Category - Language Arts & Disciplines

From the bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments: "A clear-eyed glance into the shadows where writers work and live.” —The W...

Eric Hayot teaches graduate students and faculty in literary and cultural studies how to think and write like a professional scholar. From granul...

“Splendid exploration”—Wall Street Journal Few punctuation marks elicit quite as much love or hate as the exclamation mark. It's bubbly and exube...

Book Banning in 21st Century America, based on thirteen contemporary book challenge cases in schools and public libraries across the United State...

Genre fiction has always been a complex mixture of themes and elements. The increasing popularity of "genre blends," or fiction that straddles th...

In this spiritual sequel to his influential Reading for the Plot, Peter Brooks examines the dangerously alluring power of storytelling. "There's no...

"How lovely to discover a book on the craft of writing that is also fun to read . . . Alison asserts that the best stories follow patterns in natur...

In this stunning new collection, DeWitt Henry reckons with a past that is personal, familial, and cultural as well as the present dysfunction of Am...

In this stunning new collection, DeWitt Henry reckons with a past that is personal, familial, and cultural as well as the present dysfunction of Am...

A novel is among the most intricate of human creations, the result of thousands of choices and decisions. In How to Reread a Novel, Matthew Clark e...

A novel is among the most intricate of human creations, the result of thousands of choices and decisions. In How to Reread a Novel, Matthew Clark e...

In 14 original essays, The Oxford Illustrated History of the Book reveals the history of books in all their various forms, from the ancient world...

This book is about the experience of reading–what reading feels like, how it makes people feel, how people read and under what conditions, what d...

From Charles Johnson--a National Book Award winner, Professor Emeritus at University of Washington, and one of America's preeminent scholars on lit...

Following his essential writing guide, This Year You Write Your Novel, award-winning author Walter Mosley delivers an eloquent treatise on the cr...

A thorough, illuminating, and entertaining guide to crafting point of view, a fiction writer’s most essential choice. Who is telling the story to...

Reports of the death of reading are greatly exaggerated Do you worry that you've lost patience for anything longer than a tweet? If so, you're no...