Essays
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Voice of the Fish: A Lyric Essay
$16.00 Add to cartLars Horn’s Voice of the Fish, the latest Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize winner, is an interwoven essay collection that explores the trans experience through themes of water, fish, and mythology, set
- Author: Horn, Lars
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 07 2022
- ISBN10: 1644450895
- Language: English
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Uncertain Ground: Citizenship in an Age of Endless, Invisible War
$27.00 Read moreFrom the National Book Award-winning author of Redeployment and Missionaries, an astonishing fever graph of the effects of twenty years of war in a brutally divided America.
When Phil Klay left the Mar- Author: Klay, Phil
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 17, 2022
- ISBN10: 0593299248
- Language: English
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Somewhere We Are Human Donde Somos Humanos (Spanish Edition): Historias Genuinas Sobre Migración, Sobrevivencia Y Renaceres
$22.99 Add to cartUna colecci?n de 35 ensayos y poemas audaces, importantes e innovadores de inmigrantes, refugiados y so?adores, incluidos escritores, artistas y activistas galardonados, que iluminan la experiencia de
- Author: Grande, Reyna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 24 2023
- ISBN10: 0063095831
- Language: Spanish
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The Art of the Personal Essay: An Anthology from the Classical Era to the Present
$26.00 Add to cartFor more than four hundred years, the personal essay has been one of the richest and most vibrant of all literary forms. Distinguished from the detached formal essay by its friendly, conversational to… [more below]
- Author: Lopate, Phillip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 832
- Publish Date: January 15 1997
- ISBN10: 038542339X
- Language: English
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White Girls
$17.00 Add to cart“This book will change you.” —Chicago Tribune
White Girls is about, among other things, blackness, queerness, movies, Brooklyn, love (and the loss of love), AIDS, fashion, Basquiat, Capote, philosoph- Author: Als, Hilton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 09 2019
- ISBN10: 0143134752
- Language: English
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She’s Nice Though: Essays on Being Bad at Being Good
$18.99 Read moreAN NPR BOOK-OF-THE-DAY – A PUBLISHERS WEEKLY STAFF PICK – A NYLON MUST-READ – A FORTUNE NEW BOOK TO READ IN AUGUST
“And, at the center of it all, am I actually nice or am I just performing a role I thi
- Author: Mercado, Mia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 01, 2023
- ISBN10: 0063238314
- Language: English
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The Colossus of New York
$17.00 Add to cartIn a dazzlingly original work of nonfiction, the two time Pulitzer-Prize winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys recreates the exuberance, the chaos, the promise, and the heartb… [more below]
- Author: Whitehead, Colson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 12 2004
- ISBN10: 1400031249
- Language: English
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Letter to a Stranger: Essays to the Ones Who Haunt Us
$19.99 Add to cart“Beautiful. The human condition is on full display in these glimpses of our essential connectedness. Perfect for our times.”
Sixty-five extraordinary writers gr
–Dani Shapiro, author of Inheritance- Author: Kinder, Colleen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1643751247
- Language: English
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Animal Joy: A Book of Laughter and Resuscitation
$18.00 Read moreA Time Must-Read Book of 2022
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2022 Aster(ix) Journal’s 12 Best Nonfiction Books of 2022
An invigorating, continuously surprising book about the serious nature of laugh- Author: Alsadir, Nuar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 16 2022
- ISBN10: 1644450933
- Language: English
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On Womanhood: Bodies, Literature, Choice
$12.95 Read moreTwelve incisive, probing essays on womanhood in popular culture. An Atlantic Edition, featuring long-form journalism by Atlantic writers, drawn from contemporary articles or classic storytelling from
- Series: Atlantic Editions
- Author: Gilbert, Sophie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 163893066X
- Language: English
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Llorando En El Baño: Memorias / Crying in the Bathroom: A Memoir
$17.95 Add to cartDe la autora de Yo no soy tu perfecta hija mexicana, bestseller del New York Times, nos llegan estos originalÃsimos ensayos autobiográficos, profundamente conmovedores y de una comicidad que desarma… [more below]
- Author: Sánchez, Erika L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 20 2022
- ISBN10: 0593314735
- Language: Spanish
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On Divas: Persona, Pleasure, Power
$12.95 Read moreA critic’s notebook on sparkle and spectacle. An Atlantic Edition, featuring long-form journalism by Atlantic writers, drawn from contemporary articles or classic storytelling from the magazine’s 165-
- Series: Atlantic Editions
- Author: Kornhaber, Spencer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1638931135
- Language: English
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A Left-Handed Woman: Essays
$20.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE 2023 PEN/DIAMONSTEIN-SPIELVOGEL AWARD FOR THE ART OF THE ESSAY
A collection of essays from Judith Thurman, the National Book Award-winning biographer and New Yorker staff writer. Judith- Author: Thurman, Judith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: December 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1250872669
- Language: English
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my mother’s tomorrow: dispatches through the lens of Baltimore’s Black Butterfly
$18.99 Add to cartIn 2017, Dr. Kaye began a three-year in-depth ethnographic study within Baltimore’s Black Butterfly neighborhoods, documenting and recording the community stories.
In “you tell them that we’re not inv… [more below]
- Author: Whitehead, Karsonya Wise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 210
- Publish Date: November 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1627204881
- Language: English
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Mantel Pieces: Royal Bodies and Other Writing from the London Review of Books
$18.99 Read moreA stunning collection of essays and memoir from twice Booker Prize winner and international bestseller Hilary Mantel, author of The Mirror and the Light
In 1987, when Hilary Mantel was first publishe
- Author: Mantel, Hilary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 30, 2021
- ISBN10: 0008430004
- Language: English
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Nature and Selected Essays
$17.00 Add to cartAn indispensible look at Emerson’s influential life philosophy
Through his writing and his own personal philosophy, Ralph Waldo Emerson unburdened his young country of Europe’s traditional sense of hi- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Emerson, Ralph Waldo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 27 2003
- ISBN10: 014243762X
- Language: English
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We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction; Introduction by John Leonard
$40.00 Read moreSeven books in one hardcover volume from the bestselling, award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking: including the full texts of Slouching Towards Bethlehem; The White Album; Salvador; Miam
- Series: Everyman’s Library Classics & Contemporary Classics
- Author: Didion, Joan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1160
- Publish Date: October 17, 2006
- ISBN10: 0307264874
- Language: English
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Portable Magic: A History of Books and Their Readers
$28.00 Read moreA history of one of humankind’s most resilient and influential technologies over the past millennium–the book. Revelatory and entertaining in equal measure, Portable Magic will charm and challenge li… [more below]
- Author: Smith, Emma
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1524749095
- Language: English
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On Human Slaughter: Evil, Justice, Mercy
$12.95 Add to cart
Incisive, compassionate, and revelatory reporting from America’s death row, named a 2023 Pulitzer Prize finalist for feature writing. An Atlantic Edition, featuring long-form journalism by Atlantic w- Series: Atlantic Editions
- Author: Bruenig, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1638931429
- Language: English
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What Do I Know?: Essential Essays
$24.00 Read moreA fresh new translation of Michel de Montaigne’s most profound, searching essays, with an introduction from Yiyun Li, author of The Book of Goose
This gift-worthy collection of 16 essays by “the fathe- Author: de Montaigne, Michel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1782278818
- Language: English
