Literature: history & criticism books

With this book, Amy Motlagh considers how racial thinking underpins cultural practices in Iran and the Iranian diaspora....  Read More >>

Traces the connection between poetic content and form in the contradictory logic of determination that permeates...  Read More >>

Mary Shelley's The Last Man is a novel set in the aftermath of climate disaster and a war between Greece and Turkey...  Read More >>

The story of two missionary priests, travelling through the American Southwest in the aftermath of the Mexican American...  Read More >>

Contrary to popular belief, the goal of science fiction (SF) is not the prediction of the future, but rather to...  Read More >>

This book traces the origins of using sea journeys to treat mental illness, a practice recommended within the medical...  Read More >>

Offers an authoritative account of British utopian literature and culture from the postwar to the present. Written...  Read More >>

The comprehensive collection of letters spanning the adult life of one of the world’s greatest storytellers, now...  Read More >>

This book closely reads Mark Gruenwald's Squadron Supreme for its complex, contradictory, yet ultimately productive...  Read More >>

The most comprehensive and detailed history of Latin literature from the second to the seventh centuries, which...  Read More >>

Reviews originally published by the Jerusalem Post of exactly 100 books. Mostly on and about Middle East topics...  Read More >>

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Ocean, as Much as Rain presents for the first time in the English-language world a collection of stories, poetry,...  Read More >>

In Clowns in the Burying Ground, Christopher K. Coffman offers an intertextual analysis of the Grateful Dead, showing...  Read More >>

northern viewpoint is most often the default, while the south—the far southern latitudes occupied by Australia,...  Read More >>

This scholarly monograph explores the published eyewitness testimonies, poetry and literature surrounding the 1986...  Read More >>

Following his captivating and popular A Hundred Lovers, Hofmann's new collection is a queer coming-of-age, tinged...  Read More >>

A radiant, highly anticipated debut from the Well–Read Black Girl Books series, delving into the secret lives of...  Read More >>

“For pure, raw power of language, nobody in his generation comes close to Charlie Smith” (David Bottoms).  Read More >>

Ocean, as Much as Rain presents for the first time in the English-language world a collection of stories, poetry,...  Read More >>

In Clowns in the Burying Ground, Christopher K. Coffman offers an intertextual analysis of the Grateful Dead, showing...  Read More >>

This volume examines Catullus' invective and homoerotic verse and the carmina maiora or 'longer poems', alongside...  Read More >>

Since it is a court chronicle, the emphasis throughout is on the rise and fall of courtiers, governors, administrators,...  Read More >>

This book examines discriminations against horses in the literature and culture of the long eighteenth century alongside...  Read More >>

A historical sociopolitical analysis of working-class women's writing.  Read More >>