Literary companions books

Argues that Catholicism informs a major genre of African American literature in ways and with a significance that...  Read More >>

Argues that today's Chile is a product of both complicity and complacency. Combining historical analysis with deft...  Read More >>

In this book, Sharada Balachandran Orihuela examines property ownership and its connections to citizenship, race...  Read More >>

Considers the ways in which the Irish canon not only represents an ongoing awareness of trauma as a literary and...  Read More >>

Offers a guide to Washington DC's rich literary history. Part walking tour, part anthology, A Literary Guide to...  Read More >>

Russia's provinces have long held a prominent place in the nation's cultural imagination. Lyudmila Parts looks at...  Read More >>

Even in a genre well known for generating controversy, some true-crime and scandal books have wielded a particular...  Read More >>

An edge city, poised at the northernmost tip of Africa, just nine miles across the Strait of Gibraltar from Europe...  Read More >>

With its rich cultural history and many landmark buildings, Harlem is not just one of New York's most distinctive...  Read More >>

Explores the emotional responses of audiences to neurodiverse characters and non-human animals on stage to question...  Read More >>

Explores the emotional responses of audiences to neurodiverse characters and non-human animals on stage to question...  Read More >>

Grabo, while not attempting to explain Prometheus Unbound entirely in terms of science, shows the extent to which...  Read More >>

In The Written World, Jeffrey N. Peters argues that geographic space may be understood as a foundational, originating...  Read More >>

The second volume in the original William and Katherine Devers Series in Dante Studies, The Fiore in Context is...  Read More >>

The first full-length study to treat both parts of Inca Garcilaso de la Vega's foundational text Royal Commentaries...  Read More >>

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The spring issue of the LA Review of Books Journal is dedicated to the concept of Genius - how do we know what it...  Read More >>

This monograph explores this coexistence of ""archaist and innovator"" in the figure of late Derzhavin, Russian...  Read More >>

The perfect companion piece to the first three novels in the spellbinding All Souls series. A thorough insight into...  Read More >>

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From the bestselling author of How to Read Literature Like a Professor comes this essential primer to reading poetry...  Read More >>

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First performed in 1964, Amiri Baraka's play about a charged encounter between a black man and a white woman still...  Read More >>

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In the summer of 1990, the Oka Crisis--or the Kanehsatake Resistance--exposed a rupture in the relationships between...  Read More >>