The Amen Corner: A Play

Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age

Other Colors: Essays and a Story

Big Fiction: How Conglomeration Changed the Publishing Industry and American Literature

The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem

Poems (Unabridged)

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Marquez (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide

The Most Dangerous Book: The Battle for James Joyce’s Ulysses

J. R. R. Tolkien: The Mind Behind the Rings

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide

The Untold Story of the Talking Book

The Ministry of Truth: The Biography of George Orwell's 1984

The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World

The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide

Lolita in the Afterlife: On Beauty, Risk, and Reckoning with the Most Indelible and Shocking Novel of the Twentieth Century

The Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books

The Year of Our Lord 1943: Christian Humanism in an Age of Crisis

Critics, Monsters, Fanatics, and Other Literary Essays

Hemingway's Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost, 1934-1961

Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin: Writers Running Wild in the Twenties