Literature: history & criticism books

A darkly comic and celebrated new play that offers a fugue of Reaganomics, espionage, roller disco, cults... and...  Read More >>

By his longtime friend and a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, the definitive biography of Larry McMurtry, the...  Read More >>

Private, previously unpublished conversations between the author and one of the twentieth century's greatest dramatists...  Read More >>

The first and only comprehensive introductory study of Walter Pater's writing, this Companion presents incisive...  Read More >>

Will appeal to all readers interested in the ecological power of literature. Views fiction as a sensing instrument...  Read More >>

This volume offers new perspectives on Emerson in relation to his contemporary moment; his religious and spiritual...  Read More >>

The Victorians invented environmentalism but struggled with their human-centred perspectives and values. This collection...  Read More >>

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The remarkable tale of how queer bookshops built communities, nourished minds, redefined literature – and changed...  Read More >>

This inspirational book is a delightful gift for readers and fans of Charlotte Bronte's novels.  Read More >>

A bold, intimate debut novel that follows a young Moroccan woman's flight from shame to self-reclamation. For...  Read More >>

A bold and tender portrait of family, identity, and truth in the North Bronx. Through narrative poems and innovative...  Read More >>

An innovative collection of essays that explore the intersections between two powerful creative movements  Read More >>

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Part detective mystery, part historical fiction, The Enchanted Clock is a philosophically and linguistically multifaceted...  Read More >>

Surreal and dreamlike poems that chronicle the pleasures, pains, and anxieties of life. John Cross's WHAT BLEAK...  Read More >>

In Soul Cake, Lisa Russ Spaar makes late-life, hibernal forays into ecstasy, God hunger, soul-making, language,...  Read More >>

An innovative collection of essays that explore the intersections between two powerful creative movements  Read More >>

This book examines Australian memoirs of settler belonging written by public intellectuals-writers, historians,...  Read More >>

The Life and Writings of Maria Teresa de S Nogueira examines the life and journalism of Maria Teresa de S Nogueira,...  Read More >>

A probing essay collection that chronicles one woman's complicated quest for belonging in a fractured America, from...  Read More >>

Shakespeare and Early Modern Madness, the first collection to focus on madness and mental health in early modern...  Read More >>

An authoritative perspective on the evolution and politics of theater performance in and beyond India. In Centrestage,...  Read More >>

This book examines the transnational dynamics that shape Latina affect narrative from the 1990s through the twenty-first...  Read More >>

The next book of stories from the creator of the bestselling tarot deck, ""Tarot of the Divine,"" and Beneath the...  Read More >>