There is fortunate timing to the Library of America’s bringing out in two volumes Edmund Wilson’s Literary Essays and Reviews of the 1920s & 30s and Literary Essays and Reviews of the 1930s & ...

"How does Tagore intoxicate a growing young man . . . .? How has Dhaka transitioned through the Partition of Bengal and the birth of the University of Dhaka? . . . . how does one remember-- with ...

Ideas, Thoughts and Memories: Bengali Literary Essays: A Selection in Translation is collection of Bangla literary essays starting from Bhudeb Mukhopadhyay (1827–1894) to the contemporary Anita ...

Everyone loves a hero, especially if he’s dead. The heroes of Cynthia Ozick’s new collection of essays are all gone. Lionel Trilling, Edmund Wilson, Saul Bellow, Bernard Malamud — this is the frieze ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. All great writers have a life and an afterlife. The afterlife begins with the reassessment of the oeuvre and ...

The season will see past masters celebrated and the trade secrets of contemporary writers revealed. Other titles will track authors’ lives through their letters and survey the literary footprints left ...

The word essay comes from the French word ‘essayer’ meaning ‘to try’ or ‘to attempt’. A French writer called Michel de Montaigne invented the essay in Europe as his ‘attempt’ to write about himself ...

WHO was Urdu’s first essay writer? This may be a tricky question. Dr Jameel Jalibi thinks it was Sir Syed Ahmed Khan. In his Tareekh-i-adab-i-Urdu, or history of Urdu literature, Dr Jalibi has ...

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 ...