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The Cambridge Introduction to Emily Dickinson
The Cambridge Introduction to Emily Dickinson
Visitors to Emily Dickinson’s family home in Amherst, Massachusetts—known familiarly as “The Homestead”—can still walk through the same gardens, kitchen, parlor, and (most famously) bedroom that comprised the poet’s circumscribed... Read more...
T. S. Eliot
The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 2: 1923-1925
Reading the private correspondence of a famous person can be reassuring (“I just knew she was like that in her real life!”), upsetting (“How awful he was!), even disorienting (“I... Read more...
Edgar Allan Poe: A Critical Biography
Edgar Allan Poe: A Critical Biography
Edgar Allan Poe: A Critical Biography by Arthur Hobson Quinn Edgar Allan Poe by Kevin J. Hayes Edgar Allan Poe is one of the most beloved American writers—though it’s likely... Read more...
Hannah Arendt
Hannah Arendt and America
Hannah Arendt was among the most eminent twentieth-century political theorists. Born in Germany in 1906, she came of age during the darkest of “dark times.” Although born into a supposedly... Read more...
William Faulkner
The Saddest Words: William Faulkner's Civil War
Michael Gorra, Mary Augusta Jordan Professor of English Language and Literature at Smith College, and editor of the Norton Critical Edition of As I Lay Dying (1930), is well prepared... Read more...
Marilyn Monroe reading Ulysses
James Joyce: A Critical Guide
James Joyce: A Critical Guide by Lee Spinks Joyce: A Guide for the Perplexed by Peter Mahon James Joyce by Andrew Gibson James Joyce (Bloom’s Modern Critical Views) James Joyce’s... Read more...
Anne Sexton
Three-Martini Lunches at the Ritz: The Rebellion of Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton
Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton in Robert Lowell’s poetry class in Boston are the stuff of lore, fostered by Sexton’s rollicking report, including how she would park in the loading... Read more...
Mad at the World: A Life of John Steinbeck
Mad at the World: A Life of John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck has never been considered in the same league as William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway, his fellow Nobel Prize winners, and yet plenty of his work remains in print,... Read more...
Samuel Beckett
Beckett: A Guide for the Perplexed
Beckett: A Guide for the Perplexed The Cambridge Introduction to Samuel Beckett Samuel Beckett (Bloom's Modern Critical Views) People who read serious literature for pleasure understand that the consolations of... Read more...
Driving Mr. Albert: A Trip Across America with Einstein's Brain
Driving Mr. Albert: A Trip Across America with Einstein's Brain
When Jack Kerouac drove into “the great American night,” then poured its manic pace into On the Road, he created a living literary genre—the road narrative. Since Kerouac, authors from... Read more...
The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdős and the Search for Mathematical Truth
The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdős and the Search for Mathematical Truth
When the great Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős died in 1996 at 83, he left behind a staggering body of work. With nearly 1,500 academic articles to his credit—by far the... Read more...
Papa Hemingway: A Personal Memoir
Papa Hemingway: A Personal Memoir
This new edition of Papa Hemingway from Da Capo Press brings A. E. Hotchner’s famous memoir back into print for the first time in nearly a decade. First published in... Read more...