This collection of the best essays written in the English language during the past one hundred years includes many that have become landmarks defining their time: Norman Mailer's "The White Negro," Tom Wolfe's "These Radical Chic Evenings," James...

How is it that reading and writing can at once isolate us and bring us closer to others? Blending personal narrative with literary criticism, Emily Hodgson Anderson considers what a life spent with books has taught her about loneliness and human...

This volume provides, in translation, the principal texts of literary criticism, including Aristotle's Poetics, Horace's Art of Poetry, Longinus' on Sublimity, Tacitus' Dialogues, and extracts from Plato and Plutarch.About the Series: For over 100 years...

A striking mosaic of memories, observations, and legends that together reveal the author's own story and a grand, compassionate vision of life itselfIn this kaleidoscope of reflections, renowned South American author Eduardo Galeano ranges widely, from...

"In the tradition of When Time Stopped and The Hare with Amber Eyes, this extraordinary family memoir investigates the dark legacy of the author's great-grandfather, a talented German-Jewish chemist specializing in radioactive household products who...

In this iconoclastic and sure to be contentious re-casting by a renowned critic, the great American novel Moby Dick is presented as a work that has been widely misread, an error that continues to this day. According to Barry Sanders, Herman Melville’s...

This collection of essays by leading scholars insists on a larger recognition of the importance and diversity of crime fiction in U.S. literary traditions. Instead of presenting the genre as the property of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, this...

This study of the writing of Roland Barthes breaks down the divide between lived experience and the language of a literary work.In The Barthes Fantastic, John Lurz explores the intersection of literature and everyday life—and confronts some habits of...

A critical biography of the mysterious but prolific medieval printer.Johannes Gutenberg is famous as the inventor of Europe’s first typographic printing method, and his life and legacy have long fascinated a wide audience. Due to scant and vague...

The untold story of Shakespeare’s profound influence on Virginia Woolf and the rest of the Bloomsbury Group“A spirited dance of minds.”—Chris Vognar, Boston GlobeFor the men and women of the Bloomsbury Group, Shakespeare was a constant presence and a...

A reissue of Susan Sontag’s classic first collection, featuring some of her most beloved writing―on art, life, camp, and criticism―that cemented her legacy as one of the brightest thinkers of, and beyond, her generation.Susan Sontag is widely regarded as...

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for CriticismA new edition of Susan Sontag’s groundbreaking critique of photography―its problems, politics, and possibilities.“To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed,” Sontag writes in the...

Drawing on a broad range of texts and textile objects- from the poems of Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, and T.S. Eliot to a college coat of arms, from the history of the Titanic to a collection of Nazi propaganda photographs of the Warsaw ghetto-...

Miniature books, eighteenth-century novels, Tom Thumb weddings, tall tales, and objects of tourism and nostalgia: this diverse group of cultural forms is the subject of On Longing, a fascinating analysis of the ways in which everyday objects are narrated...

An extraordinary work from the author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Blue NightsIn November 1999, Joan Didion began seeing a psychiatrist because, as she wrote to a friend, her family had had “a rough few years.” She described the sessions in a...

A stunning collection of essays and memoir from twice Booker Prize winner and international bestseller Hilary Mantel, author of The Mirror and the LightIn 1987, when Hilary Mantel was first published in the London Review of Books, she wrote to the...

“Pure and lovely…to read Zelda’s letters is to fall in love with her.” —The Washington PostEdited by renowned Jackson R. Bryer and Cathy W. Barks, with an introduction by Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald's granddaughter, Eleanor Lanahan, this compilation of...

An Annotated Bibliography That Documents The Work Of The Longtime New Yorker Writer, Journalist, Pulitzer Prize Winner, And Princeton Professor John Mcphee-- Provided By Publisher.,An Annotated Guide To The Work Of The Pulitzer Prize-winning Writer,...

A New York Review Books OriginalDuring the eighteenth century, from the death of Louis XIV until the Revolution, French culture set the standard for all of Europe. In Sweden, Austria, Italy, Spain, England, Russia, and Germany, among kings and queens,...

Winner of both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award and named by the Modern Library one of the twentieth century's 100 Best Non-Fiction Books, Paul Fussell's The Great War and Modern Memory was universally acclaimed on...