B&N Reads
One pivotal book can contour a whole life, if encountered at just the right moment. So it was for Mead and Middlemarch. Her triumph here is to make the reader care about...
Why George Eliot's Victorian life still instructs -- and delights.
A fitting capstone to Philip Roth's recent retirement, Pierpont's insightful overview captures not only the journalistic details of Roth's life and literary output, but also the essential...
The newest addition to Graywolf Press’s “Art of” series, this revealing study probes the delicate construction of fictional relationships – between lovers, friends, enemies, and even...
The author's reflections on the turmoil in the land of his birth speak with renewed urgency.
Spanning the globe with adventurous writers in exotic locales throughout history.
Scholar and critic Bharat Tandon, who has previously written Jane Austen and the Morality of Conversation, now delivers an enriching set of footnotes to one of the most cherished...
A novelist traces the lives of the writers whose voices echo in his imagination.
A new collection helps readers to appreciate the "new yet unapproachable" American thinker.
The globe-trotting essayist contemplates his greatest influence.