Literary Essays

A Forest on Many Stems: Essays on the Poets Novel provides a unique entrance to the rare prose of many remarkable modern and contemporary poets inc...

Charles R. Kesler, an eminent scholar and prodigious editor, has exerted a profound influence on the study of American politics and the practice of...

We can read The Magician of Vienna not just as a work of literature but as one of the Holy Books in which we store humanity's imaginary. -- Mario B...

These are stories to cherish, as brilliant and charming as the writer himself.Olivia Laing The sensibility of a magician, a trickster's dark humor,...

In Psalm to Whom(e), the restless and astonishing Diane Glancy continues to break new ground with a hybrid collection of personal writings that con...

This delectable book collects the rococo prose of Lisa Robertson. There are essays -- many originally published as catalogue texts by art galleries...

From the self-described 'black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet', these soaring, urgent essays on the power of women, poetry and anger are filled wi...

This volume brings together Lee Pattersons essays published in various venues over the past twenty-seven years. As he observes in his preface, The ...

The 44 essays and other pieces collected in his new book range from Adam Lindsay Gordon to Peter Corris, and include Eleanor Dark, Hal Porter, Chri...

The third installment of Harvards five-volume edition of Robert Frosts correspondence.The Letters of Robert Frost, Volume 3: 19291936 is the latest...

Joan Acocella, one of our finest cultural critics (Edward Hirsch), has the rare ability to examine literature and unearth the lives contained withi...

The 2016 election of Donald Trump to the U.S. presidency was a devastating blow to marginalised people around the country - immigrants, Muslims, th...