In How to Read Now, Elaine Castillo brilliantly argues that being a good reader means learning how to interrogate and interpret the stories all around us.
Seven hundred years after Dante Alighieri’s death, a new biography parses the elusive life of one of civilization’s greatest poets.
This is a stirring exploration of the natural world and its impact on beloved author Frances Hodgson Burnett.
Astonishing from start to finish, The Madman’s Library stands as a testament to the abiding adaptability of books.
This collection of terms for hard-to-articulate emotional states is the perfect gift for logophiles.
This thoughtful guide to the work of marginalized writers is brimming with reading recommendations and fabulous illustrations.
An award-winning literary critic scrutinizes how the novel may be forever changed by the age of Amazon.
A capacious collection of never-before-published letters from one of America’s most enigmatic writers makes its debut 56 years after Shirley Jackson’s death.
Jess McHugh’s book is essential reading—illuminating, engaging and absorbing. You’ll never look at the dictionary or cookbook on your shelf the same way.
The Life She Wished to Live is the biography that Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings has long deserved.
In an engrossing new study, Crowther reveals the parallels between Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton—two disparate, talented and troubled poetic geniuses.
Is Lolita a work of genius or unrepentant smut? A madman’s confession or justification for pedophilia? These essays wholly reassess this work’s legacy.
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