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Considered the father of modern Norwegian poetry, Jacobsen s work records the extraordinary changes that take place as w......more
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Open Papers is the primary statement on his art by Odysseas Elytis, winner of the 1979 Nobel Prize in Literature, and a ......more
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From an acclaimed playwright comes "an American masterpiece" (Newsweek) about the 1992 Los Angeles riots. Twilight is a ......more
Modern Japanese Literature is Donald Keene s critically acclaimed companion volume to his landmark Anthology of Japanese......more
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In this anthology of poetry and fiction, ten Native Americans of California Indian ancestry illuminate aspects of their ......more
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Longfellow was the most popular poet of his day. This selection includes generous samplings from his longer works--Evang......more
A single volume introduction to the major writers of the Italian Renaissance--Petrarch, Boccaccio, Alberti, della Mirand......more
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With this book, Barthes offers a broad-ranging meditation on the culture, society, art, literature, language, and iconog......more
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Preface by Richard Howard. Translated by Richard Miller. This is Barthes’s scrupulous literary analysis of Balzac’s shor......more
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Elizabeth Taylor’s reflections on South African fiction are rooted in the political and social realities which dictated,......more
In this wide-ranging collection of essays and reviews, the novelist and short story writer Ellis Sharp analyses the work......more
Visually amazing, this critical history of comic books, manga, and graphic novels is a must-have for any comic buff or c......more
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An intimate memoir of growing up inside legendary Parisian publishing house Les Éditions de Minuit. I wanted to tell the......more
An archive and annotation of Black music-performance culture, produced alongside Harmony Holiday’s first solo museum exh......more
The year is 1970; the war in Vietnam is five years from over. The women’s movement is newly resurgent, and feminists are......more
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Shakespeare Lied is Sky Gilbert’s second rumination on Shakespeare to be published by Guernica Editions. It places ’the ......more
Can we ever really know the truth about our parents? From the popular journalist, podcaster and tweeter about his rescue......more
It has been said, quite correctly, that we write as well as we read. It can also be said that we think as well as we rea......more
Edición en tapa dura del ensayo que se ha convertido en un icono de la literatura modernista y del feminismo, con una nu......more
A manifesto reclaiming the wives and mistresses of literary modernism that inspired a generation of writers and scholars......more
A stunning, fearless, and darkly comic debut essay collection about race, justice, and the limits of good intentions. In......more
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"Cowboy erotica meets Kathy Acker in this smart, raunchy look at a queer sexual awakening Part memoir, part literary stu......more
Longlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay A new collection of pieces on literature an......more
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This is the story of my search for truth-first, the truth of a childhood with a sexually abusive, alcoholic father and a......more
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Now back in print, these witty, insightful ssays on fashion, cinema, wartime, and everyday life demonstrate why Eileen C......more
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Pulitzer Prize Nominated Winner of the 1993 PEN/Newman’s Own First Amendment Award for Claudia Johnson’s extraordinary e......more
A boy who feels persecuted by the banality of everyday life yearns to ascend to the cold and majestic plane of the stars......more
Agatha Christie was not only the most successful author of detective stories the world has ever known, she was also a my......more
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In this spiritual sequel to his influential Reading for the Plot, Peter Brooks examines the dangerously alluring power o......more
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"Writers and critics have long acknowledged Bronwen Wallace’s unique contribution to Canadian literature and yet her wor......more
"Astute and consistently surprising critic" (NPR) Olivia Laing investigates the body and its discontents through the gre......more
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