Literature, Poetry & Criticism books

Pascal Quignard delves into the uncanny bond between recognition and loss, outlining how our earliest experiences...  Read More >>

One of America’s leading music journalists on Heartland Rock’s glory days and its role in the populist politics...  Read More >>

A comprehensive study of Black women writers in the official journal of the African Methodist Episcopal Church  Read More >>

Examining revenge narratives as a feminist response to slavery and settler colonialism From Octavia Butler's Kindred...  Read More >>

A revealing account of how agents have shaped book publishing and the literary canon from the 1950s to today Middlemen...  Read More >>

This book provides an exciting and informed overview of new, emerging, and radical approaches to the long ghost...  Read More >>

Delve into a creative universe built on faith as the cornerstone of ethics, where moral dilemmas and cruelty intertwine...  Read More >>

This volume presents the work of a group of international academics on the topic of reproduction and motherhood...  Read More >>

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

An epic, dishy, character-driven history of NPR—its on-air stars, its biggest shows, its producers, and all the...  Read More >>

A vital investigation into how disposability has transformed our lives and why we've been unable to kick our plastic...  Read More >>

‘A gripping take on how fraud and scamming have become part of our everyday lives’ Laura Whateley  Read More >>

A gripping portrait of Witold Gombrowicz, a literary figure on the margins who rose to prominence late in life to...  Read More >>

This Handbook deals with textual criticism of Greek and Latin literature and of ancient documents (inscriptions,...  Read More >>

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Timeless wisdom from the ancient world to dip into every day - from internationally bestselling classicist Irene...  Read More >>

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This book offers the first critical edition and English translation of Vincenzo Figliucci’s Stanze sopra le stelle...  Read More >>

This book rethinks the relation between philosophy and literature as an agonic relation, not privileging either...  Read More >>

‘What do they know of cricket who only cricket know?’ CLR James’ famous question can be heard within the poems of...  Read More >>

First English translation of the most important Swiss poet of the nineteenth century. Now presented in a dual-language...  Read More >>