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A collection of personal essays written between 1976 and 1983 for The Dallas Times Herald.

This year's Best American Magazine Writing features outstanding writing on contentious issues including incarceration, policing, sexual assault, labor, technology, and environmental catastroph

Acclaimed literary critic George Steiner on two of the literary canon's greatest and most influential writers "Literary criticism," writes Steiner, "should arise out of a debt o

Four of the most important and enduring American slave narratives together in one volume.

In Japanese gardens, composition follows from placement of the first stone; all elements and plantings become interconnected.

Immoral Views is a collection of titillating tales of voyeuristic sex, written by five of erotica's sultriest mistresses.

How do we make sense of the modern world' Science is a profoundly affecting aspect of contemporary life, and yet the gulf between experts and everyone else is widening.

The craft of craft, the art of craft - here in Canada we're just starting to really talk about these things.

Everybody loves the movies.

'The streets are full of admirable craftsmen, but so few practical dreamers.' - Man Ray What if there were movies made the same way as suits, custom fitted, each one tailored for one person' Not br

"The days of poets moping around castle steps wearing black capes is over.

In the summer of 2009, Miranda July was struggling to finish writing the screenplay for her much-anticipated second film.

A collection of essays on the topic of the law and legal affairs, selected in order to give readers samples of the ways in which the subject of law relates to the study of ourselves and our times.

This month's Digital Edition serves up eight irresistible courses from LARB's Food and Drink section.

As any historian or casual observer of urban transformation might tell you, walls are not everlasting.