Essays
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How to Tell When We Will Die: On Pain, Disability, and Doom
$28.00 Read moreThe long-awaited essay collection from one of the most influential voices in disability activism that detonates a bomb in our collective understanding of care and illness, showing us that sickness is
- Author: Hedva, Johanna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 163893116X
- Language: English
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Magically Black and Other Essays
$24.99 Read moreIn this engaging follow up to How to Make a Slave and Other Essays, the recipient of PEN New England Award for nonfiction and finalist for the National Book Award sharply examines and explains Black l
- Author: Walker, Jerald
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 0063161079
- Language: English
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New York Sketches
$18.00 Add to cartE. B. White’s greatest stories, asides, essays, jokes, and tall tales about the city he arguably saw clearest, loved best, and skewered most mercilessly.
Over more than fifty years at the New Yorker,- Series: McNally Editions
- Author: White, E. B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: December 03 2024
- ISBN10: 194602273X
- Language: English
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How to Fuck Like a Girl: Essays
$17.95 Add to cartA cheeky how-to guide, as raunchy as it is heartfelt, from a bright new literary voice.
A bold and vulnerable collection from a new, young voice, How to Fuck Like a Girl is a daring mash-up of pillow- Author: Blossom, Vera
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: December 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1635902274
- Language: English
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On the Housing Crisis: Land, Development, Democracy
$12.95 Read moreA rigorously reported anthology on how local politics have fueled a generation-defining national emergency. An Atlantic Edition, featuring long-form journalism by Atlantic writers, drawn from contempo
- Series: Atlantic Editions
- Author: Demsas, Jerusalem
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1638931968
- Language: English
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We’re Alone: Essays
$26.00 Add to cartA collection of exceptional new essays by one of the most significant contemporary writers on the world stage
Tracing a loose arc from Edwidge Danticat’s childhood to the COVID-19 pandemic and recent- Author: Danticat, Edwidge
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1644453029
- Language: English
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The Long Run: A Creative Inquiry
$17.00 Add to cartThe author of The Art of Intimacy asks eight legendary artists: What has sustained you in the long run?
How do we keep doing this–making art? Stacey D’Erasmo had been writing for twenty years and had- Author: D’Erasmo, Stacey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: July 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1644452928
- Language: English
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Inciting Joy: Essays
$19.99 Add to cartFrom New York Times bestselling author Ross Gay comes a “brilliant” intimate and electrifying collection of essays about the joy that comes from connection (Ada Lim?n, U.S. poet laureate).
In these g- Author: Gay, Ross
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 1643753959
- Language: English
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The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade
$15.95 Add to cart“Every year I bury a couple hundred of my townspeople.” So opens this singular and wise testimony. Like all poets, inspired by death, Thomas Lynch is, unlike others, also hired to bury the dead or to
- Author: Lynch, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0393334872
- Language: English
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On Being Ill: With Notes from Sick Rooms by Julia Stephen
$16.00 Read moreWith magnificent language, Virginia Woolf explores the ways that illness transforms our perceptions
This new publication of On Being Ill with Notes from Sick Rooms presents Virginia Woolf and her mothe… [more below]
- Series: Paris Press
- Author: Woolf, Virginia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 06 2012
- ISBN10: 1930464134
- Language: English
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The Selected Works of Edward Said, 1966 – 2006
$20.00 Add to cartThe renowned literary and cultural critic Edward Said was one of our era’s most provocative and important thinkers. This comprehensive collection of his work, expanded from the earlier Edward Said Rea… [more below]
- Author: Said, Edward W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: February 12 2019
- ISBN10: 0525565310
- Language: English
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Inciting Joy: Essays
$27.00 Add to cartFrom Ross Gay, the New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Delights, comes an intimate and electrifying collection of essays about the joy that comes from connection. “BRILLIANT.” –Ada Lim,
- Author: Gay, Ross
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 25, 2022
- ISBN10: 1643753045
- Language: English
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The Miracle of the Black Leg: Notes on Race, Human Bodies, and the Spirit of the Law
$29.99 Add to cartBrilliant essays from the renowned Nation columnist–aka the Mad Law Professor–tackling questions of identity, bioethics, race, surveillance, and more
Beginning with a jaw-dropping rumination on a ce
- Author: Williams, Patricia J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 25 2024
- ISBN10: 1620978164
- Language: English
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Thin Skin: Essays
$19.00 Add to cartONE OF TIME’S 100 MUST-READ BOOKS OF THE YEAR – A GOODREADS MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK – Examining capitalism’s toxic creep into the land, our bodies, and our thinking, this incisive new work is “a viscera… [more below]
- Author: Shapland, Jenn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 09 2024
- ISBN10: 0593469534
- Language: English
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The Book of (More) Delights: Essays
$19.99 Add to cartFrom bestselling author of The Book of Delights and award-winning poet, a book of lyrical mini-essays celebrating the everyday that will inspire readers to rediscover the joys in the world around us. … [more below]
- Author: Gay, Ross
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 1643756354
- Language: English
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Citizen Poet: New and Selected Essays
$24.99 Add to cartEavan Boland was a trailblazing poet, critic, teacher, and essayist. Carving a path for the next generation, she broke open the male-dominated canon of Irish literature and mapped her poetic journey t
- Author: Boland, Eavan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1324074280
- Language: English
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How I Got This Way
$19.99 Add to cartPatrick McManus, the bestselling author of such hilarious books as A Fine and Pleasant Misery and Never Sniff a Gift Fish, now offers readers solid thoughts on the qualities that define leadership, be
- Author: McManus, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 15 1995
- ISBN10: 080503482X
- Language: English
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Ornament and Silence: Essays on Women’s Lives from Edith Wharton to Germaine Greer
$19.00 Add to cart“A brilliant collection…. Ms. Fraser does the greatest honor a writer can do people: she brings them alive”. — The New York Times Book Review
Kennedy Fraser brings to the fourteen essays in this ind
- Author: Fraser, Kennedy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: April 28 1998
- ISBN10: 0375701125
- Language: English
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Forty-one False Starts
$24.00 Add to cartA National Book Critics Circle Finalist for Criticism
A deeply Malcolmian volume on painters, photographers, writers, and critics. Janet Malcolm’s In the Freud Archives and The Journalist and the Murd- Author: Malcolm, Janet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 13 2014
- ISBN10: 0374534586
- Language: English
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My 1980s & Other Essays
$25.00 Add to cartWayne Koestenbaum returns with a zesty and hyper-literate collection of personal and critical essays on the 1980s, including essays on major cultural figures such as Andy Warhol and Brigitte Bardot.
W- Author: Koestenbaum, Wayne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 13 2013
- ISBN10: 0374533776
- Language: English
