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(photo: John Reeves) The Ontario Arts Council has named playwright and poet Daniel David Moses the winner of its $10,000 Aboriginal Arts Award. Founded in 2012, the prize recognizes work of excellence by Ontario First Nations artists. It is announced...

IN THE LAST YEAR and a half, literary studies lost two titans: M. H. Abrams, at 102 in April 2015, and Daniel Aaron, who died this past spring, at 103. The careers of these two men were built on their early books: Abrams’s studies of British Romanticism...

John D’Agata has accomplished an impressive feat. In three thick volumes, over 13 years, he has published a series of anthologies—of the contemporary American essay, of the world essay, and now of the historical American essay—that misrepresents what...

How do we define the essay? Ask a hundred writers and you’ll get a hundred answers—which is, of course, the whole idea. “You have to push yourself,” John D’Agata notes in A New History of the Essay, “push your peers, push your readers, push your critics...

Was the personal essay about the bar and restaurant I’d spent time in from age eight to twenty-one best presented in a collage of chronological memories that would suggest to the reader that I had grown up there? Or, would arranging paragraphs about...