Literature: history & criticism books

This open access book offers a groundbreaking exploration of how iconicity: language's resemblance to its referents—is...  Read More >>

A delightful compendium of musings from the master of life writing, the much-loved Blake Morrison, for those who...  Read More >>

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‘Dazzling … one fine day, you open a book by an unknown writer, and a charge of pure talent blows you away’ La...  Read More >>

A fascinating study into the world of translation and Shakespeare from the award-winning translator Daniel Hahn...  Read More >>

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Combining extensive research into sexual violence with the author's personal experiences as a feminist activist,...  Read More >>

Winner of the 2024 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize in Poetry, Theo LeGro's unflinching debut explores chronic illness,...  Read More >>

A gorgeous new translation of one of the strongest inaugural works in twentieth century poetry  Read More >>

Recent news images of disastrous floods, fires and earthquakes vividly show we live in an unstable world. This book...  Read More >>

Collected literary and film criticism and more-now revised and updated with new material-from an award-winning,...  Read More >>

Since its founding, the United States has colonized more than five hundred Indigenous nations in North America and...  Read More >>

This groundbreaking collection gathers essays, poems, and hybrid...  Read More >>

This book explores the development and features of Malawian poetry of resistance, which arguably began with the...  Read More >>

Music in World Literature: From Tolstoy to Manga examines the relationship between music and literary works within...  Read More >>

The iconic Renaissance songbook–an inspiration to love poets since the fourteenth century–in an elegant, fluid and...  Read More >>

The latest volume in our new Fantagraphics Atlas Creator Collection focuses on the feverishly imaginative Bill Everett's...  Read More >>

An elegant biography of a prescient author whose novels portray Black women's experiences across the African diaspora...  Read More >>

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Challenging the belief that medieval marriages were loveless, this book analyzes troubadour poetry and historical...  Read More >>

A collection of essays on Zadie Smith's oeuvre to date, which proposes to investigate Smith's works from different...  Read More >>

The first book-length literary history of some of early modern Europe's most influential carceral institutions,...  Read More >>

A revelatory history of Black radio productions from the 1950s to the present Audiofuturism uncovers the vibrant,...  Read More >>

Since its founding, the United States has colonized more than five hundred Indigenous nations in North America and...  Read More >>

Contrasting works by queer Chicano writers against the legal landscape of sexuality and migration to interrogate...  Read More >>