Real Toads, Imaginary Gardens: On Reading and Writing Poetry Forensically

Eros the Bittersweet

The Broken Country: On Trauma, a Crime, and the Continuing Legacy of Vietnam

1,000 Books to Read Before You Die: A Life-Changing List

The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee: Observations on Not Fitting In

The Literature Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism

Better Living Through Criticism: How to Think About Art, Pleasure, Beauty, and Truth

The Battles of Tolkien: An Illustrate Exploration of the Battles of Tolkien's World, and the Sources that Inspired his Work from Myth, Literature and History

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The Incarnational Art of Flannery O'Connor

Weird Westerns: Race, Gender, Genre

Recovered Legacies: Authority And Identity In Early Asian Amer Lit

Frameworks: Narrative Levels and Embedded Narrative

Ghalib: The Poet and his Age

Longman Anthology of Old English, Old Icelandic, and Anglo-Norman Literatures

Moral Complexities in Turn of the Millennium British Literature

Any Person Is the Only Self: Essays

The Wizard of Mecosta: Russell Kirk, Gothic Fiction, and the Moral Imagination

The Artist As Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde