Literary Essays

This volume presents several literary pieces by Fenimore Cooper almost impossible to locate elsewhere in print, including two early novel reviews, ...

Since its founding in 2011, The Atavist Magazine has garnered an unprecedented eight National Magazine Award nominations and was the first all-digi...

'What we ought to do, as writers, is seize freedom now, immediately, by recognizing that we already have it.'Cynthia Ozick, one of 'the greatest li...

First published in French magazines in the 1960s, the essays and interviews collected in this volume tackle two of Sartres most enduring concerns a...

There are few authors whose names can be as immediately identified by a large international public as that of Charles Dickens. Indisputably, to bot...

In 1948 Robert Doisneau took a picture of a young woman working at her typewriter on the banks of the Seine. With her stylish sunglasses and short ...

For John Freeman - literary critic, essayist, editor, poet and 'one of the preeminent book people of our time' (Dave Eggers) - it is a rare moment ...