Category - Literary Criticism

Compelling memoir of Flora Veit-Wild and her relationship with the Zimbabwean novelist, poet, playwright, and essayist Dambudzo Marechera, one of A...

From "the best essayist in this country" (The New York Times Book Review) comes an incisive book-length essay about racism in American movies that ...

Product DetailsISBN-13: 9780300274141 Media Type: Paperback Publisher: Yale University Press Publication Date: 08-08-2023 Pages: 112

An eloquent and moving personal account of art and exile from award-winning writer Edwidge Danticat "Create dangerously, for people who read danger...

A NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • From "one of our most nuanced thinkers on the intersections of race, class, and feminism" (Cathy Park Ho...

Radio Active tells the story of Joe's decades of activism, from his childhood in a segregated neighborhood in Dayton, Ohio, to interviewing Barack ...

'A searing, triumphant story. A testament to the tenacity of the human spirit as well as a beautiful ode to an iconic figure' IRENOSEN OKOJIE ...

At once a memoir of an exotic life, a meditation on the art and craft of writing, and a brilliant examination of the always complex relationship be...

Throughout her career, Elizabeth Bowen, the Anglo-Irish novelist and short story writer, also wrote literary essays that display a shrewd, generous...

In a direct, frank, and intimate exploration of Iranian literature and society, scholar, teacher, and poet Fatemeh Keshavarz challenges popular per...

Literary Nonfiction. LGBTQIA Studies. Asian & Asian American Studies. Born in a rural Chinese village and identified as a girl at birth, Lei Mi...

In 1999, Chiufang Hwang tried out for the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders on a whim, and the experience was an epiphany. "That day in Texas Stadium, I ...

Literary Nonfiction. LGBTQIA Studies. Finalist for a 2018 Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Anthology. TRANS HOMO...GASP offers an honest, tender, s...

Done properly, memoir is more than just a recitation of facts about a person's life.It's a journey, connecting writer and reader in that shared spa...

CHIUFANG HWANG came to the United States from Taiwan when she was a toddler so her father could pursue a PhD. But his academic American dream stall...

Chiufang Hwang, M.D. was born in Taiwan but came to the United States as a toddler so her father could pursue a PhD. Usually the only Asian kid on ...

MEMOIRS OF ELLEANOR ELDRIDGE. by ELEANOR ELDRIDGE. Memoirs of Elleanor EldridgeProduct DetailsISBN-13: 9781453722329 Media Type: Paperback Publishe...

Written on the twentieth anniversary of James Baldwin's death, Letter to Jimmy is African writer Alain Mabanckou's ode to his literary hero and an ...