LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading

On Parchment

Animals, Archives, and the Making of Culture from Herodotus to the Digital Age

by Bruce Holsinger

Sunday Best

80 Great Books from a Lifetime of Reviews

by John Carey

The Great Mongol Shahnama

by Robert Hillenbrand

My Trade Is Mystery

Seven Meditations from a Life in Writing

by Carl Phillips

Book Madness

A Story of Book Collectors in America

by Denise Gigante

The Literary Mafia

Jews, Publishing, and Postwar American Literature

by Josh Lambert

The Object of Jewish Literature

A Material History

by Barbara E. Mann

Critical Revolutionaries

Five Critics Who Changed the Way We Read

by Terry Eagleton

Franz Kafka

The Drawings

by Andreas Kilcher and Pavel Schmidt

Contributions by Judith Butler

Translated by Kurt Beals

Why Writing Matters

Why X Matters Series

by Nicholas Delbanco

Stalin's Library

A Dictator and his Books

by Geoffrey Roberts

Of Solids and Surds

Notes for Noël Sturgeon, Marilyn Hacker, Josh Lukin, Mia Wolff, Bill Stribling, and Bob White

Why I Write

by Samuel R Delany

Borges and the Literary Marketplace

How Editorial Practices Shaped Cosmopolitan Reading

by Nora C. Benedict

For Now

Why I Write

by Eileen Myles

How the Just So Stories Were Made

The Brilliance and Tragedy Behind Kipling’s Celebrated Tales for Little Children

by John Batchelor

Hernando Colon's New World of Books

Toward a Cartography of Knowledge

by Jose Maria Perez Fernandez and Edward Wilson-Lee