Essays

On 23 April 1916, Oxford University Press published a magnificent volume entitled A Book of Homage to Shakespeare, edited by Professor Israel Gollancz. Created to mark the Tercentenary of Shakespeare's death in the very midst of the First World War, it...

Is there any avant-garde? What's at stake when 100 writers think through issues of accessibility and audience? This is a book comprised of answers-to these questions and their offspring-as various and contradictory as its contributors, ranging from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789353335182Author Anupama ChopraFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Rupa & CoPublisher Rupa & Co

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789353334864Author Bijoylaxmi HotaFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Rupa & CoPublisher Rupa & Co

This collection contains some of Bly's seminal essays on poets and poetry including: Looking for Dragon Smoke, The Eight Stages of Translation, Six Disciplines that Intensify Poetry, and essays on Hirshfield, Stevens, Whitman, Wright, Rilke, Machado,...

A lyric cover of Kathy Acker's career and a study of the development of narrative in her books deftly tracing Acker's interactions with a diverse palette of avant-gardisms, world letters, cultures, and theory. Martin follows Acker through New York's...

"Coffee House Press, a major nonprofit publisher, recently launched a Kickstarter for a book examining the Internet's cat video fetish. The book, if the Kickstarter campaign reaches its $25,000 goal, will be titled Cat is Art Spelled Wrong, and examine...

This anthology presents important early essays that laid the foundation for queer studies of the Bloomsbury Group together with new essays that build upon this foundation to provide ground-breaking work on Bloomsbury figures and cultural achievements. As...

Over the course of his career, George Orwell wrote about many things, but no matter what he wrote the goal was to get at the fundamental truths of the world. He had no place for dissemblers, liars, conmen, or frauds, and he made his feelings well-known...

"They are a form of language on landscape, a form of inscape, that, intimate and moving, are also arresting and revelatory."-Arthur SzeA Luminous Uplift is a rich compendium of John Brandi's new and selected prose spanning four decades of investigative...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788129145284Author Alka PandeFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Rupa & CoPublisher Rupa & Co

During his many years writing for publications such as LA Weekly, the Los Angeles Times, Slake, Surfer's Journal and more, Joe Donnelly has driven to Texas with Wes Anderson, shot pool with Sean Penn, surfed with Chris Malloy, sparred (verbally) with...

"Readers will find that the words profiled here have a new trace of meaning, warmth, and a time-worn glow."—John Morse, publisher of Merriam-Webster, Inc. In One Word: Contemporary Writers on the Words They Love or Loathe, Molly McQuade asks the...

"Everything and nothing is sacred in Rebecca Brown's essays. Tongue, word, thought, and intellect all conspire in a free language love of living history, divination, sex, solitude and amusement. She is America's only real rock n' roll schoolteacher...

This volume gathers a diverse group of writing, from essays and correspondence to poems and songs, written in honor of Kathleen Fraser on the occasion of her eightieth birthday and celebrated at Small Press Traffic in San Francisco on March 22, 2015...

"Without self-absorption, Tall traces the self's emergence in a place which she recognized from the start as her testing place."-Seamus Heaney "In the literature of place, Deborah Tall's book stands out for its delicacy, range of learning, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781988040455Author Christopher DodaFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Tightrope BooksPublisher Tightrope Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780889713468Author Mark WinstonFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Nightwood EditionsPublisher Nightwood EditionsWeight(grams) 498gDimensions(mm) 241mm *...

"A kaleidoscope of creativity ...unsentimental and sometimes unpredictable."-Journal of the American Medical Association Founded just six years ago, Bellevue Literary Review is already widely recognized as a rare forum for emerging and celebrated...

Lyric Multiples comprises four essays written over the last decade. The subject is poetry but the essays range over such topics as the evolution of the human call, ascensional modes of thinking, pop songs, the built environment and its discontents, the...

Twelve iconoclastic and eye-opening essays on life and culture.Book InformationISBN 9780879239497Author Leslie FiedlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint David R. Godine Publisher IncPublisher David R. Godine Publisher Inc

The talks gathered in Asclepias: The Milkweeds are all concerned with discrepancy and extinction. Polylingual and transdisciplinary, each essay addresses translation as a form of disagreement and photography as its mis-fitting corollary. Calling up an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566891097Author Clarence MajorFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Coffee House PressPublisher Coffee House PressWeight(grams) 354g

"I adore [Caples'] prescription to read widely and even perversely; and his breezy style is engaging." --Don Share "Caples' discussions are careful, nuanced, personal, and opinionated." --Steven Fama "Caples is part of a younger generation of writers...

In Join the Revolution, Comrade, Charles Foran brings to the essay form the same restlessness and originality that mark his novels and non-fiction. Foran visits places in Vietnam that have been 'colonized' by western war films, talks to Shanghai...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393624106Author Melissa A GoldthwaiteFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint W. W. Norton & CompanyPublisher W. W. Norton & CompanyWeight(grams)...

Villon studies have traditionally emphasized the documentary and didactic value of the Testament, concentrating on problems of historical referentiality. It is assumed that the work has a significant autobiographical element and that it has much to tell...

Arranged for daily inspiration, wisdom from one of America’s great visionary and philosophical minds.“A chief event of life is that day on which we have encountered a mind that startled us.” A Year with Emerson is a feast of 365 such days. Known...

The title cloud of Matt Donovan's A Cloud of Unusual Size and Shape refers to the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius that in 79 AD buried the city of Pompeii under twenty feet of ash. It's no surprise, then, that Donovan found the sacred ruins a site of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781932698190Author Sina NajafiFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint CabinetPublisher CabinetWeight(grams) 426g

Selected by editor Marcello Di Cintio, the 2024 edition of Best Canadian Essays showcases the best Canadian nonfiction writing published in 2022.Featuring:Lyndsie Bourgon • Nicole Boyce • Robert Colman • Daniel Allen Cox • Acadia Currah • Sadiqa de...

The first six Atlantic Editions in a boxed collection.On BTS: Pop Music, Fandom, Sincerityby Lenika CruzA love letter to Korean pop sensation BTS and an ode to fandom.On Misdirection: Magic, Mayhem, American Politicsby Megan GarberAn investigation of...

"Discipline, humility, kindness. These qualities cohere in the best mentors, bundled into an overarching approach to the art of writing. It is not, I think, coincidence that the writers in this collection remember these qualities best when speaking of...

After its heyday in the 1970s and 1980s, many wondered whether the law and literature movement would retain vitality. This collection of essays, featuring twenty-two prominent scholars from literature departments as well as law schools, showcases the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559361002Author Tony KushnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.Publisher Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S...

From Cinelle Barnes, author of the memoir Monsoon Mansion, comes a moving and reflective essay collection about finding freedom in America. Out of a harrowing childhood in the Philippines, Cinelle Barnes emerged triumphant. But as an undocumented...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982157708Author Rachel KushnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 140g

In Children and Other Wild Animals, bestselling novelist Brian Doyle (Mink River, The Plover) describes encounters with astounding beings of every sort and shape. These true tales of animals and human mammals (generally the smaller sizes, but here and...

In 1999, the University of Chicago Press published a collection of Mike Royko's columns entitled One More Time: The Best of Mike Royko. The response was immediate and overwhelming - readers almost instantly began asking when the second volume of Royko...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789353040642Author Dr Dwarika Nath DhungelFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Rupa & CoPublisher Rupa & Co