Essays
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Orwell: Essays: Introduction by John Carey
$50.00 Add to cartA generous and varied selection-the only hardcover edition available-of the literary and political writings of one of the greatest essayists of the twentieth century.
Although best known as the author
- Series: Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics
- Author: Orwell, George
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1416
- Publish Date: October 15 2002
- ISBN10: 0375415033
- Language: English
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The Double Flame: Love and Eroticism
$19.99 Add to cartIn this series of essays Paz explores the intimate connection between sex, eroticism, and love in literature throughout the ages. Rich in scope, The Double Flame examines everything from taboo to repr
- Author: Paz, Octavio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 06 2010
- ISBN10: 0156003651
- Language: English
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Not-Knowing: The Essays and Interviews
$16.95 Add to cartThe wildly varied essays in Not-Knowing combine to form a posthumous manifesto of one of America’s masters of literary experiment. Here are Barthelme’s thoughts on writing (his own and others); his ob
- Author: Barthelme, Donald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1593761732
- Language: English
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Dispatches from the Diaspora: From Nelson Mandela to Black Lives Matter
$22.95 Add to cartDispatches from the Diaspora brings together the vibrant journalism of one of the leading Black voices spanning the Atlantic, providing a must-read for anyone interested in the way we understand conte
- Author: Younge, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1682193853
- Language: English
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The War Against Cliche: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000
$29.17 Read moreNATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER – In this virtuosic, career-spanning collection, Martin Amis, “one of the most gifted novelists of his generation” (TIME), takes on James Joyce and Elvis Pres… [more below]
- Author: Amis, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: July 16 2002
- ISBN10: 0375727167
- Language: English
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Ordinary Wonder Tales
$16.95 Read moreShortlisted for the 2023 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction
A journalist and folklorist explores the truths that underlie the stories we imagine–and reveals the magic in the everyday.
“I
- Author: Urquhart, Emily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1771965053
- Language: English
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The Decay of Lying: And Other Essays
$13.00 Read moreA selection of Oscar Wilde’s writings that underscore his notion that “Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life”
The Decay of Lying includes two of Wilde’s most comprehensive–and witty–expl- Series: Penguin Great Ideas
- Author: Wilde, Oscar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: June 08 2021
- ISBN10: 0241472458
- Language: English
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The Unreality of Memory: And Other Essays
$18.00 Add to cartTerror, disaster, memory, selfhood, happiness . . . leave it to a poet to tackle the unthinkable so wisely and so wittily.* A literary guide to life in the pre-apocalypse, The Unreality of Memory coll
- Author: Gabbert, Elisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 11 2020
- ISBN10: 0374538344
- Language: English
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Allegorical Moments: Call to the Everyday
$26.95 Read moreConsiders allegory as a catalyst of transformative thinking
Allegorical Moments is a set of essays dedicated to rethinking allegory and arguing for its significance as a creative and critical response
- Author: Hejinian, Lyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0819580856
- Language: English
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The Penguin Book of Modern Tibetan Essays
$19.99 Read moreThe Penguin Book of Modern Tibetan Essays is a groundbreaking anthology of modern Tibetan non-fiction. This unprecedented collection celebrates the art of the modern Tibetan essay and comprises some o… [more below]
- Author: Dickie, Tenzin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 22 2023
- ISBN10: 0143462326
- Language: English
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When the Rewards Can Be So Great: Essays on Writing and the Writing Life
$18.95 Add to cartWhen the Rewards Can Be So Great is a selection of craft talks delivered by faculty at the Pacific University MFA in Writing program. The essays in this exciting collection are at times deeply persona
- Author: Dawes, Kwame
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 338
- Publish Date: July 15 2016
- ISBN10: 0988482746
- Language: English
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Modern Love, Revised and Updated: True Stories of Love, Loss, and Redemption
$19.00 Read moreThe most popular, provocative, and unforgettable essays from the past fifteen years of the New York Times “Modern Love” column–including stories from the anthology series starring Tina Fey, Andy Garc… [more below]
- Author: Jones, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 03 2019
- ISBN10: 0593137043
- Language: English
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What Just Happened: Notes on a Long Year
$17.00 Read moreA BOSTON GLOBE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR – With unwavering humanity and light-footed humor, this intimate account of the interminable year of 2020 offers commentary on the COVID-19 pandemic, protests for … [more below]
- Author: Finch, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0593470206
- Language: English
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For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)
$9.99 Add to cartHere is Ayn Rand’s first non-fiction work–a challenge to the prevalent philosophical doctrines of our time and the “atmosphere of guilt, of panic, of despair, of boredom, and of all-pervasive evasion… [more below]
- Author: Rand, Ayn
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 01 1963
- ISBN10: 0451163087
- Language: English
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The Interesting Narrative
$12.95 Add to cartOlaudah Equiano’s Interesting Narrative, in which the author describes his birth in Africa, his enslavement and transportation to America, and his journey from slavery to freedom, was published just a… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Equiano, Olaudah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: March 01 2018
- ISBN10: 0198707525
- Language: English
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Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity
$25.95 Add to cartA pioneer in queer theory and literary studies, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick brings together for the first time in Touching Feeling her most powerful explorations of emotion and expression. In essays that sh… [more below]
- Series: Series Q
- Author: Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 17 2003
- ISBN10: 0822330156
- Language: English
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The Great Camouflage: Writings of Dissent (1941-1945)
$18.95 Add to cartA new and complete English translation
The Great Camouflage translates and assembles in one volume the seven articles Suzanne C?saire wrote for the cultural journal Tropiques. C?saire engages anthropol
- Author: C?saire, Suzanne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: May 18 2012
- ISBN10: 0819572756
- Language: English
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Approaching Eye Level
$18.00 Add to cartSeminal essays on loneliness, living in New York, friendship, feminism, and writing from nonfiction master Vivian Gornick
Vivian Gornick’s Approaching Eye Level is a brave collection of personal essay- Author: Gornick, Vivian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 03 2020
- ISBN10: 0374538255
- Language: English
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Thin Places: Essays from in Between
$18.00 Add to cartA Los Angeles Times Bestseller
In this perceptive and provocative essay collection, an award-winning writer shar
A Lit Hub Chicago Review Ms. Magazine March pick
A Lambda Literary Most Anticipated Book- Author: Kisner, Jordan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 13 2021
- ISBN10: 1250785901
- Language: English
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No Time to Spare: Thinking about What Matters
$22.00 Add to cartUrsula K. Le Guin on the absurdity of denying your age: “If I’m ninety and believe I’m forty-five, I’m headed for a very bad time trying to get out of the bathtub.”
On cultural perceptions of fantasy- Author: Le Guin, Ursula K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 05 2017
- ISBN10: 1328661598
- Language: English
