Literary companions books

An appreciation of Apuleius’s The Golden Ass – arguably the first-ever novel – is followed by a consideration of...  Read More >>

Richly researched and engagingly written, Political Affairs of the Heart traces the emergence of female sentimental...  Read More >>

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In this innovative study, Irigoyen-Garcia examines how the discourse and practices of insult and infamy shaped the...  Read More >>

Offers an interdisciplinary study of blackness in genre literature of the Americas. The ‘fantastical’ in fantastical...  Read More >>

Los Angeles Review of Books is a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting and disseminating rigorous, incisive,...  Read More >>

Examines the reception of Walt Whitman in Poland from 1872 to the present day. The many ways in which Whitman was...  Read More >>

Published in its entirety for the first time, John Van Buren's 'Travel journal for a trip to Europe, 1838-1839'...  Read More >>

In an ambitious reappraisal of Langston Hughes’s work and legacy, Ryan James Kernan reads Hughes’s political poetry...  Read More >>

The first book to examine this pioneering author’s complete oeuvre and to identify its legacy. Ruth Maxey offers...  Read More >>

Offers a pioneering study of the unique nexus between literature and photography in the works of Hebrew authors....  Read More >>

In an ambitious reappraisal of Langston Hughes’s work and legacy, Ryan James Kernan reads Hughes’s political poetry...  Read More >>

An edited collection of essays that ponders the cultural meaning and significance of private book collections in...  Read More >>

In this consistent and emphatic book, the great Nerudian critic Hernan Loyola addresses Neruda’s sins: the machista,...  Read More >>

Through the thwarted plotlines, genealogical interruptions, and terminated ideas of Poe’s Dupin trilogy and Hawthorne’s...  Read More >>

Reconstructs lost Formalist theories of authorship, of the psychology of narrative structure, and of the social...  Read More >>

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Challenging the assumption that modernist writer Gertrude Stein seldom integrated her Jewish identity and heritage...  Read More >>

Unites literature written by members of the far-flung black Anglophone diaspora. Rather than categorizing novels...  Read More >>

Examines Faulkner’s characters, events, locations, and visualizations, as well as offering more theoretical reflections...  Read More >>

Drawing on the popular press, unpublished personal correspondence, and archival documents, Catherine Ingrassia provides...  Read More >>

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In this book about immigrants, writing, and place, Cristina Rodriguez walks neighbourhood streets, talks to immigrants,...  Read More >>

Offers a pioneering study of the unique nexus between literature and photography in the works of Hebrew authors....  Read More >>