Literary Essays

This collection of essays by the eminent historian Joseph Strayer makes available in one volume his important shorter studies on the central theme ...

Fresh, risky, improvisational and hard-to-categorize writing - Chicago TribuneTalk Stories is a collection of Jamaica Kincaids original writing for...

The pieces in this collection capture the feeling of being buffeted by great gusts of middle-aged longing. What began as one womans quarrel with Bu...

Like all the best meetings of Jewish minds, this book will make you think, argue and see the world anew. Hadley Freeman, author of House of GlassCo...

Join science journalist Sabrina Imbler on an astonishing journey which will completely redefine the way you think about nature and the ocean'An ast...

Philosopher-playwright Alain Jugnons a body, in spite introduces this prolific French author to an English-speaking readership. The aphorisms that ...

This collection of essays by the eminent historian Joseph Strayer makes available in one volume his important shorter studies on the central theme ...

The color green is at the center of the spectrum. For earlier writers like Emily Dickinson or William Blake, the green world was a space of hauntin...

In the six essays of this book, Ksana Blank examines affinities among works of nineteenth and twentieth-century Russian literature and their connec...

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