850 articles
Christ Stopped at Eboli
Christ Stopped at Eboli (Cristo si è fermato a Eboli) is Carlo Levi's 1945 memoir of his 1935 Fascist-era confino in Lucania, southern Italy; adapted by Francesco Rosi into a 1979 film in 150-minute theatrical and four-part television versions.
Chronica Hungarorum
Chronica Hungarorum (A magyarok krónikája) is a chronicle of Hungarian history by János Thuróczy, first printed in 1488, covering the Hungarians from mythical origins to 1487.
Chronicle of Matthew of Edessa
The Chronicle of Matthew of Edessa, an Armenian work also called Zhamanakagrutyun, covers events from 952 to 1136, with a continuation by Gregory the Priest to 1162.
Chronicles
The Chronicles are a French prose chronicle by Jean Froissart covering Western European wars from 1326 to 1400, the main source for the early Hundred Years' War.
Collier's Encyclopedia
Collier's Encyclopedia was an American general encyclopedia from P.F. Collier & Son, in print 1902–1997, growing from 16 to 24 volumes, with 25,000 signed articles; a peer of Americana and Britannica.
Common Ground
Common Ground is a 1985 work of narrative nonfiction by J. Anthony Lukas recounting Boston's school desegregation conflict through three families; it won the 1986 Pulitzer Prize.
Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith
Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith is JD Vance's 2026 HarperCollins memoir, sequel to Hillbilly Elegy, recounting his 2019 Catholic conversion after an evangelical childhood and atheist years, and arguing for Christianity in public life; reviews were largely negative.
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater is Thomas De Quincey's autobiographical account of his laudanum addiction, first published anonymously in 1821 and considered the first memoir of drug addiction.
Confieso que he vivido
Confieso que he vivido ("I confess that I have lived"), known in English as Memoirs, is the memoir of Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, published posthumously in 1974.
Conflictos y armonías de las razas en América
Conflictos y armonías de las razas en América is an 1883 sociological and polemical book by Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, extending his Facundo from politics into race.
Considerations on the Greatness and Decadence of the Romans
Considerations on the Greatness and Decadence of the Romans is a political-philosophical essay by Montesquieu, published anonymously in Amsterdam in 1734, which explains over ten centuries of Roman history through general human causes rather than fortune.
Conversation About Dante
Conversation About Dante (Разговор о Данте) is an essay by the Russian poet Osip Mandelstam on Dante's Divine Comedy, written in 1933 in Koktebel, Crimea.
Crashing Thunder: The Autobiography of a Winnebago Indian
Crashing Thunder: The Autobiography of a Winnebago Indian is a 1926 book telling the life of Sam Blowsnake, a Ho-Chunk (Winnebago) man, edited by anthropologist Paul Radin.
Create Dangerously
Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work is a 2010 essay collection by Edwidge Danticat, published by Princeton University Press, examining art made from exile and crisis.
Creative nonfiction
Creative nonfiction (CNF), also called literary or narrative nonfiction, is a genre of true stories told with fiction's narrative techniques, spanning memoir, personal essay, and literary journalism; defined by factual accuracy plus vivid craft, with roots in New Journalism and a journal founded by Lee Gutkind in 1993.
Criticism
Criticism, from Greek kritēs (judge), is the judgment and interpretation of works, chiefly literary and artistic. Also called critique (Kantian sense); distinct from review and textual criticism. Technical sense differs from everyday negative meaning.
Cultural Amnesia
Cultural Amnesia is a 2007 book of more than 100 alphabetical biographical essays by Australian critic Clive James, defending liberal humanism against the totalitarianisms of the left and right.
Culture and Anarchy
Culture and Anarchy is an 1869 book by Matthew Arnold arguing that culture, the pursuit of human perfection through "the best which has been thought and said," is the remedy for anarchy in industrializing England.
Cutting It Short
Cutting It Short (Czech: Postřižiny) is a memoir novel by Czech writer Bohumil Hrabal, narrated by Maryška, the young wife of a brewery manager in Nymburk in the 1920s.
Cyclopædia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences
Cyclopædia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, also known as Chambers's Cyclopaedia, is a two-volume English encyclopedia compiled by Ephraim Chambers and published in London in 1728.
D. João VI no Brasil
D. João VI no Brasil (1808–1821) is Oliveira Lima's two-volume masterpiece of 1908, rehabilitating the king as founder of Brazilian nationality during the court's Rio de Janeiro residence.
Damaskin literature
Damaskin literature (Bulgarian and Serbian: дамаскини) is a body of South Slavic manuscript miscellanies of sermons and saints' lives, arising in the late 16th century from translations of Damaskin Studit's Thesaurus.
Danzōtei Diary
The Danzōtei Diary (断腸亭日乗) is the diary of Japanese writer Nagai Kafū, kept almost daily from 1917 until the day before his death in 1959.
Dark Emu
Dark Emu is a 2014 book by Australian writer Bruce Pascoe arguing that Aboriginal Australians practiced agriculture and lived in villages before European colonization, drawing on explorers' journals.
Days of Keeping
Written by Carlos Monsiváis, Days of Keeping (Días de guardar) is a 1970 collection of crónicas centered on Mexico City life and the society of the 1960s.
De mulieribus claris
De mulieribus claris, also cited as De claris mulieribus, is a Latin collection of about 104 biographies of famous women by Giovanni Boccaccio, begun around 1360 and the first such collection devoted exclusively to women.
De viris illustribus
De viris illustribus, also known as De scriptoribus ecclesiasticis, is the title of Latin biographical catalogs, the most influential by Jerome in 392/393 on Christian authors.
Dear Andreas
Dear Andreas (亲爱的安德烈) is a 2007 collection of letters between Taiwanese writer Lung Ying-tai and her teenage son Andreas Walther in Germany, first serialized in CommonWealth Magazine.
Decolonising the Mind
Decolonising the Mind (1986), Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's essay collection on the politics of language in African literature, arguing for writing in African languages and renouncing English for creative work.
Deliverance from Error
Al-Munqidh min al-Dalal (المنقذ من الضلال, "Deliverance from Error") is an autobiography by al-Ghazali, written around 1105 in Nishapur, recounting his search for certain knowledge through doubt, theology, philosophy, and finally Sufism.