Named a Best Book of 2018 by New York Magazine, the Washington Post, Publisher's Weekly, NPR, and Time, among many others, this essay collection from the author

For a long time now, readers and scholars have strained against the limits of traditional literary criticism, whose precepts--above all, "objectivity"--seem to

Professor Olney gathers together in this book some of the best and most important writings on autobiography produced in the past two decades. Originally publish

Reveals the life of the poet chronicling his chronic depression, his love of jazz music, and his suicide attempt

Who is the greatest living essayist writing in English? Unquestionably Joseph Epstein. Epstein is penetrating. He is witty. He has a magic touch with words, tha