The letters in this collection, published here for the first time and edited by Clark (The American Vision of Robert Penn Warren), span a decade in the life of the critic, poet and novelist Warren Continue reading »
Sixty Years of American Poetry: Celebrating the Anniversary of the Academy of American Poets updates the 1984 anthology published to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Academy. Here, 75 poems by Continue reading »
These 13 magisterial literary essays, dating from 1942 to 1973, by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and novelist Warren, contain sevenon Coleridge, Conrad, Faulkner, Frost, Hemingway and Melvillethat were Continue reading »
For those overwhelmed by the recent Collected Poems of Robert Penn Warren, the editor of that volume, Brandeis professor of English John Burt, has culled The Selected Poems of Robert Penn Warren. As Continue reading »
Readers of Huxley’s Brave New World will find glimmers of that book’s dark humor and sterling powers of observation in this stellar 1923 lampoon of English intellectualism after Continue reading »
An ordinary man suffers an existential crisis in Nobel laureate Pirandello’s fascinating 1926 novel, freshly translated by Wilsey. Vitangelo Moscarda spirals after his wife, Continue reading »
Winner of the Prix Goncourt, this sweeping tale from Andrea (A Hundred Million Years and a Day) comprises a dying artist’s account of how he came to make his mysterious Continue reading »
In the deeply intelligent and endlessly supple latest from McEwan (Lessons), a pair of scholars look back on the present day from a future Britain radically transformed by Continue reading »