'Gracefully sweeping through the dramatic life of the woman behind history’s most legendary monster, Miranda Seymour unbuttons a world of brilliant literary figures in...

“BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY.” —TimeVolume 2 of the Nobel Prize-winner’s towering masterpiece: the story of Solzhenitsyn's entrance into the Soviet prison...

What does it mean when a fictional hero takes a journey?. Shares a meal? Gets drenched in a sudden rain shower? Often, there is much more going on in a novel or poem than is...

Chesterton describes his understanding of the words Orthodox and Heretic as they apply to, and have changed in, the modern period. Chesterton argues that in modernity, the word...

This book is meant to be a companion to Heretics, and to put the positive side in addition to the negative. Many critics complained of the book called Heretics because it merely...

Now in audiobook for the first time ever! Read by Simon Jones, the original “Arthur Dent,” and written by #1 New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman, Don’t Panic is...

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...

The Saga of Gösta Berling by Selma Lagerlöf is a richly imaginative and poetic novel that blends folklore, romanticism, and psychological depth. Set in 19th-century rural...

Emily Dickinson was an American poet, widely regarded as one of the most original and influential voices in 19th-century literature. Greatest Poems  is a collection of the most...

"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...