Literary Essays

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

Human Heartbeat Detected is a collection of essays that explores how we are wonderfully and terrifyingly human. Hitting on themes such as trauma, e...

A Winnipeg Free Press Top Read of 2021 The thirteenth installment of Canada's annual volume of essays showcases diverse nonfiction writing from a...

2021 FIRECRACKER AWARD FINALIST FEATURED IN PUBLISHERS WEEKLY's STILL HERE, STILL QUEER: LBGTQ BOOKS 2020 FEATURED IN BOOK RIOT'S INDIE PRESS R...

Russian Cuisine in Exile brings the essays of Pyotr Vail and Alexander Genis, originally written in the mid-1980s, to an English-speaking audience....

'Ought to become a classic. It is an enshrinement of [Meades's] intense baroque and catholic cleverness' Roger Lewis, The Times'One of the foremost...

The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism (1920) is a collection of essays by T.S. Eliot. Although Eliot is primarily recognized as one of th...

The social practice of tact was an invention of the nineteenth century, a period when Britain was witnessing unprecedented urbanization, industrial...

Cops on bikes, undercover security in the supermarket, TSA agents wondering why there appears to be a gun in his bag, Keith Lowell Jensen has a lot...

The Irish writer, Deirdre Madden, has written key novels about the Northern Irish Troubles and about contemporary Ireland. In these works, she weig...

Jenny is the future of nonfiction in America. What an absurdly arrogant statement to make. I make it anyway. Watch. -John D'AgataYes, Aristotle, th...

A New York Times Book Review Summer Reading Selection Delves into not only what we eat around the world, but what we once ate and what we have los...

Simpsonistas: Tales from the Simpson Literary Project, Vol. 3 highlights brilliant work by associates of the Simpson Project: Joyce Carol Oates, An...

The twelfth installment of Best Canadian Essays speaks with striking prescience to our contemporary moment. This booklike most that have found t...

Guard the Mysteries is a compendium of five talks that the poet Cedar Sigo presented for the Bagley Wright Lecture series. Retracing the ways in wh...

'From the outset, the social space of the essay is involved with the texts readers to the degree that conversation is implied more or less intimat...

The best essays from Americas premier cultural historian   Jackson Lears has been hailed as the dean of American cultural history and one of the fe...

A vivid historical imagining of life in the early United StatesOne of the richest books ever to come my way.Annie Proulx, Pulitzer Prizewinning aut...