There is fortunate timing to the Library of America’s bringing out in two volumes Edmund Wilson’s Literary Essays and Reviews of the 1920s & 30s and Literary Essays and Reviews of the 1930s & ...

The invaluable Library of America continues its great work with the publication of a new volume of collected essays by Wilson. U.S. policymakers and academic students of international relations are ...

Tackling works by Rushdie, Naguib Mahfouz, Doris Lessing, Borges and A.S. Byatt, Stranger Shores: Literary Essays collects critical work by South African author and two-time Booker-winner J.M. Coetzee ...

When it comes to an author’s legacy, who gets the last word? (Let’s forget for a moment the noble idea that the work speaks for itself.) Is it the author, the biographer, or the critic? Fall’s books ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. All great writers have a life and an afterlife. The afterlife begins with the reassessment of the oeuvre and ...

"How does Tagore intoxicate a growing young man . . . .? How has Dhaka transitioned through the Partition of Bengal and the birth of the University of Dhaka? . . . . how does one remember-- with ...

OF the twelve papers here reprinted, the seven more strictly literary essays are in the interest of that self-respectful demeanor, high purpose, and honest art in literature which Mr. Higginson has ...

Every year in our post-recession world, we seem to go through a familiar literary exercise: A successful, well-respected, white male author steps forward to air his money woes, a tale of kept-up ...