Literary Essays

This collection feels medicinal and miraculous all at once. . . This is not just nature writing. This is cosmic writing.Robert Moor, bestselling au...

In his foreword to The Ways of Paradise, Peter Cornell presents this so-called found manuscript, the work of a now-deceased, obscure researcher who...

An exhilarating journey through the world of books, featuring personal reflections on Susan Sontag, Huey Newton, Barbra Streisand, W. G. Sebald, an...

Born Deaf into an ASL-speaking family and blind by adolescence, John Lee Clark learned to embrace the possibilities of his tactile world. He is on ...

Female-led literature with an emphasis on place, nature and authenticity in nonfiction, narrative voice in fiction, ideas for our times in the lite...

For Bataille, the absence of myth had itself become the myth of the modern age. In a world that had lost the secret of its cohesion, Bataille saw s...

In these literary travel essays, twenty-six writers from across North America share journeys back to their motherlands as visitors. Set against mou...