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Reaching Inside: 50 Acclaimed Authors on 100 Essential Short Stories by Andre Dubus III
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.91A moving and inspiring anthology of masterful essays on stories that touch the hearts and minds of readers. "A writer," Nobel Prize winner Saul Bellow once said, "is a reader who is moved to... -
What is American Literature? by Ilan Stavans 9780198816218
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £16.70An incisive, thought-provoking, and timely meditation, at once panoramic and synoptic, on American literature for an age of xenophobia, heightened nationalism, and economic disparity. The... -
Strangers in the Land: Blacks, Jews, Post-Holocaust America by Eric J. Sundquist 9780674030695
Booksplease Price: £31.62In a culture deeply divided along ethnic lines, the idea that the relationship between blacks and Jews was once thought special-indeed, critical to the cause of civil rights-might seem strange. Yet... -
Kick and Run by Jonathan Wilson 9781448213788
Booksplease Price: £15.71Kick and Run is a gripping, funny, sometimes heartbreaking account of a life well lived and a game played, if not always masterfully, then certainly with the utmost passion. 'Jonathan Wilson is an... -
A Previous Life: Another Posthumous Novel by Edmund White
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15______________ 'Elegant, filthy - and quite possibly the queerest thing you will read all year.' - Guardian 'Intriguing and inventive.' - Electric Literature, "Most Anticipated LGBTQ+... -
Ellmann's Joyce: The Biography of a Masterpiece and Its Maker Zachary Leader 9780674248397
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £22.58The story of the most acclaimed literary biography of the twentieth century-an ingeniously plotted, behind-the-scenes account of how the literary critic and scholar Richard Ellmann shaped James... -
Adventures in the Orgasmatron: The Invention of Sex by Christopher Turner
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.42The untold story of Wilhelm Reich and the dawn of the sexual revolution. An illuminating, startling, at times bizarre story of sex and science, ecstasy and repression. In the middle of the... -
Psychic Mimesis From Bible and Homer to Now: Inner Lives Over Time by Nathan M. Szajnberg 9781666922554
Booksplease Price: £76.51How did we develop our current views of inner life? Psychic Mimesis From Bible and Homer to the Present: Inner Life Over Time reaches back to Biblical and Homeric times, then sweeps across over two... -
Prodigal Sons: The New York Intellectuals and Their World by Alexander Bloom 9780195051773
RRP: £22.49Booksplease Price: £19.71"A herd of independent minds," Harold Rosenberg once labelled his fellow intellectuals. They were, and are, as this book shows, a special and fascinating group, including literary critics Lionel... -
The Man Who Read Everything: The Literary Letters of Harold Bloom Harold Bloom 9780300283839
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £20.59A selection of the lively letters between one of the world's greatest literary critics and the poets, novelists, and scholars he most admiredBringing together a collection of Harold Bloom's letters... -
Heading Inland by Nicola Barker
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.95Heading Inland is a funny, broody, saucy collection of stories about the kind of people you sometimes meet but might prefer to ignore. Barker creates a wonderfully fantastical and... -
The Prison Minyan by Jonathan Stone
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73The scene is Otisville Prison, upstate New York. A crew of fraudsters, tax evaders, trigamists and forgers discuss matters of right and wrong in a Talmudic study and prayer group, or 'minyan', led by... -
In Pursuit of Knowledge: Scholars, Status, and Academic Culture by Deborah L. Rhode 9780804755344
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £23.06Although academics have never lacked for critics, publications on the profession tend to be either popularized polemics, which are engaging but misleading, or scholarly analyses, which are... -
Winter Sun by Miki Lentin 9781739982492
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.64A spiky father-son relationship is tested to its limits on their last holiday together. A nine-day winter break in Tenerife. Nothing is quite good enough. A son tries in vain to ask his ailing,... -
A Pinnacle of Feeling: American Literature and Presidential Government by Sean McCann
RRP: £62.00Booksplease Price: £49.55There is no more powerful symbol in American political life than the presidency, and the image of presidential power has had no less profound an impact on American fiction. A Pinnacle of Feeling is... -
London Fields Martin Amis 9781784879952
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY RACHEL CUSKWriter, Samson Young, is staring death in the face, and not only his own. Void of ideas and on the verge of terminal decline, Samson's dash to a decaying,... -
Philip Roth: The Biography by Blake Bailey
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £23.54'Superlative... definitive and genuinely gripping' SUNDAY TIMES'Utterly engrossing' EVENING STANDARD'Compulsively readable... Beautifully written... Definitive' OBSERVER Appointed by Philip Roth and... -
Land of Tomorrow: Postwar Fiction and the Crisis of American Liberalism by Benjamin Mangrum 9780190909376
RRP: £83.00Booksplease Price: £69.54American liberalism after the Second World War turned against the legacies of the New Deal era. Rather than extending the reforms of the 1930s, many expressions of postwar liberal thought recast... -
Chickadee by Louise Erdrich 9780060577926
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £5.29Winner of the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction, Chickadee is the first novel of a new arc in the critically acclaimed Birchbark House series by New York Times bestselling author Louise... -
Urban Confrontations in Literature and Social Science, 1848-2001: European Contexts, American Evolutions by Edward J. Ahearn 9781138266049
