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Camus: Portrait of a Moralist

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Camus: Portrait of a Moralist

Stephen Eric Bronner

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Decades after his death, Albert Camus (1913-60) is still regarded as one of the most influential and fascinating in... See details

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Yeats and Violence

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Yeats and Violence

Michael Wood

Yeats and Violence is a work of criticism prompted by Michael Wood’s personal response to certain lines of W. B. Yeats’s ‘Nineteen H... See details

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Event of Literature

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The Event of Literature

Terry Eagleton

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What is literature? Can we even speak of “literature” at all? What do different literary theories tell ... See details

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Just Words: Lillian Hellman, Mary McCarthy, and the Failure of Public Conversation in America

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Just Words: Lillian Hellman, Mary McCarthy, and the Failure of Public Conversation in America

Alan L. Ackerman

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A title that offers a many-faceted examination of Lillian Hellman’s infamous suit and explores what it tells ... See details

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Promiscuous: “Portnoy’s Complaint” and Our Doomed Pursuit of Happiness

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Promiscuous: “Portnoy’s Complaint” and Our Doomed Pursuit of Happiness

Bernard Avishai

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The publication of “Portnoy’s Complaint” in 1969 provoked instant, powerful reactions. The author... See details

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Secret History of Vladimir Nabakov

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The Secret History of Vladimir Nabakov

Andrea Pitzer

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Into the Woods: A Five Act Journey into Story

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Into the Woods: A Five Act Journey into Story

John Yorke

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A revelation of the fundamental structure and meaning of all stories, from the man responsible for more hours of dr... See details

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Believer, Issue 97

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Believer, Issue 97

Heidi Julavits and Andrew Leland

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A monthly magazine where length is no object. It features long articles, interviews, and book reviews, as well as p... See details

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Mary Shelley

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Mary Shelley

Muriel Spark

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In the summer of 1816, aged nineteen, Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein. A pioneering work of science fiction, it cap... See details

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Oh Yeah, That’s What I Was Doing

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Oh Yeah, That’s What I Was Doing

Sheila Heti and Ross Simonini

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Collects five years of intimate, wide-ranging conversations with many of today’s most prominent writers, take... See details

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Wry Romance of the Literary Rectory

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The Wry Romance of the Literary Rectory

Deborah Alun-Jones

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Village rectories, the traditional family homes of church ministers, have had a long association with writers in Br... See details

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Lots of Fun at Finnegans Wake: Unravelling Universals

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Lots of Fun at Finnegans Wake: Unravelling Universals

Finn Fordham

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James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake is an iconic text of 20th Century avant-garde literature. This book is a critica... See details

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Homer’s Turk: How Classics Shaped Ideas of the East

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Homer’s Turk: How Classics Shaped Ideas of the East

Jerry Toner

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Spanning the Crusades, the Indian Raj, and the postwar decline of the British Empire, Homer’s Turk illuminate... See details

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