Literature, Poetry & Criticism books

The Revolutionary Nature of Art - from the groundbreaking author of Ways of Seeing  Read More >>

Two groundbreaking dramas on art, politics and liberation from the Booker Prize winning novelist and critic  Read More >>

A superstar lineup is included in this urban fantasy collection featuring short stories from New York Times bestselling...  Read More >>

Glimmering meditations on time, memory, imprisonment, human connection, life and death by the preeminent Italian...  Read More >>

A composer addresses her dead mother across four musical movements and ninety-nine memories - and uncovers the secret...  Read More >>

How African literary forms imagine ways of living and being within coloniality Writing the Noncolonial Self suggests...  Read More >>

Interviews that illuminate a life shaped by jazz, history, and verse  Read More >>

An exploration of how comics illuminate medicine, religion, and identity  Read More >>

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Who survives war? What does survival mean? And at what cost? Yes, the sirens and bombs have ceased. Yes, peace has...  Read More >>

What does art tell us about ourselves? John Berger on the politics and consolations of creativity.  Read More >>

A major new biography that reveals how politics profoundly shaped Joyce's life, thought and writings The young...  Read More >>

Trans Central Station reflects on a trans life lived before the language to name it. In this luminous essay, award-winning...  Read More >>

Poems inspired by the strong women in award-winning poet Amit Majmudar's life, celebrating the influence and energy...  Read More >>

This book examines the relationship between philosophy and literature. It encompasses political philosophy, the...  Read More >>

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Christ's war examines Carolingian holy war from the forging of their empire in the eighth century to its dissolution...  Read More >>

Gothic London: Occult Societies and Ghostly Whispers is the first in depth study of the capital and its gothic and...  Read More >>

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A provocative history of Disney's rise to cultural dominance, pulling skeletons from the corporate closet to decode...  Read More >>

Examining culture and history from the early nineteenth century to the present, Horizons of Catastrophe in the American...  Read More >>

Places Benjamin Franklin's Philadelphia in the context of a broader Atlantic intellectual world and investigates...  Read More >>

An analysis of US science fiction, through the lens of critical race theory, that illuminates how the genre offers...  Read More >>

How African literary forms imagine ways of living and being within coloniality Writing the Noncolonial Self suggests...  Read More >>

The internet has enabled new forms of literature and challenged older forms to reinvent themselves. Between Novel...  Read More >>