Fittingly for uncertain times, this fall authors emphasize the value of returning to old literary favorites. The season won’t be strictly nostalgic, however, and will see its fair share of debuts and ...

'One might, at an early age, wish to be a poet or a dramatist or a novelist or even possibly a critic," Joseph Epstein writes in "A Literary Education," his 13th collection of essays. "One somehow ...

Literary Awakenings: Personal Essays from the Hudson Review edited by Ronald Koury (Nov. 15, trade paper, $24.95, ISBN 978-0-8156-1078-6). Over the past three decades, the Hudson Review has become a ...

An essay is a piece of non-fiction writing with a clear structure: an introduction, paragraphs with evidence and a conclusion. Writing an essay is an important skill in English and allows you to show ...

“Author as well as professor,” was how Winfried Georg (“Max”) Sebald styled himself in the note attached to an article he contributed to a 1990 issue of the experimental Austrian journal, Trans-Garde.