An enthralling collection of nonfiction pieces on myriad topics—from art and artists to dreams, myths, and memories to comics, films, and literature—observed in...
Twenty-five Books That Shaped America
From the author of the New York Times bestselling How to Read Literature Like a Professor comes a highly entertaining and informative new book on the twenty-five works of...
Testaments Betrayed
Milan Kundera has established himself as one of the great novelists of our time with such books as The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Immortality and The Book of Laughter and...
The Professor and Other Writings
“[Terry Castle is] the most expressive, most enlightening literary critic at large today.” —Susan Sontag From one of America’s most brilliant critics and...
Dear Paris: The Paris Letters Collection
Be transported to the banks of the Seine, a corner boulangerie, or beneath the Eiffel Tower with these beautifully illustrated vignettes of life in the City of Light. What began...
Sobre Estar Doente
"Sobre estar doente" atualiza nossa noção de precariedade subjetiva para lidar com as doenças (nada mais atual que isso) e mostra como a literatura foi deixando essa lacuna ao...
A Morte Da Mariposa
"A morte da mariposa" é um dos ensaios clássicos de Virginia Woolf. Publicado postumamente, foi escrito no fim de sua vida, em meio à Segunda Guerra Mundial. No entanto, nada...
The Art of the Novel
Kundera brilliantly examines the work of such important and diverse figures as Rabelais, Cervantes, Sterne, Diderot, Flaubert, Tolstoy, and Musil. He is especially penetrating on...
Mary Shelley
'Gracefully sweeping through the dramatic life of the woman behind history’s most legendary monster, Miranda Seymour unbuttons a world of brilliant literary figures in...
But Enough About You: Essays
This collection of Buckley’s essays perfectly showcases and draws upon his many writerly voices… these are among his very best efforts…His thoughts are pithy,...
