Literary companions books

Authoritative, wide-ranging, and thought provoking, Tragedy and the Return of the Dead uncovers a set of interlocking...  Read More >>

Sheds a much-needed light on Edwidge Danticat and her ability to depict timely issues in sparkling prose that delves...  Read More >>

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

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

Presents the thoughts of ten noted Faulkner scholars who spoke at the twenty-seventh annual Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1939, Tobe is a children's book portraying the daily lives of an African American boy and...  Read More >>

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

Offers the first collection of interviews with former United States Poet Laureate W. S. Merwin (b. 1927). Spanning...  Read More >>

Known as “Captain Fiction”, Gordon Lish (b. 1934) is among the most influential--and controversial--figures in modern...  Read More >>

From didactic nursery rhymes to Coraline and The Hunger Games, an engagement with the vital figure of the mother...  Read More >>

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

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

Este libro es el primero en rendirle un homenaje al gran critico chileno, Jaime Concha. Reune reflexiones personales...  Read More >>

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

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

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

Authoritative, wide-ranging, and thought provoking, Tragedy and the Return of the Dead uncovers a set of interlocking...  Read More >>

Late nineteenth-century Russia witnessed a revival of the dithyramb, a poetic form of verse and dance that ancient...  Read More >>

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

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

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

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