Literary Essays

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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Since the dawn of the Space Age, when the Soviet Union launched the first artificial satellite and sent the first human into the cosmos, science fi...

This bilingual collection in honor of the great scholar and writer Alexander Zholkovsky brings together new work from forty-four leading scholars i...

In this rich, eye-opening, and uplifting anthology, dozens of esteemed writers, poets, artists, and translators from more than thirty countries sen...

George Mallory's collected writings on his mountaineering - and his motivations. Famously impelled to climb Mount Everest simply because it was the...

Direct and sometimes heated, these essays from prominent South African leaders consider the success of justice and reconciliation in the years sinc...

Since the dawn of the Space Age, when the Soviet Union launched the first artificial satellite and sent the first human into the cosmos, science fi...

This bilingual collection in honor of the great scholar and writer Alexander Zholkovsky brings together new work from forty-four leading scholars i...

This book brings together a number of John Schad's very best uncollected essays, interleaved with a selection of autobiographical poems and a strik...

'Marvellously unpredictable . . . by the end of the book you wish it was twice as long' (Daily Telegraph)How does the legacy of a family past shap...

Writers, publishers, readers and scholars have stopped apologising for the short story: the genre is no longer a bad investment, a trial-exercise f...

In what could be boldly called a new genre, Gerald Stern reflects with wit, pathos, rage, and tenderness, on 85 years of life. In 70 short, intermi...

Philip was a visionary like Blake, and he really saw the whole world in a grain of sand. Lawrence FerlinghettiAn inspired consciousness set at full...

Selected writings from a leading critic of modern art, the best art writer of his generation (Art Newspaper) Michael Peppiatt, guest curator of the...