Literary Essays

The selected essays of James Wood - our greatest living literary critic and author of How Fiction Works'James Wood is a close reader of genius... ...

A Times book of the year A Guardian book of the year MagnificentThe Times Dazzling New Statesman It filled ...

A sharp and provocative new essay collection from the award-winning author of Freedom and The Corrections In The ...

New essays by the Women's Prize and Pulitzer Prize winning author of Gilead, Home and Lila. In this collection, Marilynne Robinson impels us to act...

'So the club rose, the blood came down, and his bitterness and his anguish and his guilt were compounded'Drawing on Baldwin's own experiences of pr...

A landmark, incendiary collection from one of the leading essayists working today. Inspiring everyone from radical activists to Beyoncé Knowles, R...

An acclaimed author of novels and short stories, Tim Parks - who was described in a recent review as one of the best living writers of English - ha...

'All the books published by a certain publisher could be seen as links in a single chain'In this fascinating memoir and manifesto the author and pu...

A new selection of essays from Michael Hofmann - one of our most exceptional critics of contemporary literature. 'Superb and invigorating.' Nichola...

A hero of mine, a moral as well as literary giant Simon SchamaAmos Oz, the internationally acclaimed author of A Tale of Love and Darkness and Juda...

From Booker Prize-winner Ben Okri: twelve of his most controversial non-fiction pieces form this collection on the theme of freedom. Ranging from...

A great American writers confrontation with a great European critic a personal and intellectual awakening. Karl Kraus: satirist. Controv...

What is pretentiousness? Why do we despise it? And more controversially: why is it vital to a thriving culture? In this brilliant, passionate essay...