Literary Essays

First published in 2016, The Good Immigrant has since been hailed as a modern classic and credited with reshaping the discussion about race in cont...

This collection of essays covers a hundred-year history of Russian-language literature in Israel, including the pre-state period. Some of the studi...

For nearly fifty years, Vivian Gornick's essays, written with her characteristic clarity of perception and vibrant prose, have explored feminism an...

From the acclaimed author of How Will Capitalism End? comes an omnibus of long-form critical essays engaging with leading economists and thinkers. ...

Works do not have meanings, they soak up meanings: a work is a machine for libidinal investments (including the political kind). It is a process th...

The letters of Heloise and Abelard will remain one of the great, romantic and intellectual documents of human civilization while they, themselves, ...