Essays

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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)...

THE BASIS OF THE MOVIE "CHE: PART ONE" FROM STEVEN SODERBERGH STARRING BENICIO DEL TORO The dramatic art and acute perceptiveness evident in Che Guevara's ...

The 2017 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Commentary and conservative icon Peggy Noonan offers her most insightful work, including her Wall Street Journal columns...

Maria Laurino sifts through the stereotypes bedeviling Italian Americans to deliver a penetrating and hilarious examination of third-generation ethnic ident...

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

Special feature! This e-book edition contains "Dark Work," our exclusive interview with Joyce Carol Oates. In this collection of twenty-one unforgettable ...

Nominated for the 2023 Heritage Toronto Book Award\A defense of the dying art of losing an afternoon—and gaining new appreciation—amidst the bins and sh...

Candid and revealing, the final volume of Christopher Isherwood's diaries brings together his thoughts on life, love, and death. Beginning in the period of ...

Novelist Heather O'neill Discusses Several Key Lessons She Learned In Childhood From Her Father. From A Lecture Delivered On March 9, 2017, At The Universit...

"Moving, deeply introspective and honest" (Publishers Weekly) reflections on exile and memory from five award-winning authors. All of the authors in Letters...

Walden in a box: Contents of writings of Henry David Thoreau: (1) Walden or Life in the Woods, (2), Economy, (3) Where I lived and What I lived For, (4) Re...

Yoohoo, Mrs. Goldberg! Faye Moskowitz is the modern Mollie Goldberg, with added pizzazz: wry, sardonic, but full of warmth. Categories: Biographies & Me...

The reputation of Alexandre Dumas pere rests chiefly on his historical novels, especially The Three Musketeers. However, Dumas's exuberance and vivid styl...

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...

A hilarious collection of essays, perfect for fans of Caitlin Moran and Lena Dunham. A collection of hilarious, poignant and moving essays from the Number ...

George Plimpton needed no encouragement. If there was a sport to play, a party to throw, a celebrity to amaze, a fireworks display to ignite, Plimpton was f...

This book is an exceptionally wide-ranging alphabetically arranged collection of stories spanning all genres of short fiction. It includes myth, fairy ta...

Edmund White is one of our most celebrated novelists. He is also a brilliant journalist and cultural commentator on the arts, contributing to publications a...

From One Of His Generation's Most Inventive And Gifted Writers (the New York Times), Intimate And Sharply Observed Commentary On Life, Art, Politics, And Th...

Curry Is A Dish That Doesn't Quite Exist, But, As This Hilarious And Sharp Essay Points Out, A Dish That Doesn't Properly Exist Can Have Infinite, Equally A...

The first book for writers that explores the emotional side of writing—dealing with everything from envy to guilt to the dreaded writer's block.Categories...

Grass's final work, a "series of meditations on writing, growing old, and living in the world"--Dust jacket flap.Categories: Literature & FictionUnited ...

With a poet’s clear eye and a journalist’s curiosity about how a city works, Dan Barry shows us New York as no other writer has seen it.Evocative, intimate,...

Sex, and death. All of Marguerite Duras's writings are suffused with the certitude that absolute love is both necessary (sex) ... and impossible to achieve ...

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...

“Reading How Literature Saved My Life is like getting to listen in on a really great, smart, provocative conversation. The book is not straightforward, it...

Most of us watch with mild concern the fast-disappearing wild spaces or the recurrence of pollution-related crises such as oil spills, toxic blooms in ferti...

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...

Aspects of Schenkerian TheoryCategories: Literature & Fiction Essays & CorrespondenceEssays

New York Times bestseller National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist Lambda Literary Award winner A best book of 2017: Time  NPR  People  Elle  The Washin...

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...

Is It Really Too Much To Ask? Vol 5: The World According To ClarksonCategories: Literature & Fiction Essays & CorrespondenceEssays

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