A groundbreaking exploration of one of America's most iconic and misunderstood authors Edgar Allan Poe: A Life is the most comprehensive critical biography of Poe yet produced, exploring his fascinating life, his extraordinary work, and the vital...

A Times Literary Supplement Best Book of the Year The 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 Joyce's reputation....

Named a 2025 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of the well-known Little House series, wrote stories from her childhood because they were ?too good to be altogether lost.? And those stories seemed far from being lost during the...

Shakespeare and Loss explores how, in Shakespeare's late tragedies (Hamlet, King Lear, Timon of Athens, Macbeth, Coriolanus, and Antony and Cleopatra),...

An illuminating reflection on the creative process from acclaimed fiction writer, essayist, and translator Lydia Davis "Reporting from the slipstream of her reading life, [Davis] offers less a new way to think than perhaps an old one, pushing back against mechanization and the collapse of...