Literary Essays

Acerbic, wisecracking and hilarious, this is the definitive essay collection from New York legend and satirist, Fran Lebowitz, star of Martin Scors...

Readers for Life is a collection of essays, in the main specially commissioned, by fiction authors and literary scholars, who reflect on their chil...

A multicultural anthology, edited by Susan OConnor and Annick Smith, about the enduring importance and shifting associations of the hearth in our w...

Winner of the 2022 Permafrost Prize in Nonfiction A Dictionary of Modern Consternation is a genre-bending nonfiction lyric following one family th...

Winner of the 2022 Permafrost Prize in Nonfiction A Dictionary of Modern Consternation is a genre-bending nonfiction lyric following one family th...

A fascinating history of Irishmen, woven through the clothes they wear. Taking the clothes they wore as a starting point, Paul Galvin skilfully we...

This book presents critiques about African American authors and poets, as well as a composer, who have contributed towards social change, namely Ra...

In luminous prose that effortlessly portrays the intimate and familiar pangs of growing up, Funk captivates from the get-go, and the 80s nostalgia ...

This book presents critiques about African American authors and poets, as well as a composer, who have contributed towards social change, namely Ra...

The Poetics of Wrongness is a collection of essay/talks that the poet Rachel Zucker, expanded from lectures presented for the Bagley Wright Lecture...

This interdisciplinary collection of essays examines Leo Tolstoys unorthodox and provocative approach to spirituality, as presented in his numerous...