Essays
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The Impossible Will Take a Little While: A Citizen’s Guide to Hope in a Time of Fear
$21.99 Add to cartMore relevant than ever, this seminal collection of essays encourages us to believe in the power of ordinary citizens to change the world
In today’s turbulent world it’s hard not to feel like we’re g- Author: Loeb, Paul Rogat
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: April 29 2014
- ISBN10: 0465031730
- Language: English
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Migratory Birds
$15.95 Add to cartA sensitive, stunning debut on movement, migration, and loss, in the vein of Valeria Luiselli’s Sidewalks.
- Series: Undelivered Lectures
- Author: Oliver, Mariana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: June 22 2021
- ISBN10: 194549252X
- Language: English
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I’ll Tell You in Person
$16.95 Add to cartPraise for Chloe Caldwell:
“I read it a couple of months ago in one can’t-put-it-down-even-though-it’s-the-middle-of-the-night sitting. It’s as intense and interesting and clear-hearted as they come.”
- Series: Emily Books
- Author: Caldwell, Chloe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 04 2016
- ISBN10: 1566894530
- Language: English
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Moksha: Aldous Huxley’s Classic Writings on Psychedelics and the Visionary Experience
$17.99 Read moreSelected writings from the author of Brave New World and The Doors of Perception on the role of psychedelics in society.
– Includes letters and lectures by Huxley never published elsewhere. In May 195- Author: Huxley, Aldous
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0892817585
- Language: English
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The Shell Game: Writers Play with Borrowed Forms
$24.95 Add to cartWithin the recent explosion of creative nonfiction, a new type of form is quietly emerging, what Brenda Miller calls “hermit crab essays.” The Shell Game is an anthology of these intriguing essays tha
- Author: Adrian, Kim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 276
- Publish Date: April 01 2018
- ISBN10: 0803296762
- Language: English
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Styles of Radical Will
$21.99 Add to cartStyles of Radical Will, Susan Sontag’s second collection of essays, extends the investigations she undertook in Against Interpretation with essays on film, literature, politics, and a groundbreaking s
- Author: Sontag, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 06 2002
- ISBN10: 0312420218
- Language: English
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In Favor of the Sensitive Man and Other Essays
$15.95 Add to cartHere, in more than twenty essays, Nin shares her unique perceptions of people, places, and the arts. Includes several lectures and two interviews.
- Series: Original Harvest Book; Hb333
- Author: Nin, Anaïs
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 180
- Publish Date: April 01 1976
- ISBN10: 0156444453
- Language: English
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All I Feel Is Rivers: Dervish Essays
$19.95 Add to cartAll I Feel is Rivers is a collection of a new hybrid writing that, though spiritually akin to prose poems, retains an essayistic form. After several life-changing trips to Turkey, Robert Vivian took u… [more below]
- Author: Vivian, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 126
- Publish Date: March 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1496220331
- Language: English
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Animals Strike Curious Poses
$19.95 Add to cart“It might be the best book on animals I’ve ever read. It’s also the only one that’s made me laugh out loud.”
Beginning with Yuka, a 39,000 year old
–Helen MacDonald for The New York Times Book Review- Author: Passarello, Elena
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1956046186
- Language: English
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My Life at the Wheel: Toward a Memoir
$26.00 Add to cartIn this collection of impeccably written essays, Schwartz tells us early on that she never thought of her life as a “continuous line” but rather a series of intertwined interrupted experiences. Hers i
- Author: Schwartz, Lynne Sharon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1953002315
- Language: English
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On Argentina
$18.00 Add to cartA literary guide to Argentina by its most famous writer
Jorge Luis Borges wrote about Argentina as only someone passionate about his homeland can. On Argentina reveals the many facets of his passion i- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Borges, Jorge Luis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 29 2010
- ISBN10: 0143105736
- Language: English
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Present Concerns: Journalistic Essays
$15.99 Add to cartA repackaged edition of the revered author’s essays in which he deliberates on contemporary issues, from the moral to the spiritual to the practical.
C. S. Lewis–the great British writer, scholar, lay
- Author: Lewis, C. S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 14 2017
- ISBN10: 0062643592
- Language: English
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Never Can Say Goodbye: Writers on Their Unshakable Love for New York
$18.99 Add to cart“Gets right to the heart of what it feels like to be a New Yorker–slightly insane, broke, and madly in love. These essays made me laugh out loud with recognition. New York City isn’t an easy place to… [more below]
- Author: Botton, Sari
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 14 2014
- ISBN10: 147678440X
- Language: English
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The Red Thread: Twenty Years of Nyrb Classics: A Selection
$17.95 Read moreTo celebrate the 20th anniversary of NYRB Classics, a handpicked anthology of selections from the series.
In Greek mythology, Ariadne gave Theseus a ball of red thread to guide him through the labyrint… [more below]- Author: Frank, Edwin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 24 2019
- ISBN10: 1681373912
- Language: English
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Make It Scream, Make It Burn: Essays
$19.99 Add to cartFrom the “astounding” (Entertainment Weekly), “spectacularly evocative” (The Atlantic), and “brilliant” (Los Angeles Times) author of the New York Times bestsellers The Recovering and The Empathy Exam… [more below]
- Author: Jamison, Leslie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 20 2020
- ISBN10: 0316259659
- Language: English
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Let Me Tell You What I Mean
$23.00 Read moreA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR – NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER – From one of our most iconic and influential writers, the award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking a timeless collec… [more below]
- Author: Didion, Joan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 26 2021
- ISBN10: 059331848X
- Language: English
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Children & Other Wild Animals: Notes on Badgers, Otters, Sons, Hawks, Daughters, Dogs, Bears, Air, Bobcats, Fishers, Mascots, Charles Darwin, Newts,
$18.95 Add to cartIn Children and Other Wild Animals, bestselling novelist Brian Doyle (Mink River, The Plover) describes encounters with astounding beings of every sort and shape. These true tales of animals and human… [more below]
- Author: Doyle, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0870717545
- Language: English
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Alibis
$19.00 Add to cartFrom André Aciman, the New York Times bestselling author of Call Me By Your Name, comes an eclectic collection of essays on memory and exile inspired by the quiet moments of an introspective travel
- Author: Aciman, André
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 27 2012
- ISBN10: 1250013984
- Language: English
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After Henry
$20.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – Didion’s “reportorial pieces afford the pleasures of literature…. She is an expert geographer of the landscape of American public culture” (The New York Times Book Review).
Her- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Didion, Joan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 27 1993
- ISBN10: 0679745394
- Language: English
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Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees
$26.99 Add to cartFrom the New York Times bestselling author of World of Wonders, a lyrical book of short essays about food, offering a banquet of tastes, smells, memories, associations, and marvelous curiosities from
- Author: Nezhukumatathil, Aimee
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 30 2024
- ISBN10: 0063282267
- Language: English
