Literary Essays

Thinking and Practicing Reconciliation asserts that literary representations of conflict offer important insights into processes of resolution and ...

The thoughts, scenes, and observations gathered in this collection written by an aging Elroy Bode concern themselves on the surface with the daily ...

Just because this is a collection of essays about psychics, murderers, strange disappearances, and occult phenomena doesnt mean it isnt funny. With...

I agree with that.... The poetry in the country has become sort of a company affair where support for the arts has just about ruined the arts and t...

Set primarily in Mexico and the American Northwest, yet equally at home with Achilleus on the Trojan plains or with Walt Whitman in his New Jersey ...

A unique blend of memoir, literary appreciation, and travel narrative, Reading Life is a series of interrelated essays tracking the relationship be...

The built and landscaped spaces of colleges and universities radiate and absorb the values of the cultures in which they were created. As econom...

Winifred Holtby, A Woman In Her Time : Critical Essays brings together for the first time a range of scholarly perspectives on one of Britain''s b...

The question of the relation between the visual and the textual in literature is at the heart of an increasing number of scholarly projects, and in...

When all else fails, when our compass is broken, there is one thing some of us have come to rely on: music really can give us a sense of something ...

The first superhero team from the Silver Age of comics, DC's Justice League has seen many iterations since its first appearance in 1960. As the ori...

'Prostitution, gambling, fencing, contract murder, loan sharking, political corruption and crime of every sort were the daily trade in Philadelphia...

What happens when cataracts rob an art critic of his sight? John Berger, whose classic book Ways of Seeing has been in print for fifty years, joins...

While Michael Pollan and others have popularized ideas about how growing ones own food can help lead to environmental sustainability, environmental...

Born in what is now Ukraine to Polish parents, naturalised as a British citizen, and schooled on the high seas of international commerce, Joseph Co...

Reader, you have in your hands a motley collection of essays, personal and critical. The advantage of the heterogeneous essay collection by a singl...