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A collection of Caldecott Medalist Maurice Sendak's critical writings devoted to authors and artists whose work he admired, including Randolph Caldecott, Beatrix Potter, and Walt Disney, along with several interviews and autobiographical pieces. Now with a new introduction by Sergio Ruzzier!...

Explore the Stories Behind the Legends In the mid-1970s, Misty Knight burst onto the pages of Marvel Comics. Before Storm, Shuri, or Riri, Misty opened the doors of comics as Marvel’s first Black woman super hero. A detective and martial artist with a bionic arm that gives her heroic strength...

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From two of the most acclaimed writers in the field today, a groundbreaking look at how SF and fantasy writing―and reading!―work. Jo Walton and Ada Palmer are two of the most innovative and insightful writers to emerge in the SF and fantasy genres in this century. As writers of fiction...

From our earliest campfire legends to our biggest blockbuster movies, a deep dive into the stories we tell about water and the horrors it hides In the 300,000 years Homo sapiens have walked the planet, we’ve explored less than 30% of the ocean. Yet, again and again, we’re pulled under by our...

A lyrical and devastatingly funny meditation on books, grief, and language I have come to the realization—finally!—that I hate reading, and that I have always hated reading but have pretended to like it for social reasons. Now I see clearly. Books are stuffy and ludicrous. Full of quotations...

Widely perceived as a writer of cosy, old-fashioned mysteries rooted in the interwar years, Agatha Christie was in fact one of the most culturally engaged authors of the 1960s. Far from being a relic of a bygone era, Christie lived at the heart of Swinging London, travelled the world into her...

Coded messages, hidden carvings, ciphered pendants: what if the secrets of the women of Renaissance England are hidden in plain sight? Now celebrated as an artistic and literary golden age, the Renaissance was more complicated—and turbulent—than we remember, especially for women. Royals vied...

A Year of Shakespeare gives a uniquely expert and exciting overview of the largest Shakespeare celebration the world has ever known: the World Shakespeare Festival 2012. This is the only book to describe and analyse each of the Festival’s 73 productions in well-informed,lively reviews by...

Perfect for students of English Literature, Theatre Studies and American Studies at college and university, The Theatre of Tennessee Williams provides a lucid and stimulating analysis of Willams' dramatic work by one of America's leading scholars. With the centennial of his birth celebrated amid...

Horror Podcasting argues that podcasting, as an aural medium, is about the mind. Horror is an inward-style of storytelling, and yet the reception of the podcast can be an embodied form of listening. This intersection creates conditions for a subject/listener collapse (which results in immersion)...

This open access study offers queer readings of 10 key film productions of Shakespeare plays from the past 80 years. A range of mainstream and independent English language film productions of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo and Juliet, Othello, Twelfth Night, and The Merchant of Venice take...

Take a tour of New York City as inspiration, place and context in the work of America's greatest playwright of the 20th century, brought to life with images from Miller's time and today. Readers of the work of Arthur Miller will be familiar with the presence of NYC in much of his work. In Arthur...

The Disney Musical: Critical Approaches on Stage and Screen is the first critical treatment of the corporation's hugely successful musicals both on screen and on the stage. Its 13 articles open up a new territory in the critical discussion of the Disney mega-musical, its gender, sexual and...

A Mind Awake, a new William Collins book, full description to follow when available...

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. We live with wallpaper not only indoors, but also in art, cinema, fashion, video games, and in our desktops and smart phones. A papered wall can represent a kind of unrelenting screen time...

From his fiction set in the world of Middle-earth to his influential scholarship on Beowulf and fairy stories, J. R. R. Tolkien is the father of fantasy literature. Tropes, character-types and his own personal history have inspired the fantasy genre for generations but the sheer size of his...

During the Cold War, science and spy fiction moved from the cultural margins to reach new heights of popularity. Spies, Scientists, and Cold War Fictions explores how these genres didn’t just reflect the era – they shaped the diplomatic, military, and scientific realities of the day. Joshua...

A groundbreaking exploration of one of America's most iconic and misunderstood authors Edgar Allan Poe: A Life is the most comprehensive critical biography of Poe yet produced, exploring his fascinating life, his extraordinary work, and the vital relationship between the two. Best known for his...

A provocative and transformative tour through literature as an insight into despair and how to understand it, and why the practice of reading is needed more than ever—based on the wildly popular UPenn course Existential Despair. Imagine a class that meets for eight hours once a week. There are...