Culled from some forty years of Steven Kellman's work as a critic and writer, the essays collected here range from literature and film to education, politics, and more, and feature Kellman's clever wordplay and hidden connections that offer surprising insights. Classic works on animal rights, eroticism, and silence offer complex investigations of eternal human quandaries and are bookended with two new essays about the limitations of language. Witty and insightful, Kellman entertains and educates, pokes fun at institutions, and honors the contributions of those who have come before him. Rambling Prose is for anyone who loves language and believes in the power, both positive and negative, of words to change the world.