Theory & Criticism
Fear Less: Poetry in Perilous Times
Hardback
The Pulitzer Prize–winning poet reveals how poetry is a powerful tool of connection and understanding in a fractured world
The Tower and the Ruin: J.R.R. Tolkien's Creation
Hardback
A leading scholar draws on fifty years of reading and studying J.R.R. Tolkien to explain how he created an entire world
Imagination: A Manifesto
Paperback
In this revelatory work, Ruha Benjamin calls on us to take imagination seriously as a site of struggle and a place of possibility for reshaping the future
Literary Theory for Robots: How Computers Learned to Write
Paperback
In the industrial age, automation came for the shoemaker and the seamstress. Today, it has come for the writer, physician, programmer and attorney
Oscar Wilde: Criticism
Subsequent
Paperback
Edouard Roditi's critical study of Oscar Wilde, originally published in 1947 in New Directions' Makers of Modern Literature Series, was a...