"We look around and feel as if book culture as we know it is crumbling to dust, but there's one important thing to keep in mind: as we know it." Wh...

This book combines the reading public's interest in science fiction with the always popular biography genre. The book contains one hundred concise ...

Geishas and samurai, manga and animé come to mind when Japan enters the conversation. While these traditional and modern images about the island na...

Circus as drama and risk, as exuberance and irrepressible spirit, is the central metaphor Patricia Sykes uses to open a world where public and priv...

This book offers a complex and thought-provoking anthology of critical essays respecting the notion of the witness and phenomena of witnessing in W...

His poetry sings of the beauty of the natural world and offers a vision of the paradise that the world could be, but it is also imbued with a deep ...

Since his now famous appearance on the literary stage in 1968 novelist, playwright and poet Peter Handke has remained on the forefront of the liter...

By bringing in different degrees of circulation in different regions and languages, this collection shows that while literary centers do exist in w...

This translation of Thomas Bernhard's Der Weltverbesserer makes a contemporary masterpiece available to English language readers for the first time...

William Zinsser, author of "On Writing Well" and many other books, wrote a weekly blog for the American Scholar -- about writing, the arts, New Yor...

When the SS Empire Windrush berthed at Tilbury docks in 1948 with 492 ex-servicemen from the Caribbean, it marked the beginning of the post-war mig...

In this unique book, Ray McGinnis offers us a new, deeper, and more meaningful way to explore and understand the Psalms. Vividly connecting us with...

Paola Brusasco's study offers an original insight into Sri Lankan literature in English and an exploration of cultural, social, and linguistic issu...

Yiddish literature and culture take a central position in Jewish literatures. They are shaped to a high degree, not least through migration, by enc...

Robin Hyde's extraordinary but short life (1906-39) included a precocious early career as poet and parliamentary reporter. As a journalist, she jug...