'One might, at an early age, wish to be a poet or a dramatist or a novelist or even possibly a critic," Joseph Epstein writes in "A Literary Education," his 13th collection of essays. "One somehow ...

Wigtown Company has today launched the 2026 Anne Brown Essay Prize for the best literary essay by a writer in, or from, Scotland.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... If you give credence to the various claims of book publishers, short-story collections don’t sell, poetry books don’t sell, essays don’t sell. That such ...

On any given afternoon, in classrooms across Uganda and beyond, literature teachers are confronting a quiet but profound ...

Literary Awakenings: Personal Essays from the Hudson Review edited by Ronald Koury (Nov. 15, trade paper, $24.95, ISBN 978-0-8156-1078-6). Over the past three decades, the Hudson Review has become a ...

The invaluable Library of America continues its great work with the publication of a new volume of collected essays by Wilson. U.S. policymakers and academic students of international relations are ...

Fittingly for uncertain times, this fall authors emphasize the value of returning to old literary favorites. The season won’t be strictly nostalgic, however, and will see its fair share of debuts and ...