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James Baldwin’s first nonfiction collection, “Notes of a Native Son,” offers powerful essays on Harlem life, civil rights, and race relations that remain relevant today.

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A candid memoir of Katharine Graham, detailing her family’s rise, the Washington Post’s transformation, and her own path to leadership as a pioneering female publisher.

Virginia Woolf’s collection of 28 essays, sketches and short stories explores her literary craft, critique of women authors, and British literary culture, offering a multifaceted view of her work.

A curated collection of 57 excerpts revealing Graham Greene’s private world—from interviews and diary entries to essays and recollections—offering insight into his conversion to Catholicism, his role in society, and his interactions with contemporary writers.

The essential R.K. Narayan. Forty essays, travel pieces, character sketches and short stories from India's greatest living novelist, the majority collected here for the first time. The three sections of the book: 'The Fiction-Writer', 'Short Essays' and 'Malgudi Sketches and Stories' provide a rare glimpse into R.K. Narayan's beginnings as a writer and his evolution into a world-renowned novelist. More importantly, each essay and story is in itself a triumph of Narayan's genius as a close and perceptive observer of the small and ordinary things of life. Finally, taken together, the pieces in this collection (on crowds, films, restaurants, clothes, cats, the English language and school-children among others) give the reader fresh insights into the distinctive aspects of the Indian South which finally achieved immortality in the fictional world of Malgudi.