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"A transporting and illuminating voyage around the globe, through classic and modern literary works that are in conversation with one another and with the world around them. Inspired by Jules Verne's hero Phileas Fogg, David Damrosch, chair of Harvard University's department of comparative literature and founder of Harvard's Institute for World Literature, set out to counter a pandemic's restrictions on travel by exploring eighty exceptional books...
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"A nuanced, passionate exploration of the life and work of one of the most misunderstood writers of the twentieth century. Sylvia Plath is an object of enduring cultural fascination--the troubled patron saint of confessional poetry, a writer whose genius is buried under the weight of her status as the quintessential literary sad girl. Emily Van Duyne--a superfan and scholar--radically reimagines the last years of Plath's life, confronts her suicide...
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"Columbia professor and cultural historian Jeremy Dauber takes readers to the startling origins of the horror genre in the United States, from the lingering influence of the European Gothic to the enslaved insurrection tales and the apocryphal chronicles of colonial settlers kidnapped by Native Americans"-- Provided by publisher.
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A collection of twenty reviews, essays and pieces of memoir selected from three decades of the author's contributions to the London review of books. Subjects include Robespierre and Danton, the Hite report, Saudi Arabia (where she lived for four years in the 1980s), the Bulger case, John Osborne, the Virgin Mary as well as the pop icon Madonna, and Helen Duncan, Britain's last witch. There are essays about Jane Boleyn, Charles Brandon, Christopher...
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Many readers know Lewis as an author of fiction and fantasy literature, including the Chronicles of Narnia and the Space Trilogy. Others know him for his books in apologetics, including Mere Christianity and The Problem of Pain. But few know him for his scholarly work as a professor of medieval and Renaissance literature. What shaped the mind of this great thinker? Jason Baxter argues that Lewis was deeply formed not only by the words of Scripture...
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"From the award-winning biographer of Chaucer, the story of his most popular and scandalous character, from the Middle Ages to #MeToo Ever since her triumphant debut in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, the Wife of Bath, arguably the first ordinary and recognizably real woman in English literature, has obsessed readers-from Shakespeare to James Joyce, Voltaire to Pasolini, Dryden to Zadie Smith. Few literary characters have led such colourful lives or matched...
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"This collection of graphic reviews, illustrated prose, and visualized poetics addressing the last century of American poetry establishes the roots of Terrance Hayes's poetic influences and reconstructs modes of poetic engagement, demonstrating what makes a poem both move and be moving and illustrating how drawing itself can be a kind of critical, poetic discourse"-- Provided by publisher.
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USA Today Bestseller
"Sensitive, searingly intelligent, and beautifully written." —Claire Dederer, author of Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
"This is—for real—a masterwork, one I will return to over and over." —Joanna Rakoff, author of My Salinger Year
In this intimate and riveting memoir, Best American Essayist Nicole Graev Lipson breaks...
"Sensitive, searingly intelligent, and beautifully written." —Claire Dederer, author of Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
"This is—for real—a masterwork, one I will return to over and over." —Joanna Rakoff, author of My Salinger Year
In this intimate and riveting memoir, Best American Essayist Nicole Graev Lipson breaks...
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Weird fiction wouldn't exist without the women who created it. Meet the female authors who defied convention to craft some of literature's strangest tales. And find out why their own stories are equally intriguing. Monster, She Wrote shares the stories of women past and present who invented horror, speculative, and weird fiction and made it great. You'll meet celebrated icons (Ann Radcliffe, V.C. Andrews), forgotten wordsmiths (Eli Colter, Ruby Jean...
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In addition to her celebrated career as a novelist, Hilary Mantel contributed for years to newspapers and journals, unspooling stories from her own life and illuminating the world as she found it. A Memoir of My Former Self collects the finest of this writing over four decades.-- Provided by publisher.
16) Ascua de Luna
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Manuel Benítez comparte con nosotros en este magnífico libro, Ascua de luna, sus pulsiones temáticas universales con el colorido visual que le otorga su doble vocación: la del pintor y la del escritor. Su lenguaje -tal como en su prosa y en sus lienzos- es plástico, vitalista y profundamente metafórico. Personificaciones y homofonías tales como: La vida no se apaga si la llama de Dios te llama. Nunca creí que la madera tuviera tanta fuerza/...
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Póngale usted el título que quiera es una obra con al menos dos libros. En las páginas impares, el reto de empezar cada poema con el mismo verso nos descubre frente a un espejo donde somos la posibilidad que no fuimos: empezar por desconocernos, por querer ser otro, por ser ese otro y hablar con las plantas, por escribir los poemas que nos pasan, por ver el humo de las naves quemadas... en cada poema, un itinerario situacional y afectivo nos anticipa...
18) Libros chiquitos
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Hay en este libro un elogio sigiloso de lo mínimo. Y también de lo nuevo, de la actualidad, de lo reciente. No se trata de una exaltación de las grandes bibliotecas ni de los vates modernos sino de una íntima historia de inclinación por la poesía, por los llamados géneros menores y por los lectores pequeños en edad, como los propios nietos. En este libro que se abre a la historia personal de los afectos y a la vez reflexiona sobre el lenguaje...
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Un vicio, una fiebre, una neurosis que se inicia en la infancia y prospera: así se presenta en este libro la lectura, como una experiencia radical, intensa. Hace falta desdoblarse, verse a sí mismo bajo la perspectiva de una tercera persona, para describir las obsesiones que conforman el identikit del lector Alan Pauls: su adn, esa ley del deseo irrefrenable que funda la continuidad (no la escisión) entre vida y arte. Un paso más allá del lector...
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