From the author of the New York Times bestselling How to Read Literature Like a Professor comes a highly entertaining and informative new book on the twenty-five works of...

Milan Kundera has established himself as one of the great novelists of our time with such books as The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Immortality and The Book of Laughter and...

“[Terry Castle is] the most expressive, most enlightening literary critic at large today.” —Susan Sontag From one of America’s most brilliant critics and...

Be transported to the banks of the Seine, a corner boulangerie, or beneath the Eiffel Tower with these beautifully illustrated vignettes of life in the City of Light. What began...

"Sobre estar doente" atualiza nossa noção de precariedade subjetiva para lidar com as doenças (nada mais atual que isso) e mostra como a literatura foi deixando essa lacuna ao...

"A morte da mariposa" é um dos ensaios clássicos de Virginia Woolf. Publicado postumamente, foi escrito no fim de sua vida, em meio à Segunda Guerra Mundial. No entanto, nada...

Kundera brilliantly examines the work of such important and diverse figures as Rabelais, Cervantes, Sterne, Diderot, Flaubert, Tolstoy, and Musil. He is especially penetrating on...

This collection of Buckley’s essays perfectly showcases and draws upon his many writerly voices… these are among his very best efforts…His thoughts are pithy,...

THE KING OF CONSERVATIVE TALK RADIO SPEAKS OUT! "Bob Grant is the king of talk radio in New York...He is one of the few talk show hosts who has lasted in combat radio. He...

From public radio This American Life contributor and self-described “history nerd” Sarah Vowell comes a collection of humorous and personal essays investigating...