Literary Criticism

In a rare New York appearance, the beloved British author of Old Filth and The Man in the...

The New York Times best-selling author of the literary page-turner The Emperor's Children...

The superstar author makes a stop on his last official book tour to read from and discuss...

Novelists Egan (Pulitzer Prize-winner for A Visit from the Goon Squad), Hustvedt (The Sum...

In conversation with Jay McInerney (Bright Lights, Big City). The author of Super Sad Tru...

Rick Moody (The Ice Storm), Dinaw Mengestu (All Our Names), and Hari Kunzru (Gods Without...

Four fierce authors of romance, suspense, fantasy, and bestselling series for teens: Anna...

Authors Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club), Victor LaValle (The Devil in Silver), Michael Cunni...

Longtime collaborators John Luther Adams and author Barry Lopez discuss their work, which...

A half century after Chinua Achebe penned Things Fall Apart, Jeffrey Brown discusses Afri...

Jonathan Franzen's latest novel unfolds between multiple characters across time and geogr...

When geobiologist Hope Jahren sat down to describe the results of her research, she found...

As a young man, Lawrence Wright first visited the Middle East when he taught English in C...

Novelist Stephen King is best known for his works of horror, but he says what scares him ...

For the latest NewsHour Bookshelf, Gwen Ifill sits down with Supreme Court Justice Ruth B...

In his new book, Moonglow: A Novel, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon blurs th...

Amos Oz grew up in Israel in the early years of its statehood. Now, in his first book in ...

In George Saunders’ Lincoln in the Bardo the ghostly inhabitants of a cemetery don'...

Who was humorist David Sedaris before he had sold millions of books and made countless li...

As an actor, educational TV host and founder of a scholarly center for communication scie...

Testimony, a new legal thriller by bestselling author and attorney Scott Turow, centers a...

In the new novel House of Names, one of today's leading contemporary writers looks back t...

Four fierce authors of romance, suspense, fantasy, and bestselling series for teens: Anna...

Pulitzer finalist and bestselling author Nathan Englander will be joined by author Mira J...

Nobel Prize winner and bestselling novelist Orhan Pamuk comes to Symphony Space for a con...

Join bestselling author Nicole Krauss to discuss her upcoming new novel, Forest Dark, an ...

The place of poetry in modern democracy is no place, according to conventional wisdom. Th...

The Canterbury Tales & Paradise Lost are two epic works that have been entertaining&mdash...

The Illiad & The Odyssey are two epic poems by Greek author Homer, works that have been e...

Hamlet and Macbeth are two dramas by William Shakespeare that have been thrilling audienc...

New York Times bestselling author and monk Thomas Merton explores the literature and spir...

As with any great work of the literary imagination, the Confessions of Saint Augustine de...

In this audio course, you will explore the remarkable vision of Duns Scotus with Sr. Mary...

Rediscover your favorite classic dystopian novels like The Time Machine, 1984, and Slaugh...

Rediscover Mark Twain’s classic novels, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Advent...

Culture’s Consequences was the first study took and in depth look at cultural diffe...

In Situated Learning, Lave and Wenger rejected the traditional understanding of learning,...

In his highly influential best seller, first published in 1973, Burton Malkiel demolishes...

With 1962’s Centuries of Childhood, Philippe Aries didn’t just produce the fi...

First published in 1978, Batatu’s extraordinarily detailed text is considered the d...

What is the past – and what can we really know about it? This is the big question F...

Nigerian novelist and professor Chinua Achebe was acutely conscious that Western views of...

Famous as an accomplished poet, T. S. Eliot was also the author of some highly important ...

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction—and the first black woman to win the Nobel...

One of the most widely read books in the social sciences, Purity and Danger established M...

Vision and Difference, published in 1988, is one of the most significant works in feminis...

Tabbaa's The Transformation of Islamic Art offers an innovative approach to understanding...

Argyris’s "The Individual and Organization" is part of a series of essays and books...

Exploration and Exploitation is a key text for scholars and business practitioners intere...

Ikujiro Nonaka’s A Dynamic Theory of Organizational Knowledge Creation outlines the...