Literary Essays

Philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre counted among his friends and associates some of the most esteemed intellectuals, writers, and artists of the twentiet...

'Required reading.' - CosmopolitanRemember that moment when you first encountered a character who seemed to be written just for you? That feeling...

A fantastic essayist, the inimitable Muriel Spark addresses here the writing life, cats, favorite writers (the Brontës, T. S. Eliot, Robert Burns, ...

In this accessible and distilled craft guide, acclaimed poet Tony Hoagland approaches poetry through the frame of poetic voice, that mysterious con...

InTomorrow Is Too Late, Grace Maddrell collects testimonies of activism and hope from young climate strikers, from Brazil and Burundi to Pakistan a...

This volume contains a variety of essays about Florida literature and history by scholars from across the state representing every kind of institut...

In this masterful collection of new essays, the apple looks at the tree. Twenty-five writers deftly explore a trait theyve inherited from a parent,...

Inwardness is the condition of being inside. However, this can mean many things: one can be inside himself dealing with his emotions, his projecti...

Flush was an English cocker spaniel who belonged to the nineteenth-century poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Virginia Woolf learned of him from the ...

The essays in this collection discuss how the city is textualized, and address many aspects of how texts and images are written and produced in, an...