Literary essays

A wide-ranging collection of essays by one of America's most perceptive critics of popular and literary cultureFrom one of America's most insightful and independent-minded critics comes a remarkable new collection of essays, her first in more than fifteen years.

His name is Toure--just Toure--and like many of the musicians, athletes, and celebrities he's profiled, he has affected the way that we think about culture in America.

The cult classic essay collection from "e;one of the most emotionally exacting, mercilessly candid, deeply funny .

The Metamorphoses, by Ovid, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classicsseries, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras.

The battle of the sexes rages on in this smart, witty, and extremely timely comedy from the phenomenally popular Jane HellerAt first, Manhattan financial planner Melanie Banks adores Dan Swain, her pro football player husband who's got a sexy Oklahoma drawl to go with his athletic good looks.

Get the Summary of Sabrina Imbler's How Far the Light Reaches in 20 minutes.

A rollicking debut book of essays that takes readers on a trip through the muck of American myths that have settled in the desert of our country's underbellyEarly on July 16, 1945, Joshua Wheeler's great grandfather awoke to a flash, and then a long rumble: the world's first atomic blast filled the horizon north of his ranch in Alamogordo, New Mexico.

Today's reader has choices: books about love, aboutlife, about death and everything in between.

Spanning thirty years of writing, Making Waves traces the development of Mario Vargas Llosa's thinking on politics and culture, and shows the breadth of his interests and passions.

Raccolta di saggi letterari sull'autoconoscimento, scritti in pergamenino, sigillati, arrotolati e infilati in bottiglie di vetro incolore, senza tracce di etichetta, chiuse con tappi di sughero delle querce dell'Alentejo.

In this collection of new essays from the Liminal & Pantera Press Nonfiction Prize longlist, First Nations writers and writers of colour bend and shift boundaries, query the past and envision new futures.

“More than 100 years after [Twain] wrote these stories, they remain not only remarkably funny but remarkably modern.

A suburban Chicago family comes undone in this ';fresh and riveting' novel of domestic disquiet by an award-winning author (Booklist, starred review).

An ';entertaining collection of tributes and insights' from Jay McInerney and other novelists and poets about the writers who inspired them (Booklist).

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice.

';Explores the poetry in dynamic facts, and accumulates stories where life and life's enterprises meet.

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Waveform celebrates the role of women essayists in contemporary literature.

Ardor, inspiration, the soul, the sublime: Such terms have long since fallen from favor among critics and artists alike.

At each step of this journey through American cultural history, Louis Menand has an original point to make: he explains the real significance of William James's nervous breakdown, and of the anti-Semitism in T.

Susan Fenimore Cooper (1813-1894), though often overshadowed by her celebrity father, James Fenimore Cooper, has recently become recognized as both a pioneer of American nature writing and an early advocate for ecological sustainability.

A collection of humorous essays on "e;the art of being infuriating and other childhood fun"e; (The New York Times).

Passionate, strong-minded nonfiction from the National Book Award-winning author of The CorrectionsJonathan Franzen's The Corrections was the best-loved and most-written-about novel of 2001.

This essay collection includes the renowned poet's Nobel lecture, literary criticism, reflections on Caribbean life, and more.