Literary Essays

This book comprises a number of essays on travel-narratives which are somewhat unknown to the general reader. They include writing by people who tr...

The Future is Now: A New Look at African Diaspora Studies is an exciting collection of essays representative of new voices in this ever-expanding f...

This volume explores various facets of the relationship between the fantastic and the fin de siècle. The essays included here examine how the fin d...

Roberto Saviano is best known for his work on the Italian mafia, but Beauty and the Inferno, winner of the European Book Award 2010, also tackles u...

This Young Monster is a hallucinatory celebration of artists who raise hell, transform their bodies, anger their elders and show their audience dar...

This Dialogue of One collects thirteen essays on English, French and American poets by one of the eras most engaging and highly esteemed poet-criti...

What is care? The Care Factory consists of six essays, each of which is an invitation to the reader to form an opinion on what care happens to be. ...

In this bold, fascinating book, Eula Biss addresses a chronic condition of fear fear of the government, the medical establishment, and what may be...

In these essays, the acclaimed artist, photographer, writer, and filmmaker Moyra Davey often begins with a daily encounter - with a photograph, a m...

Summer is the fourth volume of the Seasons quartet, a collection of short prose and diaries written by a father for his youngest daughter, with stu...

How to speak of the searing, unpindownable power that the past ours, our familys, our cultures wields in the present? In five long sections, Mari...

Are you looking for more Grace in your life? Grace as a word is familiar, but do we really know what grace is and what it takes not only to achi...

I too wanted to forget that girl. Really forget her, that is, stop yearning to write about her. Stop thinking that I have to write about this girl ...

Uranus is the coldest planet in the solar system, a frozen giant named after a Greek deity. It is also the inspiration for Uranism, a concept coine...

Selected essays from America's foremost literary journalist and essayist, featuring ruminations on writers and artists as diverse as Edith Wharton,...

A Finalist for the NAACP Image AwardA Finalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for NonfictionA Finalist for the Thurber Prize for American Humo...

In Not to Read, Alejandro Zambra outlines his own particular theory of reading that also offers a kind of blurry self-portrait, or literary autobio...

With Attention, Joshua Cohen returns with his first collection of nonfiction, the culmination of two decades of writing and thought about life in t...

A TLS, FINANCIAL TIMES, NEW STATESMAN, GUARDIAN AND OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEARFrom award-winning writer Claudia Rankine, the stunning follow-up to C...

Boldly combining the highly personal with the brilliantly scholarly, In the Dark Room explores the question of how memory works emotionally and cul...

''This small-sized book has immense power. Marvel at the clarity and fire.'' Zadie SmithSarah Manguso kept a meticulous diary for twenty-five years...

In a dazzlingly original work of non-fiction, the Pulitzer-Prize winning author of The Underground Railroad recreates the exuberance, the chaos, th...

In a world that demands faith in progress and growth, Limbo is a companion for the stuck, the isolated, delayed, stranded and those in the dark. Fu...

A frank and fascinating exploration of race and racial identity, Notes from No Mans Land: American Essays begins with a series of lynchings and end...

Through the tide of hormones surging within my body, and the little runnels of blood, and the sour tang of my breasts, I lay awake, listening, and ...