Literature, Poetry & Criticism books

Lyrical Translation is a literary history of modern Korean poetry's origins and its development through translation....  Read More >>

Medieval Holy Women and the Desire for Death investigates the tension between death as necessary for bringing about...  Read More >>

Imagines great artificial fiction that represents the world in creatively nonhuman ways while challenging how we...  Read More >>

Throughout the twentieth century, scholars accepted that there was something called “traditional” poetic meter,...  Read More >>

Japanese writers' engagement with kanshi unveils a journey from the Meiji era's mastery of Literary Sinitic poetry...  Read More >>

In Karen Blixen's Search for Self, Patti M. Marxsen presents a twenty-first-century reconsideration of Blixen's...  Read More >>

Chekhov's fiction offers a subtle yet powerful message: another life is possible. Something can always happen to...  Read More >>

'Brilliant and discursive' Antonia Fraser, Sunday Times 'Hughes-Hallett's exemplary reappraisal … throws...  Read More >>

How one visionary inspired 200 years of art, poetry, and protest. Weaving between the historical, cultural and personal,...  Read More >>

An indispensable compendium of Hunter S Thompson's best of Gonzo.  Read More >>

The second volume of Hunter S. Thompson’s legendary 'Gonzo Papers'.  Read More >>

“A Szymborska poem is always charming, wonderfully charming, charming as a small child singing, charming as a great...  Read More >>

An anthology of poems on the Lake District by Hardwicke Drummond Rawnsley written during the period 1880-1920 that...  Read More >>

Poussée par l'élan de sa Vague bleue, l'auteur, également illustratrice, nous emmène dans un voyage poétique ponctué...  Read More >>

Comment s'abandonner à l'autre sans se perdre soi-même ? Le paradoxe de l'amour explore la contradiction fondamentale...  Read More >>

One of the most inspiring thinkers of our age transforms the way we think about the world with his reflections on...  Read More >>

Chekhov's fiction offers a subtle yet powerful message: another life is possible. Something can always happen to...  Read More >>

A new collection and first UK publication from the Poet Laureate of the United States Arthur Sze has long been...  Read More >>

Polly Clark’s poetry inhabits a world that is strange, unsettling, and edged with danger. This retrospective of...  Read More >>

This is the first volume in the ten-volume Collected Works of Walter Pater. It contains the text of Walter Pater's...  Read More >>

From award-winning authors and Yale Divinity School colleagues Christian Wiman and Miroslav Volf—two world-renowned...  Read More >>

An anthology of unforgettable poems by, for and about parents  Read More >>

Darcey Steinke - the author beloved by Olivia Laing and Maggie Nelson - examines the experience of pain, organ by...  Read More >>

An anthology of poems on the Lake District by Hardwicke Drummond Rawnsley written during the period 1880-1920 that...  Read More >>

During COVID-19, the Harrisons were in lockdown. When the mother contracts the virus and nearly dies, their family...  Read More >>