Literary Companions, Book Reviews & Guides

Henry David Thoreaus interest in Native Americans is widely known and a recurring topic of scholarly attention, yet it is also a source of debate. ...

Henry David Thoreaus interest in Native Americans is widely known and a recurring topic of scholarly attention, yet it is also a source of debate. ...

Brings Machiavellis wisdom to bear on the myriad crisispolitical, environmental, cultural, viralthat loomed in both his time and our own.

Brings Machiavellis wisdom to bear on the myriad crisispolitical, environmental, cultural, viralthat loomed in both his time and our own.

A literary critic aspires to eloquence, though makes no pretense to mirror the sublimity of the monuments inspiring his endeavors. Poets express th...

Best-sellers are the books that sell well, are read by large numbers of people, and are widely talked about in the media and among readers. Yet the...

Arguably, all of Guatemalan writer Eduardo Halfons fictional works deal with quandaries of translation, even in their original versions. The award-...

Arguably, all of Guatemalan writer Eduardo Halfons fictional works deal with quandaries of translation, even in their original versions. The award-...

A beautiful, thoughtful guide to finding your perfect next read, no matter what lifes throwing at you, from the founder of Aphra a.k.a...

This edition of PLCS 40-41 focuses on the personal experience and literary production of male and female writers whose lives have passed in differe...

A collection of innovative examinations of embodiment in Miltons oeuvre that challenge assumptions about disciplinary boundaries This volume brings...

The study of the full career of an award-winning writer who evolved from traditional to radicalAmong the most celebrated American poets of the past...

'A MARVEL' PHILIP PULLMAN Can you remember the first time you fell in love with a book? The stories we read as children matter. The best ones are...

What were the consequences of Tolstoy's unusual reliance on members of his family as source material for War and Peace? Did affection for close rel...

Los Angeles Review of Books is a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting and disseminating rigorous, incisive, and engaging writing on every ...

Debora Vogel (1900-1942) wrote in Yiddish unlike anyone else. Yiddish, her fourth language after Polish, Hebrew, and German, became the central veh...

Debora Vogel (1900-1942) wrote in Yiddish unlike anyone else. Yiddish, her fourth language after Polish, Hebrew, and German, became the central veh...

There is no shortage of explanations for the longevity of Defoes Robinson Crusoe, which has been interpreted as both religious allegory and frontie...

The original edition of Salonnières, Furies, and Fairies, published in 2005, was a pathbreaking work of early modern literary history, exploring wo...

Although Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird has attracted a great deal of scholarly and popular attention due to its e...