Literary Reference Works

Best-sellers are the books that sell well, are read by large numbers of people, and are widely talked about in the media and among readers. Yet the...

Arguably, all of Guatemalan writer Eduardo Halfons fictional works deal with quandaries of translation, even in their original versions. The award-...

Arguably, all of Guatemalan writer Eduardo Halfons fictional works deal with quandaries of translation, even in their original versions. The award-...

A beautiful, thoughtful guide to finding your perfect next read, no matter what lifes throwing at you, from the founder of Aphra a.k.a...

This edition of PLCS 40-41 focuses on the personal experience and literary production of male and female writers whose lives have passed in differe...

A collection of innovative examinations of embodiment in Miltons oeuvre that challenge assumptions about disciplinary boundaries This volume brings...

The study of the full career of an award-winning writer who evolved from traditional to radicalAmong the most celebrated American poets of the past...

A practical guide to help authors authentically write and edit a character whose identity is different than their own. Do you have the tools to a...

This deluxe edition of David Day's hugely popular The Atlas of Tolkien is a handsome hardback with an embossed and foiled cover, gilt edges and rib...

'A MARVEL' PHILIP PULLMAN Can you remember the first time you fell in love with a book? The stories we read as children matter. The best ones are...

Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. Since 1948, Survey has published the best international scholarship in Engl...

A beautifully illustrated guide to over seventy-five important journeys in world literature, spanning more than thirty countries and twenty-five hu...

What were the consequences of Tolstoy's unusual reliance on members of his family as source material for War and Peace? Did affection for close rel...

Los Angeles Review of Books is a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting and disseminating rigorous, incisive, and engaging writing on every ...

Debora Vogel (1900-1942) wrote in Yiddish unlike anyone else. Yiddish, her fourth language after Polish, Hebrew, and German, became the central veh...

Debora Vogel (1900-1942) wrote in Yiddish unlike anyone else. Yiddish, her fourth language after Polish, Hebrew, and German, became the central veh...