Literary

Reimagine your favorite women authors as badass witches! Part encyclopedia, part poetry, part illustrated manuscript, …

Want to make sure your kid grows up with a love for books, and not just a smartphone addiction? This adorably …

This book wasn't written for most people - give the title another look - but it's a living …

Bring Me Your Love is a dark short story about a cheating lover accompanied by the beautiful illustrations of R. Crumb. …

Inspired by a bag labeled "To Throw Away Unopened" she found when sorting through her mother's …

Who you gonna call?

No, Orwell's novel 1984 was not a government manual. Nobody's using this as their actual playbook... …

George Orwell was the author of 1984 and he was weirdly prescient. Big Brother is in fact watching you.

A collection of Ursula K. Le Guin's best blog posts through the years, this book contains musings on life and how …

A collection of short stories set in a dystopian near-future. Titled after the consumer "holiday,"  the …

This is the best novel I've read in years. Vivek Shraya weaves a page-turning web of friendship, …

Taken from the book Literary Witches: A Celebration of Magical Women Writers, this divination deck draws on the …

A hypertext memoir, in a series of vignettes, some in the style of a choose-your-own adventure novel that traps you in …

Walking from Manhattan to Henry David Thoreau's cabin, a naturalist and Thoreau scholar reflects on the lessons …

A legendary book, bestseller in 1926, and hovering at the edge of our memory since; the favorite book of William …

This short, sweet novel manages to be both funny and profoundly respectful of its oddball characters. Keiko, a woman …

The third of five new books of unpublished poems from the late, great, Charles Bukowski, considered by many to be …

In this moving, tender, and heart-breaking memoir, Jennifer Finney Boylan tells the story of her life through seven …

George Orwell's classic novel of a dystopian far future that's already come more true than he ever probably …

Is any poem more infamous, or long, or definitive of its era than this epic yawp by Allen Ginsburg? Published in 1956 …

The renowned wit, humor, and literary excellence of Oscar Wilde, combined with his ruthless persecution as a gay man …

This brief but inclusive biography of Franz Kafka and summary of many of his works, all illustrated by Crumb, helps us …

Charles Bukowski, poet, novelist, short-story writer, journalist, and cult figure of the dissident and rebellious was …

In this graphic novel adaptation of Lovecraft's classic polar exploration cosmic horror, I.N.J. Culbard chills …

Frank Portman of the Mr. T Experience wrote this coming of age novel about misfit weirdo Tom Henderson. Tom is entering …

The Dil Pickle Club was an underground literary nightspot in Chicago from 1914-1933, home to hobohemians, Newberry …

Grace Paley, 1922–2007. Poet laureate, educator, peace activist, feminist, short story writer."It is the …

Kathleen Collins was a filmmaker, poet, writer, activist, and educator, who died young in the 1980s, leaving most of …

The 56th issue of Cometbus is a loving ethnography of New York City's wild, weird, and bearded used book trade. …