Essays

Written Sometime Between 1330 And 1332, The Essays In Idleness Hardly Mirror The Turbulent Times In Which They Were Born. Despite The Struggle Between The E...

The first major new book to appear from Kurt Vonnegut in nearly a decade The New York Times - A. O. Scott A Man Without a Country is a fine place to start...

In the four and a half centuries since Machiavelli’s death, no single and unanimously accepted interpretation of his ideas has succeeded in imposing itsel...

A Winnipeg Free Press Top Read of 2021 The thirteenth installment of Canada's annual volume of essays showcases diverse nonfiction writing from across the ...

A Collection Of Magazine Stories That Ruark Wrote In The 1950s And 1960s, But Were Never Published In Book Form. Part 1. Old Man And The Boy Stories -- If Y...

English versions of Sophocles’ three great tragedies based on the myth of Oedipus, translated for a modern audience by two gifted poets. Index. ...

A Collection Of Essays That Explore The Effects Of Contemporary Patterns Of Thought On American Fiction, Considering Topics Such As The Belief In Hell, The ...

"Alternately lyrical and laugh-out-loud funny."—New York Times “Deliciously readable . . . Donald Hall, if abandoned by the muse of poetry, has wrought...

this Critical Edition Of Mann's 1912 Modernist Novella Reprints The Widely Praised Translation By David Luke. Accompanying This Text, Five Critical Essays ...

Like The Skins Of An Onion, There Are Other Worlds Existing Within Our Own And, Through Training And Study, We Can Alter Our Consciousness And Visit These A...

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant ...

The essay is one of the richest of literary forms. Its most obvious characteristics are freedom, informality, and the personal touch--though it can also f...

America's maestro reporter/novelist gives America an MRI at the dawn of a new age. Only yesterday boys and girls spoke of embracing and kissing (necking)...

Barbara Kingsolver has entertained and touched the lives of legions of readers with her critically acclaimed and bestselling novels The Bean Trees, Animal ...

In 1974 in Kinshasa, Zaïre, two African American boxers were paid five million dollars apiece to fight each other. One was Muhammad Ali, the aging but irre...

From the best-selling author of Fun Home, Time magazine’s No. 1 Book of the Year, a brilliantly told graphic memoir of Alison Bechdel becoming the artist...

Maya Angelou, One Of The Best-loved Authors Of Our Time, Shares The Wisdom Of A Remarkable Life In This Best-selling Spiritual Classic. This Is Maya Angelou...

About the Author\Jordan Kisner's writing has appeared in n+1, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, GQ, The Guardian, The American Scholar, California ...

Robert Bly, James Hillman, and Michael Meade challenge the assumptions of our poetry-deprived society in this powerful collection of more than 400 deeply ...

Harold Pinter has been called "one of the most important playwrights of our day" by The New York Times, and his plays, including The Birthday Party, The Hom...

THE ESSENTIAL GALBRAITH includes key selections from the most important works of John Kenneth Galbraith, one of the most distinguished writers of our time -...

join Professor Helen Vendler In Her Course Lecture On The Yeats Poem Among School Children. View Her Insightful And Passionate Analysis Along With A Conde...

accounts Of Thoreau's Daily Life On The Shores Of Walden Pond Outside Concord, Massachusetts, Are Interwoven With Musings On The Virtues Of Self-reliance ...

George Grant—philosopher, conservative, Canadian nationalist, Christian—was one of Canada's most significant thinkers, and the author of Lament for a Na...

All Along You Were Blooming Is A Dynamic Collection Of Illustrated Poetry And Prose Inspiring You To Live Boundlessly Right Where You Are. With Every Turn O...

The Pony Problem -- Christmas In July -- The Ursula Cookie -- Bring-your-machete-to-work Day -- The Good People Of This Dimension -- Bastard Out Of Westches...

From New York Times Bestselling Author Naomi Wolf, Facing The Beast Is A Devastating, Detailed Account Of Wrongthink, Deplatforming, And An Unexpected Polit...

From one of the most admired public intellectuals of our time, and a multi-award winning and #1 bestselling author, comes a collection of his most important...

Science writers get into the game with all kinds of noble, high-minded ambitions. We want to educate. To enlighten,” notes guest editor Amy Stewart in her...

A Collection Of The Year's Best Essays Selected By Robert Atwan And Guest Editor Rebecca Solnit. Award-winning Writer, Cultural Critic, And Activist, Rebecc...

Warning!* This book contains the following: Unsafe use of powerful firearms in combination with explosives Cultivation of illegal crops Impressionable...

A National Book Critics Circle Finalist for Criticism A deeply Malcolmian volume on painters, photographers, writers, and critics. Janet Malcolm's In the F...

A Collection Of Short Stories And Essays. The Story, My Dinner At The White House, Is An Amusing Piece On A Dinner With President Reagan, The Imaginary Girl...

The Six Essays And One Address In This Volume Outline The Great Transcendentalist's Moral Idealism As Well As Hinting At The Later Scepticism That Colored H...

In Jonathan Van Ness' New York Times bestselling memoir Over the Top, he showed readers how the incredibly difficult moments from his life (surviving sexu...

Selected Essays Previously Published In Various Periodicals And Journals.Categories: Politics & Social Sciences Politics & Government Ideologies &am...

This Collection Of Essays Brings Together Some Of The Finest Pieces Hitchens Published Over The Last Two Decades For The First Time In One Book, Addressing ...

We live in a traumatic age. Or, perhaps, we should say that trauma appears fundamental to human existence. Over the past few years, especially, we have beco...

A stunning full-color, illustrated, behind-the-scenes guide to the Good Omens television series, adapted for the screen by Neil Gaiman himself and starring...

Tom Piazza’s sharp intelligence, insight, and passion fuel this new collection of writings on music, literature, New Orleans, and America itself in despe...

Everyone’s favorite Idiot Girl, Laurie Notaro, is just trying to find the right fit, whether it’s in the adorable blouse that looks charming on the mann...

No Art Has Been Denounced As Often As Poetry. It's Even Bemoaned By Poets: I, Too, Dislike It, Wrote Marianne Moore. Many More People Agree They Hate Poetry...

The renowned animal lover shares the heartwarming stories of the various animals that inhabit the Black Beauty Ranch, animals that have been saved from deat...

Over the past few decades, the bestselling author of Hitch-22 has crisscrossed the globe debating religious scholars, Catholic clergy, rabbis, and devout C...

In This Dazzling Memoir, The Acclaimed Writer Behind Babylon 5, Sense8, Clint Eastwood's Changeling And Marvel's Thor Reveals How The Power Of Creativity An...

Bestselling author Cassandra King Conroy considers her life and the man she shared it with, paying tribute to her husband, Pat Conroy, the legendary figure...

A Whopping Big Celebration Of The Work Of The Late, Great Nora Efren, America's Funniest-- And Most Acute-- Writer, Famous For Her Brilliant Takes On Life A...

Von J. Edmund Güntz.Categories: Arts & Photography History & CriticismCriticism