Essays, Criticism, Memoirs
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH'S DIARIES AND NOTEBOOKS: THE NEW YORK YEARS, 1941-1950
Written by Highsmith, Patricia
Before Alfred Hitchcock adapted her debut novel, Strangers on a Train, for the big screen; before her suave and sociopathic Thomas Ripley snaked his way into the canon of psychological suspense; and before The Price of Salt became a cult classic of romantic obsession, who was Patricia Highsmith?
ALEXANDRA PETRI'S US HISTORY: IMPORTANT AMERICAN DOCUMENTS (I MADE UP)
Written by Petri, Alexandra
As a columnist for the Washington Post, Alexandra Petri has watched in real time as those who didn't learn from history have been forced to repeat it. And repeat it. And repeat it. If we repeat history one more time, we're going to fail! Maybe it's time for a new textbook.
ANIMAL JOY: A BOOK OF LAUGHTER AND RESUSCITATION
Written by Alsadir, Nuar
A Time Must-Read Book of 2022 A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2022 Aster(ix) Journal's 12 Best Nonfiction Books of 2022
WORLD ACCORDING TO PROUST
Written by Landy, Joshua
100 years after Proust's death, In Search of Lost Time remains one of the greatest works in World Literature. At 3,000 pages, it can be intimidating to some. This short volume invites first-time readers and veterans alike to view the novel in a new way. Marcel Proust (1871-1922) was arguably France's best-known literary writer.
I WANT TO KEEP SMASHING MYSELF UNTIL I AM WHOLE: AN ELIAS CANETTI READER
Written by Canetti, Elias
"A brilliant selection . . . Canetti's range astonishes." --Claire Messud, Harper's
ON FREEDOM: FOUR SONGS OF CARE AND CONSTRAINT
Written by Nelson, Maggie
Named a Most Anticipated/Best Book of the Month by: NPR * USA Today * Time * Washington Post * Vulture * Women's Wear Daily * Bustle * LitHub * The Millions * Vogue * Nylon * Shondaland * Chicago Review of Books * The Guardian * Los Angeles Times * Kirkus * Publishers Weekly So often dep
VISIBLE UNSEEN: ESSAYS
Written by Chapela, Andrea
Andrea Chapela, one of Granta's Best Young Spanish-Language Novelists of 2021, breaks down literary and scientific conventions in this prize-winning collection of experimental essays exploring the properties and poetics of glass, mirrors, and light as a means of understanding the self.
CRITICAL PRACTICE
Written by Belsey, Catherine
What is poststructuralist theory, and what difference does it make to literary criticism? Where do we find the meaning of the text: in the author's head? in the reader's? Or do we, instead, make meaning in the practice of reading itself? If so, what part do our own values play in the process of interpretation? And what is the role of the text?
PHILOSOPHY OF LITERARY FORM
Written by Burke, Kenneth
From the ForewordThese pieces are selections from work done in the Thirties, a decade so changeable that I at first thought of assembling them under the title, "While Everything Flows." Their primary interest is in speculation on the nature of linguistic, or symbolic, or literary action--and in a search for more precise ways of locating or defining such action.
MATERIAL KINSHIP READER: MATERIAL BEYOND EXTRACTION AND KINSHIP BEYOND THE NUCLEAR FAMILY
Entanglement or extractivism? Historical and contemporary writings on how we relate to the world and to each other, from Roland Barthes and Ursula K. Le Guin to Sara Ahmed and Sophie Lewis
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