'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 ...

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 ...

This fall’s literary nonfiction disproves, or at least complicates, the notion that the writer’s life is a lonely one. Collections of correspondence capture authors in conversation with family members ...

There is fortunate timing to the Library of America’s bringing out in two volumes Edmund Wilson’s Literary Essays and Reviews of the 1920s & 30s and Literary Essays and Reviews of the 1930s & ...

I count myself lucky. Weird, I know, in this day and age when all around us the natural and political world is going to hell in a handbasket. But that, in fact, may be part of it. Back when I started ...

No. 59 Oregon men’s tennis (14-8, 5-6 Big Ten) snapped a five-match losing streak in a 4-2 victory over the Penn State Nittany Lions (16-11,... Some say April showers bring May flowers, and today the ...

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 ...