Book Reviews
- Benedict Anderson: Under Three Flags
Anarchism and the Anti-Colonial Imagination
- Marleen S. Barr: Envisioning the Future
Science Fiction and the Next Millennium
- Elif Batuman: The Possessed
Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them
- Jorge Luis Borges: The Total Library*
Non-Fiction 1922-1986
- Nicholas Boyle: German Literature: A Very Short Introduction
- between the bourgeoisie and officialdom
- Caroline Walker Bynum: Metamorphosis and Identity
- medieval change, wonder, mixture, and hybridity
- Angela Carter: The Sadeian Woman
And the Ideology of Pornography
- J.M. Coetzee: Giving Offense
Essays on Censorship
- Frederick Crews: Postmodern Pooh**
- biting parody of modern literary criticism
- Frederick Crews: The Pooh Perplex*
- hilariously funny literary criticism of Winnie the Pooh
- Christopher de Hamel: Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts
- the histories and lives of twelve medieval books
- Glen Dudbridge: Lost Books of Medieval China*
- learning from the reconstruction of lost texts
- Antony Easthope, Kate McGowan: A Critical and Cultural Theory Reader
- my take on postmodernism and cultural studies
- Umberto Eco: On Literature
- an assortment of literary criticism
- Rick Gekoski: Tolkien's Gown
And Other Stories of Great Authors and Rare Books
- Coulter H. George: How Dead Languages Work
- a linguistic, historical + literary potpourri covering six languages
- Peter Gilliver, et al.: The Ring of Words
Tolkien and the Oxford English Dictionary
- William Golding: A Moving Target
- short pieces on travel and writing
- M.O. Grenby, Andrea Immel: The Cambridge Companion to Children's Literature
- sixteen essays
- Daniel Hahn: The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature
- an encyclopedia covering authors in English and their work
- Wayne G. Hammond, Christina Scull: The Lord of the Rings 1954-2004
Scholarship in Honor of Richard E. Blackwelder
- Patrick Hanan: The Chinese Vernacular Story
- Feng Menglong, Ling Menchu, Li Yu, ...
- Edward R. Haymes, Susann T. Samples: Heroic Legends of the North*
An Introduction to the Nibelung and Dietrich Cycles
- Peter Hunt: An Introduction to Children's Literature
- a lively and opinionated history
- P.D. James: Talking about Detective Fiction
- a brief history and overview of the genre
- Ray Keenoy, et al.: The Babel Guide to Hungarian Literature
- a guide to fiction, drama, and poetry available in English
- Justine Larbalestier: The Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction
- a feminist history, from the earliest magazines to the Tiptree Award
- Justine Larbalestier: Daughters of Earth
Feminist Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century
- Ursula K. Le Guin: Dancing at the Edge of the World*
Thoughts on Words, Women, Places
- André Lévy: Chinese Literature, Ancient and Classical*
- an overview, with extracts, in just 150 pages
- C.S. Lewis: The Discarded Image
An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature
- Huw Lewis-Jones: The Writer's Map*
An Atlas of Imaginary Lands
- Joss Marsh: Word Crimes
Blasphemy, Culture, and Literature in Nineteenth-Century England
- Harry Mathews, Alastair Brotchie: Oulipo Compendium**
- people, works, and forms, with extensive examples
- Laura McClure: Spoken Like a Woman
Speech and Gender in Athenian Drama
- Franco Moretti: Graphs, Maps, Trees
Abstract Models for Literary History
- Warren F. Motte Jr: Oulipo
A Primer of Potential Literature
- Rob Nieuwenhuys: Mirror of the Indies
A History of Dutch Colonial Literature
- M.A. Orthofer: The Complete Review: A Site History
Eleven Years, 2500 Reviews
- Alexei Panshin, Cory Panshin: The World Beyond the Hill
Science Fiction and the Quest for Transcendence
- Mark Rappolt: Georges Perec and Paris*
- criticism, poetry, fiction, architecture, photography
- Scott Richardson: The Homeric Narrator
- narratorial presence in the Iliad and Odyssey
- Paula Richman: Many Ramayanas
The Diversity of a Narrative Tradition in South Asia
- John Rieder: Colonialism and the Emergence of Science Fiction
- explorations in the ideological background of early sf
- David Rudd: The Routledge Companion to Children's Literature
- theory and critical approaches
- Andrew Schonebaum, Tina Lu: Approaches to Teaching The Story of the Stone (Dream of the Red Chamber)
- historical + cultural contexts, intertextuality, afterlives, pedagogy
- Tom Shippey: Fictional Space
Essays on Contemporary Science Fiction
- Tom Shippey: The Road to Middle-Earth; J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century
- George Slusser, et al.: Immortal Engines
Life Extension and Immortality in Science Fiction and Fantasy
- Peter Swirski, Stanislaw Lem: A Stanislaw Lem Reader
- interviews, essays, and bibliographies
- Thomas L. Thompson: The Bible in History
How Writers Create a Past
- James Tiptree Jr: Meet Me at Infinity
- uncollected science fiction and nonfiction
- J.R.R. Tolkien: The Monsters and the Critics
And Other Essays
- Leon Trotsky: On Literature and Art
- a literary critic as well as a revolutionary and a political theorist
- Dubravka Ugresic: The Culture of Lies*
- literature, culture and ex-Yugoslav nationalisms
- Dubravka Ugresic: Thank You For Not Reading
Essays on Literary Trivia
- Marina Warner: Once Upon a Time*
A Short History of Fairy Tale
- Anthony C. Yu: Rereading the Stone
Desire and the Making of Fiction in Dream of the Red Chamber
- Yevgeny Zamyatin: A Soviet Heretic*
- essays on Russian literature from the decade after the Revolution
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