Literary Essays

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

In Of Gardens and Graves Suvir Kaul examines the disruption of everyday life in Kashmir in the years following the region's pervasive militarizatio...

In Of Gardens and Graves Suvir Kaul examines the disruption of everyday life in Kashmir in the years following the region's pervasive militarizatio...

When originally published in 1995, the volume represented a major, new departure from the normal sort of scholarship on Boccaccios masterpiece, and...

Originally written as a libretto for the Berlin State Opera, Elfriede Jelineks rein GOLD reconstructs the events of Wagners epic Ring cycle and ext...

Annie Ernauxs father died exactly two months after she passed her exams for a teaching certificate. Barely educated and valued since childhood stri...

Birth is a throw of the dice. The consequences last a lifetime.We like to think of Australia as the land of the 'fair go', a land of choice and equ...

2016 Foreword Reviews Indies Award, Silver 2016 Association for Mormon Letters Award 2017 Independent Publisher Book Award, Gold This introspective...

The River of Goodness is a lyrical, global exploration of the ways we can create a more just and sustainable world for all, from the author of The...

The Speaking Stone: Stories Cemeteries Tell is a literary love letter to the joys of wandering graveyards. While working on a novel, author and lon...

'Candid, insightful, moving . . . a memoir, a chronicle of and commentary on America's abortive civil-rights movement' -The New York TimesIn this d...

Prose fiction, although not always associated with classical antiquity, flourished in the early Roman Empire, not only in realistic Latin novels bu...

'A writer of huge compassion and acute observation, and also of dazzling style . . . Her work is more relevant than ever' DIANA EVANSAn incredible ...

Who gets to shape the narrative of our times? The current moment is a battle over that foundational power. Women, people of colour and non-straight...

This little body of thought, that lies before me in the shape of a book, has existed thousands of years, nor since the invention of the press can a...

'Intelligent, compassionate, and so fiercely, prodigiously brave. This is the essay at its creative, philosophical best' Eleanor Catton, author of ...