Literary Essays

Rich girl, street punk, lost girl and icon ... scholar, stripper, victim and media-whore: The late Kathy Acker's legend and writings are wrapped in...

For many years, Ana Maria Spagna has stayed put, mostly, in a small mountain valley at the head of a glacier-carved lake. Youre so lucky to live th...

In Praise of Disobedience draws on works from a single miraculous year in which Oscar Wilde published the larger part of his greatest works in pros...

Be with me alwaystake any formdrive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Thus does Heathcliff beg his dead Cathy in...

In This Fish Is Fowl Xu Xi offers the transnational and feminist perspective of a contemporary glocalized American life. Xus quirky, darkly comic, ...

A selection of witty and provocative essays from the father of New Journalism, Gay Talese's Frank Sinatra Has a Cold and Other Essays is published ...

A beautifully written, deeply provocative inquiry into the intersection of animal and disability liberation and the debut of an important new socia...

FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF WHAT I LOVED AND A WOMAN LOOKING AT MEN LOOKING AT WOMEN'Richly intelligent insights on every page' ...

This is a book about remoteness: a memoir of places observed in solitude, of the texture of life through the quiet course of the seasons in the far...

Written by a talented and diverse group of South African women, this collection conveys love in its various forms: romantic love, love of family, l...

Summer is fireflies and sparklers. Fat red tomatoes sliced thin and salted. Lemonade and long dreamy days. The treasures of the season are gone muc...

The most literary gift of the year: a beautiful hardback collection of archive gems from the London Review of Books, published to celebrate their 4...

A selection of extracts documenting the friendship between Louis Bouilhet and Gustave Flaubert.

Even on holiday, sex and death are Jean-Philippe Toussaint s constant companions...

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF LAST ORDERS AND MOTHERING SUNDAY, and reissued for the first time in Scribner, a brilliant collection of essays, as ...

This book is a collection of non-fiction by the prolific author Zakes Mda. It showcases his role as a public intellectual with the inclusion of pub...

Morris's intimate journals, written for a friend, unconsciously explore questions of travel, noting his reaction to the idea of leaving or arriving...

This book is concerned with the complex and uncertain nature of twentieth century poetry and poetics. Dealing with such major figures as Lorca, Ril...

My father hovers in the aperture of a glistening window, suicide botched by his mother's ghost. Numbers from his slide rule pause on the sill, fall...