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An Appetite for Poetry

by Frank Kermode

Frank Kermode is one of the pre-eminent practitioners of the art of criticism in the English speaking world. It has been his distinction to make a virtue - as all the best critics have done - of the necessarily...


Dreaming by the Book

by Elaine Scarry

A pathbreaking work about the way literature teaches us to use our imagination.

We often attribute to our imaginative life powers that go beyond ordinary perception or sensation. In Dreaming by the Book, the...


Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991

by Salman Rushdie

In Imaginary Homelands, Salman Rushdie presents ten years' worth of concentrated thought on topics from the most cherished literary traditions and authors of India, Europe, and America to the politics of oppression,...


Myself with Others

by Carlos Fuentes

In Myself with Others, Fuentes has assembled essays reflecting three of the great elements of his work: autobiography, love of literature, and politics. They include his reflections on his beginning as a writer,...


Garlic, Mint, and Sweet Basil: Essays on Marseilles, The Mediterranean, and Noir Fiction

by Jean-Claude Izzo

Available for the first time in English in Howard Curtis’s brilliant translation this collection of personal essays shows Izzo at his most contemplative and insightful. He writes beautifully about the city...


Prisons We Choose to Live Inside

by Doris Lessing

The celebrated author explores new ways to view ourselves and the society we live in, and gives us fresh answers to such enduring questions as how to think for ourselves and understand what we know.


Speaking of Journalism

by William Zinsser

Veteran journalist and writing teacher William Zinsser, whose books on writing have sold more than 700,000 copies, presents 11 of his most successful students discussing what it is like to work as a journalist...


Strange Stones

by Peter Hessler

An absorbing, original, and ambitious work of reportage from the acclaimed New Yorker correspondent

During the past decade, Peter Hessler has persistently illuminated worlds both foreign and familiar—ranging...


Paperwork: Selected Prose

by David Citino

David J. Citino's Paperwork is a collection of previously published essays, pieces of memoir, and poetry set within the borders of Ohio. A native of Cleveland, Citino has lived in Ohio all his life. Although...


Compromise Formations

by Vera J. Camden

These essays are collected from the Fourth International Conference on Literature and Psychology held at Kent State University, 7-9 August 1987. In selecting the essays for this first collection to emerge from...


My First New York

by New York Magazine

A book as effervescent and alive as the city itself.

My First New York features candid accounts of coming to New York by more than fifty of the most remarkable people who have called the city home. Here are true...


Paris in American Literatures: On Distance as a Literary Resource

by Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera & Vamsi K. Koneru

This collection brings together new perspectives on the novels, memoirs, poetry, and journalism concerning Paris written by Americans. By examining the implications of foreignness as a creative device, this...


Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls

by David Sedaris

A guy walks into a bar car and...

From here the story could take many turns. When this guy is David Sedaris, the possibilities are endless, but the result is always the same: he will both delight you with twists...


Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery

by Jeanette Winterson

In these ten intertwined essays, one of our most provocative young novelists proves that she is just as stylish and outrageous an art critic. For when Jeanette Winterson looks at works as diverse as the Mona...


To Carl Schmitt: Letters and Reflections

by Jacob Taubes, Keith Tribe & Michael Grimshaw

A philosopher, rabbi, religious historian, and Gnostic, Jacob Taubes was for many years a correspondent and interlocutor of Carl Schmitt (1888–1985), a German jurist, philosopher, political theorist, law professor—and...


Venices

by Paul Morand & Euan Cameron

A poetic evocation of the French diplomat’s encounters and experiences, filtered through the one constant in his life—Venice.

Diplomat, writer and poet, traveller and socialite, friend of Proust, Giraudoux...


The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm's Way

by Alice Walker

In her newest collection of wide-ranging meditations on our intertwined personal, spiritual, and political destinies, Alice Walker writes that “we are beyond a rigid category of color, sex, or spirituality...


Ender's World: Fresh Perspectives on the SF Classic Ender's Game

by Orson Scott Card

Experience the thrill of reading Ender's Game all over again

Go deeper into the complexities of Orson Scott Card’s classic novel with science fiction and fantasy writers, YA authors, military strategists, including:...


When Christmas Comes: An Anthology of Childhood Christmases

by Anne Harvey

Anne Harvey recreates the magic and spirit of childhood Christmases through a collection of pieces of poetry, prose and illustration covering the past two centuries, reminding us of the excitement and anticipation...


Signs of Power in Habsburg Spain and the New World

by Jason McCloskey & Ignacio López Alemany

Signs of Power in Habsburg Spain and the New World consists of ten chapters that examine the representation of political, economic, military and symbolic power both in Spain and the New World under the Habsburgs....