Literary Essays

'[Pinckney] reveals himself to be a skilful chronicler of black experience in literary criticism, reportage and biography' The New York Times In th...

Drawn from NPR Musics acclaimed, groundbreaking series Turning the Tables, the definitive book on the vital role of Women in Musicfrom Beyoncé to O...

What would you risk to know yourself? Which stories are you willing to follow to the bitter end, revise, or, possibly, begin all over? In this coll...

From actor, comedian, co-creator of Marcel the Shell, and New York Times bestselling author of Little Weirds Jenny Slate, a wild, soulful, hilari...

Essays chronicling the beauty and awe of Appalachia through the eyes of a lifelong West Virginian.   Winner of the 2023 Autumn House Nonfiction Pri...

Recombinant Theory is a collection of literary essays that challenge how readers interact with and perceive text, context, and critical writing. Wo...

Recombinant Theory is a collection of literary essays that challenge how readers interact with and perceive text, context, and critical writing. Wo...

The long-awaited essay collection from one of the most influential voices in disability activism that detonates a bomb in our collective understand...

Discover Henry David Thoreaus two inspiring masterworks in one combined, exquisite edition from Union Square & Co.s Signature Gilded Editions s...

In Tisa Bryant's Unexplained Presence, readers are spectators of mis-en-scènes in which black subjectivity has been distorted and denied within var...

The Decade of Letting Things Go is a book of linked essays containing still-relevant experiences that take place after the age of becoming sociall...

Veteran scholar and critic Henry Sussman deploys anecdote, reportage, and memoir to lament and scrutinize the rise of anti-intellectualism in the p...