Theory & Criticism

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  • Fear Less: Poetry in Perilous Times

    Tracy K. Smith

    Hardback

    The Pulitzer Prize–winning poet reveals how poetry is a powerful tool of connection and understanding in a fractured world

  • Imagination: A Manifesto

    Ruha Benjamin

    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

    Dennis Yi Tenen

    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

    Edouard Roditi

    Subsequent

    Paperback

    Edouard Roditi's critical study of Oscar Wilde, originally published in 1947 in New Directions' Makers of Modern Literature Series, was a...

  • Well of Souls: Uncovering the Banjo's Hidden History

    Kristina R. Gaddy, Rhiannon Giddens

    Hardback

    An illuminating history of the banjo, revealing its origins at the crossroads of slavery, religion and music