'One might, at an early age, wish to be a poet or a dramatist or a novelist or even possibly a critic," Joseph Epstein writes in "A Literary Education," his 13th collection of essays. "One somehow ...

This essay collection from novelist (Foreign Bodies) and literary critic Ozick takes a fresh look at renowned writers of the past and present. She sorts the authors under consideration into different ...

Familiar and much-admired voices will share shelf space this season with introductions to less familiar authors, along with considerations of the sometimes-fraught subject of literary friendship and ...

*I'm an American writer who is rather given to planetary rambling, but there are certainly areas of the world where I get lots more writerly. Here in Belgrade, for instance, I rejoice in a book-lined ...

Academic, writer, and translator Dr Fakrul Alam's new book, Once More into the Past: Essays, Personal, Public, and Literary, was published at the Ekushey Boi Mela 2020, recently. Published by The ...

One of the features that anyone embarking on the description of the essay as a genre unquestionably has to face is the indeterminacy that is germane to its essence (Obaldia 1995), which is reflected ...

Literature is fragile. It serves no obvious purpose. But it is also as close to immortal as any cultural endeavor has ever ...