Love and Death in the American NovelA provocative work of American literary criticism covering Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Nathaniel Hawthorne, William Faulkner, and others. Fielder's groundbreaking work changed the way we see the American novel and American culture at large forever. Leslie Fiedler was one of the most influential critics of the twentieth century, a maverick of American letters whose fearless and impassioned criticism polarized readers but also informs

they soon face their biggest challenge yet

offers an unvarnished dispatch from the front lines of the gig economy

an acclaimed and provocative collection of criticism

originally written in the mid-1990s

This stunningly designed slipcase with art by Baldwin's friend and contemporary Beauford Delaney will make the perfect perennial gift and keepsake

Annie Ernaux's most recent book

the collection was critically praised as one of the “best prose written in this country

Will humanity reach for the stars or die in its cradle

can also be better grasped from this position

and what do we become if we are deprived of it

an aerospace engineer from the early twenty-first century

In the words of American poet Ishmael Reed