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1. The Din in the Head
by Cynthia Ozick
One of America"s foremost novelists and critics focuses on the essential joys of great literature, with particular emphasis on the novel. With razor ... More
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2. Readings
by Sven Birkerts
One of the pivotal critics of our times champions the creative spirit in an age of intense distraction, tackling such subjects as manufactured ... More
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4. The Literature Machine: Essays
by Italo Calvino
'This brilliant collection of essays should be a feast for his admirers, as well as for those who approach his dazzling oeuvre for the first time ... More
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5. Responses to Modernity: Essays in the Politics of Culture
by Joseph Frank
This book consists of essays and reviews that address social, political, and cultural issues which arose in connection with literature broadly ... More
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6. The Modern World: Ten Great Writers
by Malcolm Bradbury
In this official companion to the acclaimed cable television series, Bradbury examines the lives and works of ten writers commonly recognized as the ... More
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7. Other Entertainment: Collected Pieces
Previously unpublished, this assortment of essays, reviews, "thought pieces", and even obituaries displays the same wit, charm, and intelligence for ... More
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9. Age of the Modern: And Other Literary Essays
by Harry Thornton Moore
A distinguished literary critic and Lawrence scholar, Mr. Moore has been engaged in the profession of letters for nearly forty years. From his ... More
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10. A Modernist Reader: Modernism in England, 1910-30
by Peter Faulkner
The work of the early Modernist poets, novelists and critics has set the agenda for much subsequent critical debate. For these writers the questions ... More
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12. The Lessons of Modernism
by Gabriel Josipovici
What are the relations between a man's life and his art? What is the place of modern art, with its underlying principles of fragmentation, ... More
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13. Essaying Essays: Alternative Forms of Exposition
by Richard Kostelanetz (Editor)
The AC Institute is pleased to announce the reissue of "Essaying Essays: Alternative Forms of Exposition" a collection originally compiled and edited ... More
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16. The Geoffrey Hartman Reader
by Geoffrey H. Hartman (Editor), Daniel T. O'Hara (Editor)
Winner of the 2006 Truman Capote Prize for Literary Achievement Geoffrey Hartman's interests range over almost the entire field of contemporary ... More
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17. Less Than One: Selected Essays
by Joseph Brodsky
This collection of Brodsky's essays displays the full range of interests; poetic, literary, political and historical. Essays on writers deal with ... More
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20. The Trouble with Money and Other Essays
by Ian Hamilton
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22. Jazz Fiction: A History and Comprehensive Reader's Guide
by David Rife
Jazz Fiction traces the history of jazz stories and novels from the beginning to the present and provides discussions of several persistent topics ... More
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24. Against Interpretation, and Other Essays
by Susan Sontag
First published in 1966, this celebrated book--Sontag's first collection of essays--quickly became a modern classic, and has had an enormous ... More
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25. Modernism in European Drama: Ibsen, Strindberg, Pirandello, Beckett: Essays from Modern Drama
by Frederick J Marker (Editor), Professor Christopher Innes (Editor), F J Marker (Editor)
This collection of essays, originally published over the last forty years in the journal Modern Drama, explores the drama of four of the most ... More
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