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Volume 6 of a new selection of the best works of William Hazlitt (1778-1830), an energetic and unique essayist with much to offer the modern reader. He writes compellingly on many topics. Edited by Abeecy Deffh.

John Gilbert Cooper (1722 –1769) was a British poet and writer. In this philosophical work Cooper expresses his views on life that corresponds to the Shaftesbury-Hutchesonian thesis of the internal sense, emphasizes the personal, ecstatic effect of taste. While accepting the rationalist...

Table Talk is a portable dinner party and a book to read alone while laughing out loud. Table Talk is a salon attended by your smartest friends and by all of the wittiest people they know. Table Talk is a collection of brief but critically acclaimed, half serious/half tongue-in-cheek pieces that borrow...

In his third book of essays, David Lazar blends personal meditations on sex and death with considerations of popular music and coping with anxiety through singing, bowling, and other distractions. He sets his work apart as both in the essay and of the essay by throwing himself into the form’s past—interviewing...

Gedankengut ist nicht nur eine Attacke vom Typ Psycho, die seit der 3. Generation bei Pokemon existiert. Gedankengut ist eine Sammlung mit den religiös-politischen Essays von Hassan Mohsen aus den Jahren 2010-2016. In den Essays geht es um den Widerstand gegen äußere Ketten (Imperialisten) und innere Zwänge (schlechte Gewohnheiten). Gedanken gut, alles gut.

One of our best cultural critics here collects sixteen years' worth of essays on film and popular culture. Topics range from the invention of cinema to contemporary F-X aesthetics, from Shakespeare on film to Seinfeld, and we include essays on 30's screwball comedies, Hong Kong Martial Arts movies,...

A “scintillating collection” of essays on Disneyland, medieval times, and much more, from the author of Foucault’s Pendulum (Los Angeles Times). Collected here are some of Umberto Eco’s finest popular essays, recording the incisive and surprisingly entertaining observations of his restless...

This is an amalgam of essays from insights into literary analysis, from interpretations on philosophy, literature, art and  aesthetics and so on. The writer has indulged in the metaphor as a tool of interpretative writing. The essays can be enjoyed from an analytical  point of view or be struck with the  pulchritude of content that a reader reaches the sublime of a catharsis. 

This collection of essays historicizes and theorizes forgetting in English Renaissance literary texts and their cultural contexts. Its essays open up an area of study overlooked by contemporary Renaissance scholarship, which is too often swayed by a critical paradigm devoted to the "art of memory."...

With its title harkening back to the sack of Baghdad in 1258-when the Tigris ran black with the ink of books flung into the water by Mongol invaders-River of Ink is a collection of essays that range widely across time and cultures to illuminate the role of literature and art throughout history. Christensen...

Internationally acclaimed as one of the most innovative writers today, Eliot Weinberger has taken the essay into unexplored territories on the borders of poetry and narrative where the only rule, according to the author, is that all the information must be verifiable. With An Elemental Thing,...

A miscellany of sorts, preeminent author and critic Nicholas Delbanco’s *Curiouser and Curiouser *attests to a lifelong interest in music and the visual arts as well as both “mere” and “sheer” literature. With essays ranging from the restoration of his father-in-law’s famed Stradivarius...

In this collection of linked lyrical and narrative essays, experimental translations, and reinterpreted myths, Lina Maria Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas launches into an exploration of home and identity, family history and belonging, continually examining what it means to feel familiarity but never really...