Literary Essays

A landmark collection by New York Times journalist Dan Barry, selected from a decade of his distinctive This Land columns and presenting a powerful...

All Dylan Thomas' major works gathered together and featuring a bold new livery in celebration of the Dylan Thomas centenary.A rich collection of D...

Italo Calvino once said that he preferred to give false details about his biography since he felt that even the genuine data of a writer's life she...

Although Brian Aldiss cannot be pigeon-holed as a science fiction writer there is no doubt that he is a master of the art of conceiving other world...

When the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded on December 10, 2010, its recipient, Liu Xiaobo, was in Jinzhou Prison, serving an eleven-year sentence for ...

Imagems 2 contains six statements by a poet who continues to challenge modernism and post-modernism alike. This chapbook complements and elaborates...

Ishmael Reed has devoted his life to uncovering the neglected cultural and historical record of the United States, no matter how ugly it might be. ...

In the 1920s, Habeeb Salloum's parents left behind the orchards and vineyards of French-occupied Syria to seek a new life on the windswept, drought...

This collection brings together eleven interviews with J Hillis Miller from 1987 to 2014 conducted by distinguished scholars and critics from China...

Considered by many to be the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature laureates defining work, The Years is a narrative of the period 1941 to 2006 told throu...

The boundaries of citizenship have been blurred by global information systems--while the public and private spheres have been reshaped through g...

Outlander, an epic time travel adventure with plenty of history and romance, has hit cable television. And unlike many other shows, this one seems ...

Sherman Alexie is, by many accounts, the most widely read American Indian writer in the United States and likely in the world.  A literary polymath...

This major new collection of texts by Helene Cixous brings together a range of important untranslated as well as four previously unpublished essays...

Poems by Jeffrey Wainwright, Angela Leighton, Alex Wong, Rod Mengham, Simon Turner, Helen Tookey, Lucy Tunstall, William Logan, Henry King, Brian C...

This anthology presents important early essays that laid the foundation for queer studies of the Bloomsbury Group together with new essays that bui...