Literature, Poetry & Criticism books

“The essay has taught me how to live,” writes Jia Tolentino, this year’s Best American Essays guest editor. In a...  Read More >>

Outlines British literature's relation to global empire from the 16th century to the present. Twenty-one chapters...  Read More >>

This Element considers pregnant women and their costumes in the staging of Shakespeare's plays. The author focusses...  Read More >>

This Element examines Walter Scott's work by investigating the influence of his French wife, Charlotte Charpentier,...  Read More >>

Alone With Others provides an unparalleled intellectual-historical account of tact in modernist literature, film,...  Read More >>

For any reader curious about the wilder flights of fancy in eighteenth-century fiction and how they challenge colonial...  Read More >>

The freedom to read is under attack. From the destruction of libraries in ancient Rome to today's state-sponsored...  Read More >>

""From the New York Times bestselling author of Everything All at Once comes a beautiful poetry collection exploring...  Read More >>

A collection of the year's best American short stories.  Read More >>

Four volumes of Emily Dickinson’s memorable and moving poetry are collected in this aesthetically appealing edition....  Read More >>

Even More Morsels for Bookworms!This fifth Ascendance of a Bookworm fanbook, intended to be read after finishing...  Read More >>

Whether searching for community in the face of millennial loneliness or wanting to reclaim a secular form of fellowship...  Read More >>

I turned to poetry when prose seemed too slow and laborious a way for my impatient, unskilled teenage self to deal...  Read More >>

In Candilaso: A Poetic Sweet, the poems explore the beauty nature provides: purple fog under El Escorial outside...  Read More >>

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A man attempts to buy a clock that can travel through time. An astronaut combats the loneliness of space. The businessman's...  Read More >>

En articulant analyse littéraire et étude d'archives, Deniz Keziban Çakıcı explore la pensée et l'écriture de Sevgi...  Read More >>

""An urgent debut essay collection examining the effects of abandonment, imprisonment, and care, and how the power...  Read More >>

A selection of science fiction and fantasy stories from American authors.  Read More >>

Explores how F. Scott Fitzgerald's short stories reveal the full depth of his life and literary genius The Life...  Read More >>

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Last Thoughts on Euripides is a companion to the second edition of volume II of the Oxford Classical Text edition...  Read More >>