Literary Essays

An intimate and hopeful collection of meaningful, smart, funny, sad, emotional, and inspiring essays from todays authors and advocates about what i...

For Cardinal Francis George, the Catholic Church is not a movement, built around ideas, but a communion, built around relationships. In A Godly Hum...

Nathan Brachers François Mauriac on Race, War, Politics, and Religion: The Great War Through the 1960s, consists of a selection of some ninety edit...

A literary legend's engaging review of his career, stressing the work he never completed, and why. Over seven decades, John McPhee has set a stand...

'We live within a spectacle of empty clothes and unworn masks'In this series of remarkable pieces from across his career, John Berger celebrates an...

The first introduction of the seminal writings of a key Belgian writer and critic to an English-speaking audience.Radically subjective. Radically u...

'The feeling that the very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world ... this prospect frightens me much more than bombs'On the 70th a...

One of the most sinuous stylists and searching minds of the twentieth century.Washington Post Forty essays on history, art, and literature to lift ...

Christopher Bollas presents us with a new literary form in his Conversations: twenty-three unique dialogues to captivate, amuse, and inspire. The ...

It is impossible for me to write about the imagination; it is like asking a fish to describe the sea, Mary Ruefle announces at the start of her ess...

Four Lectures by Lisa Jarnot is the seventh book in the Bagley Wright Lecture Series, comprising autobiographical essays that form an intimate, unc...

'Every essay in this book is magnificent... Mesmerizing.' New York Times'How we interact with animals has preoccupied philosophers, poets, and natu...

Celebrate the human-feline bond with all its joys, mysteries, and life-changing moments.  Gwen Cooperauthor of the blockbuster bestseller Homer's ...