Literary Essays

What would we learn if we could interview a whale? How is your neighborhood, your city, or your family like an ecosystem? Is diversity as advantage...

Debora Vogel (1900-1942) wrote in Yiddish unlike anyone else. Yiddish, her fourth language after Polish, Hebrew, and German, became the central veh...

Debora Vogel (1900-1942) wrote in Yiddish unlike anyone else. Yiddish, her fourth language after Polish, Hebrew, and German, became the central veh...

From twenty-seven of todays leading writers, an anthology of original pieces on the author of WaldenFeatures essays by Jennifer Finney Boylan Kris...

'A work of sheer brilliance, beauty and bravery' Andrew Sean Greer, author of Less'Masterly... Her essays have a clarity and prescience that imply ...

Although Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird has attracted a great deal of scholarly and popular attention due to its e...

For decades the suburbs have been where art happens despite: despite the conformity, the emptiness, the sameness. Time and again, the story is one ...

New & Noteworthy: The New York Times Vivid and relatable. The writing is like Vanessa herself; funny, charming and brave. Mindy Kaling Through ...

A collection of essays which reflects the authors skills and her ability to communicate and educate on a variety of levels. Her writing is informa...

A collection of essays which reflects the author's skills and her ability to communicate and educate on a variety of levels. Her writing is informa...

This amazingly wise and nimble collection investigates the horrors inflicted on so-called witches of the past. The Witch of Eye unearths salves, po...

'Fallen Among Reformers' focuses on Stella Miles Franklin's New Woman protest literature written during her time in Chicago with the National Women...

Translations in Travels from Dostoevsky's Siberia, gathered from archives and appearing in English for the first time, offer a fresh look at Dostoe...