A weekly series in which Eileen Battersbyrevisits titles from the literary canon.

Presidential memoirs have contributed little to the literary canon, a tradition many believe Barack Obama will change.

Scotland's National poet, Jackie Kay, tells the story of how Zora would later become part of America's literary canon.

The novel is a scream of human perversity, and the most unflinching study of self-loathing in the literary canon.

By now she has a firm foothold in the Irish literary canon, although some establishment writers still sniff at her.

What follows is a selection of the best -or at least most fascinating -entries into the hip-hop literary canon.

Gear reviews seem to have emerged concurrently to the outdoor industry itself, though pithy references to gear are peppered across our sport's literary canon.

Last year was the bicentennial of Thoreau's birth, resulting in a number of new titles on one of the giants of the American literary canon.

You woke up this morning, got yourself some Yeats.Isn't it heartening the way TV - occasionally anyway - knows the worth of the literary canon.

For half a century Michael Harlow has added to New Zealand's literary canon as a poet and librettist and also as a publisher and mentor.

Herman Melville (1819-1891), now at the center of the American literary canon, was wildly dismissed for this labyrinthine effort.

But Southey had himself faith as well as a literary canon higher than that of his opponent who wrote only to "please" his patrons.

Such literary canons as these could only be accepted by minds long inured to provincial, literary, and social slavery.