Product Description: As editor of the quarterly Salmagundi for the past fifty years, Robert Boyers has been on the cutting edge of developments in politics, culture, and the arts. Reflecting on his collaborations and quarrels with some of the twentieth century's most transformative writers, artists, and thinkers, Boyers writes a wholly original intellectual memoir that rigorously confronts selected aspects of contemporary society...read more

Product Description: In these elegant essays, many of them originally written for The New Republic and Harper's, Robert Boyers examines the role of the political imagination in shaping the works of such important contemporary writers as W. G. Sebald and Philip Roth, Nadine Gordimer and Mario Vargas Llosa, Natalia Ginzburg and Pat Barker, J...read more

Product Description: Tightly focused, European in feel, portraits of men and women in distress. A fearless investigation into the fundamental eccentricity of life.

Product Description: Cultural Writing. Literary Criticism. Includes essays on Carolyn Forche, Louise Gluck, Joseph Brodsky, Seamus Heaney, Robert Hass, Robert Pinsky, C.K. Williams, Gail Mazur, Robert Lowell, Saul Bellow, Bernard Malamud, Bharati Mukherjee, Joyce Carol Oates, Rick Moody, Susan Sontag and more...read more

Product Description: The psychologist Leslie Farber, who died in 1981, has been revered as one of the most astute observers of the human condition and a writer of penetrating wisdom. His essays, on topics as diverse as the pornographic anguish of jealousy and the despair of psychotherapy, were collected in 1966 (The Ways of the Will) and 1976 (Lying, Despair, Jealousy, Envy, Sex, Suicide, Drugs, and the Good Life) and have been out of print for nearly twenty years...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Selections of the last thirteen years, from Nobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney to historian John Boswell. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Working deliberately against the grain of assumptions dominant in the contemporary literary academy, Boyers examines novels by Günter Grass, Gabriel Garcia Márquez, Milan Kundera and others, arguing that it is necessary to speak of character, ethics, and philosophic purpose if one is to understand these works...read more

Product Description: From the University of Missouri's Literary Frontiers series.

Product Description: Book by Boyers, Robert