Bel Ami is the second novel by French author Guy de Maupassant, published in 1885; an English translation titled Bel Ami, or, The History of a Scoundrel: A Novel first appeared in...

"Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street" (1853) is a short story by the American writer Herman Melville. At the start of his story the lawyer already employs...

All the Year Round was a Victorian periodical, being a British weekly literary magazine founded and owned by Charles Dickens, published between 1859 and 1895 throughout the United...

*Most Anticipated Reads of 2019 Selection by Publishers Weekly, BuzzFeed, The Rumpus, Lit Hub, and The Week* Fifteen brilliant writers explore how what we don’t talk about...

“A magic curtain, woven of legends, hung before the world. Cervantes sent Don Quixote journeying and tore through the curtain. The world opened before the knight-errant in...

"Rachel Kushner narrates these essays precisely and warmly. Her voice, assured and practiced, moves the text along. An admired novelist, she's a fine storyteller who uses...

Em "Pensamentos de paz durante um ataque aéreo", Virginia Woolf vai nos conduzindo na busca por nossa serenidade perdida. Como ter um pensamento de paz enquanto bombas caem ao...

This book sheds light on gender politics and structures of power that can be found in new media, as a single structure that can be found in any game. This book brings to the...

A raw and tenderly funny look at the human-cat relationship, from one of our most treasured and transgressive writers.“The cat is the beautiful devil.”Felines touched...

In The Art of Memoir, master memoirist Mary Karr synthesizes her expertise as professor and therapy patient, writer and spiritual seeker, recovered alcoholic and “black-belt...