Literary essays

Are the men you know obsessed with strange details?

Will Dowd takes us on a whimsical journey through one year of New England weather in this engaging collection of essays.

The American essays of renowned writer Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) artistically chronicle the robust urban life of Cincinnati and New Orleans.

Kentucky history centers on the Bluegrass; this is not to say that the rest of Kentucky does not have a rich story, but chronologically, the beginning was here.

Everyone told Sinead that having a newborn was a bubble of bliss - and after a traumatic pregnancy, she was hoping they were right.

Illuminating African narratives for readers both inside and outside the continent.

Illuminating African narratives for readers both inside and outside the continent.

Will Dowd takes us on a whimsical journey through one year of New England weather in this engaging collection of essays.

Illuminating African narratives for readers both inside and outside the continent.

Illuminating African narratives for readers both inside and outside the continent.

Illuminating African narratives for readers both inside and outside the continent.

Illuminating African narratives for readers both inside and outside the continent.

Illuminating African narratives for readers both inside and outside the continent.

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Are the men you know obsessed with strange details?

From global bestseller and creator of Jack Reacher, comes Lee Child s first-ever autobiographical collection.

Illuminating African narratives for readers both inside and outside the continent.

'The Ghetto, and Other Poems' (1918), traduit al catala per primera vegada en aquest llibre, retrata en el primer poema, "e;El gueto"e;, d'una manera intima i vivida, el mon dels immigrants jueus ubicats al Lower East Side de Nova York.

Illuminating African narratives for readers both inside and outside the continent.

Illuminating African narratives for readers both inside and outside the continent.

Breakfast at the Hoito brings together a collection of stories and essays on the dreamlike world of Lake Superior's north shore .

*One of the Telegraph's Greatest Books of 2025*'A brutal and brilliant study of female celebrity .

'Tawada's strange, exquisite book toys with ideas of language, identity and what it means to own someone else's story or one's own' The New Yorker on Tawada's Memoirs of a Polar BearAre you formed by your mother tongue?

In this powerful collection of personal essays, thirty-six Australian Jewish women, including Ramona Koval, Dani Valent and Kylie Moore-Gilbert, reveal how their lives were turned upside down in the wake of October 7 attacks.

If you love iambic pentameter, then look away because this book about Australian politics is pure prose, baby!

«Miquel Martín i Serra és un escriptor per als dies de festa.

Avec leur perspective aerienne unique et creatrice, les ecrivains-aviateurs offrent un regard lucide et libere des limites terrestres lorsqu'ils composent.

Essays in Life is a selection of thirty-two pieces, all but nine of which, in earlier versions, have been previously published in on-line media.

In-depth, intense, insightful.

«Un libro fundamental para entender las relaciones entre poder y arquitectura».

Un viaje fascinante a la China antigua para descubrir cómo se forjaron las estrategias de persuasión política más sutiles y peligrosas de la historia.

Roger Zottis latest collection of essays, Best Served Cold, is mostly a true book with some stretchers, as Mark Twains Huck Finn says about Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

Ce volume contient huit articles de collègues, d’étudiants ou d’amis de Hachem Foda en hommage à son immense contribution à l’étude de la littérature arabe médiévale.

From Lord of the Rings to Game of Thrones , over the last hundred years few genres have captured the public imagination as powerfully as fantasy.

A nostalgic and poignant coming-of-age story told through one young womans relationships with the mother figures in her lifeRelationships between mothers and daughters can often be complicated and fraught.

Cet essai se veut un hommage à Joseph Ponthus, décédé à l’âge de 43  ans, deux ans après la parution d’À la ligne (2019), son roman unique.

À la croisée des frontières, l’univers romanesque de Mustapha Tlili se construit sur un enracinement paradoxal, à la fois recherché et inatteignable.

Les préfigurations de la pendaison de Nerval dans ses œuvres, évoquent le rôle salvateur que la pensée traditionnelle attribue à ce supplice.

Georg-Büchner-Preis 2025»Ein Nein zur Migration ist ein Ja zum Rassismus.

I am gonna write poems til I die and when I have gotten outta this body I am gonna hang round in the wind and knock over everybody who got their feet on the ground.

Illuminating African narratives for readers both inside and outside the continent.

In 1713, soon after publication of the Spectator had come to an end, its place on breakfast tables of Queen Anne's London was taken by the Guardian.

Illuminating African narratives for readers both inside and outside the continent.

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Illuminating African narratives for readers both inside and outside the continent.

Illuminating African narratives for readers both inside and outside the continent.

This selection of writings by twenty-nine women, known and unknown, professional and amateur, presents a unique portrait of Canada through time and space, from the seventeenth to the early twentieth centuries, from the Maritimes to British Columbia and the Far North.

Step aboard Boater, a mesmerising voyage along the tranquil waterways of England, written by former UK Canal Laureate, Jo Bell.

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Presss Open Access publishing program.