RRP: £55.99Booksplease Price: £49.89In an innovative contribution to the challenging of disciplinary boundaries, Edward J. Ahearn juxtaposes works of literature with the writings of social scientists to discover how together they... -
Loving Robert Lowell by Sandra Hochman
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.31Turner Publishing proudly presents the first of three new literary works by Sandra Hochman, author of Walking Papers. When asked in 1976 by a reporter from People Magazine if her first two novels... -
The Loves of My Life: A Sex Memoir Edmund White 9781526686701
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.24With his trademark wit, candour and relentlessly perceptive eye, Edmund White, the beloved 85-year-old 'paterfamilias of queer literature' (New York Times) delves unflinchingly into the aspect of his... -
Blue in Chicago: And Other Stories by Bette Howland
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40'One of the significant writers of her generation.' Saul Bellow'Her prose is cooler than a cocktail and sharper than a Japanese knife . . . Nora Ephron meets Lorrie Moore, which is about as good as... -
Myth and Gospel in the Fiction of John Updike by John McTavish 9780718895372
Booksplease Price: £23.78Big on style, slight on substance: that has been a common charge over the years by critics of John Updike. In fact, however, John Updike is one of the most serious writers of modern times. Myth, as... -
W-3: A Memoir by Bette Howland
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73'Dazzlingly and daringly written' Rachel Cooke, ObserverW-3 is a small psychiatric ward in a large university hospital, a world of pills and passes dispensed by an all-powerful staff, a world of... -
The Movement Reconsidered: Essays on Larkin, Amis, Gunn, Davie and Their Contemporaries by Zachary Leader 9780199558254
Booksplease Price: £55.70The Movement was the preeminent poetical grouping of post-war Britain. 'We shall have stamped our taste on the age between us in the end', boasted its most important poet, Philip Larkin, of his and... -
Bernard Malamud: A Writer's Life by Philip Davis 9780199571475
Booksplease Price: £21.10Philip Davis tells the story of Bernard Malamud (1914-1986), the self-made son of poor Jewish immigrants who went on to become one of the foremost novelists and short-story writers of the post-war... -
On Life-Writing by Zachary Leader 9780198816447
Booksplease Price: £30.86'Life-writing' is a generic term meant to encompass a range of writings about lives or parts of lives, or which provide materials out of which lives or parts of lives are composed. These writings... -
Beloved by Toni Morrison 9780099760115
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49Discover Toni Morrison's most iconic work in this Pulitzer-prize winning novel that exemplifies her powerful and important place in contemporary American literature.'An American masterpiece' AS... -
Philip Roth: A Counterlife by Ira Nadel
RRP: £28.49Booksplease Price: £22.46This new biography of famed American novelist Philip Roth offers a full account of his development as a writer. Philip Roth was much more than a Jewish writer from Newark, as this new biography... -
Things to Come and Go Bette Howland 9781529035926
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.12'Reminiscent of Edna O'Brien, with shades too of Jean Rhys.' - The Irish TimesThings to Come and Go showcases the incomparable talent of Bette Howland in three novellas of stunning power, beauty, and... -
Once and for All: The Best of Delmore Schwartz by Delmore Schwartz 9780811224321
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £13.03With his New Directions debut in 1938, the twenty-five-year-old Delmore Schwartz was hailed as a genius and among the most promising writers of his generation. Yet he died in relative obscurity in... -
Beloved by Toni Morrison 9780099511656
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49Discover Toni Morrison's most iconic work in this Pulitzer-prize winning novel that exemplifies her powerful and important place in contemporary American literature.'An American masterpiece' AS... -
W-3: A Memoir Bette Howland 9781529035872
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.67'W-3 is one hell of a debut' Lucy Scholes, Paris Review'At moments dazzlingly and daringly written' Rachel Cook, Observer'Howland is finally getting the recognition that she deserves' Sarah Hughes,... -
Writing Was Everthing by Alfred Kazin 9780674962385
Booksplease Price: £26.96For more than sixty years Alfred Kazin has been one of the most eloquent witnesses to the literary life of the mind in America. Writing Was Everything is a summation of that life, a story of coming... -
The Rub of Time: Bellow, Nabokov, Hitchens, Travolta, Trump. Essays and Reportage, 1994-2016 by Martin Amis
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46Of all the great novelists writing today, none shows the same gift as Martin Amis for writing non-fiction - his essays, literary criticism and journalism are justly acclaimed. The Rub of Time... -
The Long Life by Helen Small 9780199592562
Booksplease Price: £40.41The Long Life invites the reader to range widely from the writings of Plato through to recent philosophical work by Derek Parfit, Bernard Williams, and others, and from Shakespeare's King Lear... -
Things To Come and Go by Bette Howland
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.37'Honest, acerbic, alert, and always dazzling.' - Amitava Kumar, author of Immigrant, MontanaThings to Come and Go showcases the incomparable talent of Bette Howland in three novellas of stunning... -
On Life-Writing by Zachary Leader 9780198704065
RRP: £42.99Booksplease Price: £37.97Chapter 12 of this publication is open access, available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence, offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. ... -
Alone in America: The Stories That Matter by Robert A. Ferguson 9780674066762
RRP: £35.95Booksplease Price: £30.14Robert A. Ferguson investigates the nature of loneliness in American fiction, from its mythological beginnings in Rip Van Winkle to the postmodern terrors of 9/11. At issue is the dark side of a...