Bataille: a critical reader
Fred Botting ed.
Blackwell, 1998
848 B328zb
"Bataille: A Critical Reader is a careful selection of some of the best and most interesting critical work on this elusive and often obscure thinker." John Smith, University of Sussex
The Essential Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore
Harvard, 2011
891.448 T128e
"There have been a number of attempts, in the century since Yeats made [the] request, to give the English reader a fuller and more accurate sense of Rabindranath Tagore--through new translations, anthologies of his work, critical studies, and biographies. But The Essential Tagore, published to coincide with the hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary of Tagore's birth, is the most substantial one yet."
--Adam Kirsch (New Yorker )
Literary Brooklyn: the writers of Brooklyn and the story of American city life
Evan Hughes
Henry Holt, 2011
810.9974 H893L
“Smart…[Hughes] has perceptive things to say about Brooklyn’s tangled relationship to American lit. He traces the way writers have absorbed Brooklyn’s scruffy, somewhat persecuted mindset...Literary Brooklyn is at its best in the details and quotations Mr. Hughes plucks from Brooklyn writers’ lives; his book becomes a pleasure-delivery system.”—The New York Times
Selected Prose Works
C.P. Cavafy
Univ. Michigan, 2010
889.8 C376s
"A timely and significant supplement to C. P. Cavafy's poetic canon, the Selected Prose Works, eloquently translated and meticulously annotated by Peter Jeffreys, allows readers yet another creative engagement with the greatest Greek writer since antiquity. Marked by a wide and intriguing range of interests, these writings offer a rich trove for general readers and scholars alike, who from now on will find it difficult to discuss Cavafy's poetry without reference to his prose."
---Vassilis Lambropoulos, C. P. Cavafy Professor of Modern Greek, University of Michigan
Twenty-five Books That Shaped America
Thomas Foster
Harper, 2011
810.9 F757t
“Foster is a witty, quirkily provocative, and perceptive literary critic.” (Publishers Weekly )
includes: Last of the Mohicans, Leaves of Grass, My Antonia, Sun Also Rises, Maltese Falcon, On the Road...