Literary Essays

'any service I may have rendered my countrymen in my active life I may also extend to them... now that I am at leisure' Marcus Tullius Cicero (106...

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From Farinelli, the eighteenth century castrato who brought down opera houses with his high C, to the recording of "Johnny B. Goode" affixed to the...

'It is only when you meet someone of a different culture from yourself that you begin to realize what your own beliefs really are.' The Road to Wi...

Then they took the flowers of the oak, and the flowers of the broom, and the flowers of the meadowsweet, and from those they conjured up the faires...

The 1970s were a heyday for Los Angeles. Hollywood was being revolutionized, the music business was booming, and authors like Joan Didion were prod...

Curating empire explores the diverse roles played by museums and their curators in moulding and representing the British imperial experience. This ...

In her opening, Amy Wright explains: “This essay anchors a central thread of dialogue over a dizzying divide. It weaves a decades-plus-worth of que...

From the beloved star of Gilmore Girls and the New York Times bestselling author of Talking as Fast as I Can comes a candid, insightful, and wildly...

The God of Christian faith is, according to Peter Taylor Forsyth, a God of holy, righteous love. As a result, God's intervention in human life is m...

'Intensely moving, vital and artful' - Guardian'A dizzying ride . . . both timely and beguiling' - Sunday TimesFrom the award-winning author of Cru...

Winner of the Southern Book PrizeWinner of the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the EssayFor the past four years, Margaret Renkl’s c...

Born Deaf into an ASL-speaking family and blind by adolescence, John Lee Clark learned to embrace the possibilities of his tactile world. He is on ...

“A Meteor of Intelligent Substance” “Something was Missing in our Culture, and Here It Is” “Liberties sure is needed in these times.”In a short tim...

The Independent Best Book for Walkers 2022 Where can a walk take you? It goes without saying, walking can connect us to our sur...

'If you had asked me why I had joined the militia I should have answered: "To fight against Fascism," and if you had asked me what I was fighting f...

Discover Virginia Woolf's landmark essay on women’s struggle for independence and creative opportunity A Room of One's Own is one of Virginia Woolf...

From trailblazing political activist Angela Y. Davis, a major new collection of essays and interviews that argue for a radical rethinking of our pr...

A Most Anticipated Book of 2023 from: LA Times * Boston Globe * The Millions * LitHub * ShondalandBy the New York Times bestselling author of the a...

The “f**k” count is just over sixty. The images are screenshots. The metal is mostly nu. And the grant money’s gone. From the author of The Malevol...

George Orwell, perhaps one of the most perceptive writers of the twentieth century, wrote extensively about English life and politics. This select...