Literary Essays

A hundred and fifty years of conflict. What does that do to a persons soul, to the spirit of a nation? To both the occupied and the occupier?Intern...

Entering the presidency in full service to the American people, John Adams vowed: Their Confidence, which has been the Chief Consolation of my Life...

Many of the ideas that appear in Arnold's Preface of 1853 to his collection of poems and in his later essays are suggested in the letters that Arno...

'Quite simply, this book is a work of genius' Matthew Parris, SpectatorThe second in a major two-part anthology uncovering the rich reality of life...

For over thirty years, Joseph Bottum has been writing widely acclaimed Christmas essays, columns, short stories, and carols for American magazines ...

Ever since the Long Expedition labeled the plains west of the Mississippi the Great American Desert, Americans have grappled with the radical diffe...

A literary critic aspires to eloquence, though makes no pretense to mirror the sublimity of the monuments inspiring his endeavors. Poets express th...