Literary Companions, Book Reviews & Guides

Discover the truths, the history, the myths and the magic behind the first three novels in the spellbinding All Souls series. Fall under the spell ...

One of America's leading authorities on Laura Ingalls Wilder and Rose Wilder Lane combine analyses of both women to explore their collaborative pro...

Winner of four major prizes for the best critical/biographical book related to crime fiction: the Edgar, Anthony, Macavity and H.R.F. ...

In this generous collection of book reviews and literary essays, legendary Village Voice rock critic Robert Christgau showcases the passion that ma...

Even in a genre well known for generating controversy, some true-crime and scandal books have wielded a particular power to unsettle readers, provo...

When an essay is due and dreaded exams loom, here's the lit-crit help students need to succeed! SparkNotes Literature Guides make studying smarter,...

When an essay is due and dreaded exams loom, here's the lit-crit help students need to succeed! SparkNotes Literature Guides make studying smarter,...

When an essay is due and dreaded exams loom, here's the lit-crit help students need to succeed! SparkNotes Literature Guides make studying smarter,...

Through critical readings Gerald Alva Miller, Jr., examines the life of William S. Burroughs and the evolution of his various radical styles not ju...

Is there such a thing as Los Angeles poetry? Laurence Goldsteins Poetry Los Angeles: Reading the Essential Poems of the City opens new windows into...

This special edition of The Oxford Companion to the Brontës commemorates the bicentenary of Emily Brontë's birth in July 1818 and provides comprehe...

This is a critical study of the great British man of letters, G.K. Chesterton, with chapters devoted to the novels, stories, and essays that explor...

The Internet has fundamentally altered our perceptions of narrative and its core components, including authorship, setting, characterization, re...

While all fiction uses words to construct models of the world for readers, nowhere is this more obvious than in fantasy fiction. Epic fantasy no...

In English and American cultures, detective fiction has a long and illustrious history. Its origins can be traced back to major developments in ...

Many of the best-known British authors of the 1800s were fascinated by the science and technology of their era. Dickens included spontaneous hum...

The education system is in crisis. In a recent survey, the United States was ranked sixteenth in literacy among a group of twenty-three developed n...