Douglas resident Corinna Cook, author of the previous essay collection “Leavetakings,” was the recipient of a Fulbright fellowship for a research year in Canada’s Yukon Territory. Her new book is the ...

She is such a maverick that it is difficult to pick only one striking characteristic. The fact that she is the youngest congresswoman ever might be the obvious choice, or perhaps that her work uniform ...

The seven essays in Anne Fadiman’s new collection, “Frog and Other Essays” (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) are not all amphibious in theme. While the title essay recalls the so-called life of her family’s ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A collection of essays by the late David McCullough, including some never published before, will be released this fall. “History Matters” is scheduled for Sept. 16, Simon & Schuster ...

This post was updated Nov. 30 at 7:38 p.m. UCLA English professor Claire McEachern is stepping away from her typical scholarly writing with “Coyotes and Culture: Essays from Old Malibu.” McEachern, ...

Novelist Ann Patchett energetically resists all efforts to identify autobiographical elements in her fiction, but she has never been averse to personal writing in general: In fact, as she explains in ...

The 25 essays in Brian Blanchfield’s Proxies are erudite and intensely personal, deftly traversing the distance between the intellectual and the corporeal, between the meditative and the resolute. His ...