Collection: Essays & Literary Criticism

Ecstasy and Terror: From the Greeks to Game of Thrones

Balzac's Lives

Everything and Less: The Novel in the Age of Amazon

The Heroine with 1001 Faces

Larry McMurtry: A Life

The Glorious American Essay: One Hundred Essays from Colonial Times to the Present

Jane Austen, Early and Late

Illustrated letters of Oscar Wilde: A Life In Letters, Writings And Wit

Essays in Love

Uncertain Manifesto

What Are We Doing Here?: Essays

He Held Radical Light: The Art of Faith, the Faith of Art

The Black Romantic Revolution: Abolitionist Poets at the End of Slavery

The Two Lolitas

Waiting for the Barbarians: Essays from the Classics to Pop Culture

97,196 Words: Essays

Secret Lives of Great Authors: What Your Teachers Never Told You about Famous Novelists, Poets, and Playwrights

The Uncollected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick (New York Review Books Classics)

Tabula Rasa: Volume 1

Life in a Cold Climate: Nancy Mitford; The Biography

The Letters of Shirley Jackson

Dark Days: Fugitive Essays

The Deadline: Essays

The Orphic Voice: Poetry and Natural History (New York Review Books Classics)

The Letters of Gustave Flaubert

All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess

Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century

Metamorphoses: In Search of Franz Kafka

Shakespeare's Book: The Story Behind the First Folio and the Making of Shakespeare

Taking A Long Look: Essays on Culture, Literature and Feminism in Our Time

Brides, Mourners, Bacchae: Women's Rituals in Roman Literature

Walden (hardcover)

Desolation Peak: Collected Writings

I Might Regret This: Essays, Drawings, Vulnerabilities, and Other Stuff

Nation, Language, and the Ethics of Translation (Translation/Transnation, 10)

The Lady and Her Monsters: A Tale of Dissections, Real-Life Dr. Frankensteins, and the Creation of Mary Shelley's Masterpiece

In the Land of the Cyclops: Essays

The Worlds of Dune: The Places and Cultures that Inspired Frank Herbert

Library of Misremembered Books

Selected Nonfiction, 1962-2007

Simple Forms: Legend, Saga, Myth, Riddle, Saying, Case, Memorabile, Fairytale, Joke

The Terrible Speed of Mercy: A Spiritual Biography of Flannery O'Connor

Proustian Uncertainties: On Reading and Rereading In Search of Lost Time

Arthur Miller: American Witness (Jewish Lives)

Capitalism and the Camera: Essays on Photography and Extraction

Creationism in Europe (Medicine, Science, and Religion in Historical Context)

Of Human Kindness: What Shakespeare Teaches Us About Empathy

Radical Vision: A Biography of Lorraine Hansberry

Shakespeare’s Tragic Art

The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker

Writers and Missionaries: Essays on the Radical Imagination

I Used to Live Here Once: The Haunted Life of Jean Rhys

The Brontë Cabinet: Three Lives in Nine Objects

Ulysses and Us: The Art of Everyday Life in Joyce's Masterpiece

Fierce Ambition: The Life and Legend of War Correspondent Maggie Higgins

Indelible Ink: The Trials of John Peter Zenger and the Birth of America's Free Press

The Reacher Guy: A Biography of Lee Child

A Splendid Intelligence: The Life of Elizabeth Hardwick

Barbarous Antiquity: Reorienting the Past in the Poetry of Early Modern England

Beyond the Cloister: Catholic Englishwomen and Early Modern Literary Culture

Coming of Age: The Sexual Awakening of Margaret Mead

Realist Ecstasy: Religion, Race, and Performance in American Literature (Performance and American Cultures, 2)

Capote's Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era

Friendship And Other Essays (arcturus Classics)

The Abandoners: On Mothers and Monsters

Literary Theory for Robots: How Computers Learned to Write (A Norton Short)

Bone of the Bone: Essays on America from a Daughter of the Working Class, 2013-2024

Didion and Babitz

How to Disappear: Notes on Invisibility in a Time of Transparency

Mr. Lear: A Life of Art and Nonsense