshops, restaurants, literary locations and authors’ neighbourhoods in the Big Apple. ...

Would it surprise you to learn that there was a contemporary of Ernest Hemingway’s who, in his romantic questing and hell-or-high-water pursuit of ...

In the late 1950s, Ted Geisel took on the challenge of creating a book using only 250 unique first-grade words, something that aspiring readers wou...

In 1952, Faulkner noted the exceptional nature of the South when he characterized it as ""the only really authentic region in the United States, be...

Conversations with W. S. Merwin is the first collection of interviews with former United States Poet Laureate W. S. Merwin (b. 1927). Spanning almo...

In the early 1800s, American critics warned about the danger of literature as a distraction from reality. Later critical accounts held that America...

As the most widely read Roman poem in antiquity, the Aeneid was indelibly burned into the memories of generations of Roman school children. In her ...

This study argues that Faulkner's writings about racial matters interrogated rather than validated his racial beliefs and that, in the process of q...

Joan Didion (b. 1934) is an American icon. Her essays, particularly those in Slouching Towards Bethlehem and The White Album, have resonated in Ame...

Addressing texts produced by writers who lived through the Civil War and wrote about it before the end of Reconstruction, this collection explores ...

After the Second World War Gertrude Stein asked a friend's support in securing a visa for Richard Wright to visit Paris. ""I've got to help him, s...

Catching the Torch examines contemporary novels and plays written about Canada's participation in World War I. Exploring such works as Jane Urquhar...