Literary companions books

When Americans describe their compatriots, who exactly are they talking about? This is the urgent question that...  Read More >>

From the linguistic to the literary, religious to the ecocritical, the proceedings explores how traditional and...  Read More >>

Focuses on six of today’s most celebrated poets whose works reimagine the interiority of Black historical figures....  Read More >>

Offers a compelling alternative to the traditional mode of analysing Arabic literature through an encounter between...  Read More >>

In this ambitious volume, Yunfei Bai delves into the creative adaptations of classical Sanskrit, Chinese, and Tibetan...  Read More >>

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A sparkling celebration of Paris by some of the greatest writers in the world from the 19th and 20th centuries....  Read More >>

A fascinating literary overview of London across the centuries, through the beautiful and varied writing it has...  Read More >>

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Examines the ecological, social, and aesthetic functions of garbage in literature and film from Argentina to Mexico....  Read More >>

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The first critical edition of the forty short texts James Joyce called “epiphanies.” Among Joyce’s earliest literary...  Read More >>

In this theory-rich study, Shelby Johnson analyses the works of Black and Indigenous writers in the Atlantic World,...  Read More >>

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A rare and penetrative exploration into Caribbean literary articulations of non-material and numinous presences....  Read More >>

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Reevaluates early modern poems of praise as, paradoxically, challenging an artistic economy that values exchange...  Read More >>

Published in 1940, Ernest Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls is widely considered a masterpiece of war literature....  Read More >>

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Offers a complete history of The Thin Man series, covering the brightest stars, tastiest scandals, headlines and...  Read More >>

Once described as ‘the best crime writer you’ve never heard of’, James Sallis is a vastly underexplored figure in...  Read More >>

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Explores the common elements of the military brat experience: frequent moves, the ever-present sense of danger,...  Read More >>