Literary Essays

The first book to bring together the key writings and speeches of civil rights activist Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexanderthe first Black American econ...

Adaptation was central to André Bazins lifelong query: What is cinema? Placing films alongside literature allowed him to identify the aesthetic and...

In 1881, three writers and rights activists, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Matilda Joslyn Gage, came together to publish the first v...

George Orwell set out 'to make political writing into an art', and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature his descripti...

Selections from the Pandemic Files published by The Yale Review, the preeminent journal of literature and ideasIf only our response to the pandemic...

Living Genres in Late Modernity rehears the American 1970s through the workings of its musical genres. Exploring stylistic developments from the la...

In 1940 the Second World War continued to rage, and atrocities wreaked around the globe made international waves. Wells, a socialist and prominent ...

Selected Political Writings gathers Stuart Hall's best-known and most important essays that directly engage with political issues. Written between ...

As a break from their ordained labors, what might the Muses today do on their lunch hour? This collection of witty, shrewd, and imaginative essays ...

In certain key respects, 1943 marked a turning point in the war. Increasingly, victory seemed assured. However, the backdrop to this gradually impr...

In certain key respects, 1943 marked a turning point in the war. Increasingly, victory seemed assured. However, the backdrop to this gradually impr...

A single volume of the most beautiful texts by Herman Hesse including intimate memories of his final years. Hesse collected life sketches, poems, a...

Leah Myers may be the last member of the Jamestown SKlallam Tribe in her family line, due to her tribes strict blood quantum laws. In this unflinch...

In On Reflection Richard Holloway thinks back on some of the questions that have shaped his life. Here, then, are the big asks: is there a God? How...

Tales of Forgotten Kent is a collection of twenty-two essays about the people and events that have largely been neglected by historians, but remain...

Celebrating the centenary of the birth of the trailblazing African American author, Encounters with James Baldwin is a wide-ranging volume of short...