Literary Criticism

On the Mark: A History of Punctuation from Ancient Egypt to the Emoticon

The first global history of punctuation tells the story of the marks that give voice to the written...

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Once upon a Time There Was Truth or, Why We Need Fairy Tales

Essays on imagining a better world in dark times, from one of our most esteemed scholars of fairy ta...

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Mario Vargas Llosa: A Life

'Always compulsive . . . [an] extraordinary portrait' NICHOLAS SHAKESPEARE, SPECTATOR'Chatty yet coo...

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The Future of Truth

What if a lie is told to reveal some underlying truth? Are feelings that seem inappropriate, such as...

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Shakespeare's Scholars: Three Lessons from the Liberal Arts

Shakespeare was a keen and discerning reader who was mocked by writers who, unlike him, had been to...

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What's So Great About the Great Books?: Why You Should Read Classic Literature

When she was in her early twenties, then-aspiring writer Naomi Kanakia set out to read the Great Boo...

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Letters: 1944-1959

You and I met and fell in love passionately, impatiently, dangerously. I regret nothing and I feel t...

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Letters To Sartre

These intimate love letters reveal the open relationship between de Beauvoir and Sartre, two of the...

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Shakespeare’s Tragic Art

A New Yorker Best Book We've Read This Year An Arts Fuse Recommended Book After reconstruct...

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Dickens the Enchanter: Inside the Explosive Imagination of the Great Storyteller

'Dickensian is a language, not an adjective. Conrad speaks it fluently.' -- Spectator World'Marvello...

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Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea: Journeys through Ancient Literature

Emily Wilson reflects on the power of language to evolve our understanding of the past 'Enthralli...

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How to Think Like a Poet: The Poets That Made Our World and Why We Need Them

'An entertaining guide to the rhyme and reason of poetry' -- The IdlerHow history's most influential...

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Frieze Frame: How Poets, Painters, and their Friends Framed the Debate Around Elgin and the Marbles of the Parthenon

"Frieze Frame is a lucidly brilliant, learned read that wears its learning lightly, inviting the rea...

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Monsters in the Archives: My Year of Fear with Stephen King

An exploration of Stephen King's writing from the first academic granted full access to King's archi...

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Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife

SHORTLISTED FOR THE AMERICAN LIBRARY IN PARIS BOOK AWARD 2025 ‘Strikingly accomplished . . . utterl...