Literary Essays

In this richly varied selection of Tony Harrison's provocative prose of the last fifty years, the great poet of page, stage and screen presents a l...

London has the greatest literary tradition of any city in the world. Its roll-call of story-tellers includes cultural giants who changed the way th...

This book, based on extensive archival and historical work, identifies and brings to light additional and littlerecognized intellectual influences ...

Beginning with the election of Donald Trump (The Loneliest Man in the World) and expanding back and forth into American history, surveillance, viol...

In The Mathematics of the Breath and the Way, Charles Bukowski considers the art of writing, and the art of living as writer. Bringing together a v...

This volume of John Muir's selected writings chronicles the key turning points in his life and study of the American wilderness. The Story of My Bo...

A collection of new and selected essays by the Pulitzer Prize-winner and former Poet Laureate. In addition to being one of America's most famous a...

'We seem to live, intellectually and emotionally, in sealed-off universes,' writes Gabriel Josipovici in an essay on Hebrew poetry in medieval Spai...

This description of the province of Fars, was written around the beginning of the 12th century A.D. The author cites his qualifications for it I w...

[A] splendid collection . . . By turns wry, tender, pointed, and laugh-out-loud funny. Publishers WeeklyUntangles the many truths about hair, and t...

In the library of a country house in Nottinghamshire, Vivian is writing an article about the importance of lying, when he is interrupted by Cyril, ...

George Orwell set out to make political writing into an art, and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature his description...

15 Bytes Book Award 2021 Independent Publisher Book Awards, Gold Medal Winner In English disparate means different or miscellaneousapt descriptors ...

WINNER OF THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST COLLECTION 2015WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR POETRY 2015WINNER OF THE PEN OPEN BOOK AWA...

Long before he was a celebrated poet, Walt Whitman was a working journalist. By the time he published the first edition of Leaves of Grass in 1855,...