LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General

The Fine Art of Literary Fist-Fighting

How a Bunch of Rabble-Rousers, Outsiders, and Ne’er-do-wells Concocted Creative Nonfiction

by Lee Gutkind

Retroland

A Reader's Guide to the Dazzling Diversity of Modern Fiction

by Peter Kemp

Under the Red White and Blue

Patriotism, Disenchantment and the Stubborn Myth of the Great Gatsby

by Greil Marcus

Bright Star, Green Light

The Beautiful Works and Damned Lives of John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald

by Jonathan Bate

Magnum Opus

The Cycle Plays of Eugene O’Neill

by Zander Brietzke

Restless Secularism

Modernism and the Religious Inheritance

by Matthew Mutter

James Fenimore Cooper

The Later Years

by Wayne Franklin

The War That Used Up Words

American Writers and the First World War

by Hazel Hutchison

A Voice Still Heard

Selected Essays of Irving Howe

by Irving Howe

Edited by Nina Howe

Foreword by Morris Dickstein

Emerson's Protégés

Mentoring and Marketing Transcendentalism's Future

by David O. Dowling

Renegade

Henry Miller and the Making of "Tropic of Cancer"

Icons of America

by Frederick Turner

Promiscuous

"Portnoy's Complaint" and Our Doomed Pursuit of Happiness

by Bernard Avishai

Return Passages

Great American Travel Writing, 1780-1910

by Larzer Ziff

Ralph Ellison in Progress

From "Invisible Man" to "Three Days Before the Shooting . . . "

by Adam Bradley

Modernism

by Michael Levenson

Our Hero

Superman on Earth

Icons of America

by Tom De Haven