Literary essays books

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What's the role of religion in today's increasingly secular world? Why are we so obsessed with cults? How have the...  Read More >>

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From Hanif Kureishi, author of The Buddha of Suburbia, a memoir about the accident that left him paralysed 'A few...  Read More >>

An ecologically minded collection of essays in the vein of Rebecca Solnit and Susan Sontag-covering everything from...  Read More >>

An intense literary memoir of love and grief  Read More >>

A compelling collection of original essays on influence that restore a feminist avant-garde that includes women...  Read More >>

Drawn from NPR Music’s acclaimed, groundbreaking series Turning the Tables, the definitive book on the vital role...  Read More >>

A little book of honest and wise advice from legendary writer and Afrofuturist pioneer, Octavia E. Butler, with...  Read More >>

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For more than thirty years, the acclaimed novelist Shirley Hazzard and the renowned scholar of Japanese literature...  Read More >>

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***Now with a new afterword by MARGO JEFFERSON*** In Tisa Bryant's Unexplained Presence, readers are spectators...  Read More >>

Long treated with skepticism in literary and cultural studies, love – as a subject of serious scholarly inquiry...  Read More >>

Winner of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature As with the rest of her literary career, Dubravka Ugresic's...  Read More >>

Long treated with skepticism in literary and cultural studies, love – as a subject of serious scholarly inquiry...  Read More >>

A strange hybrid of Teletubbies and Videodrome in the age of algorithms Valentinas Klimasauskas (born 1977) wrote...  Read More >>

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A collection of literary essays that challenge how readers interact with and perceive text, context, and critical...  Read More >>

Copper Nickel is the national literary journal housed at the University of Colorado Denver. It is edited by poet,...  Read More >>

If you want to comprehend the critical contemporary life, you need to read this book. I regard myself as a surgeon...  Read More >>

A collection of literary essays that challenge how readers interact with and perceive text, context, and critical...  Read More >>

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A powerful collection of journalism on race, racism and black life and death from one of the nation's leading political...  Read More >>

Translated by Alison L. Strayer into English for the first time, The Use of Photography is an extraordinary meditation...  Read More >>