Essays
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All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays
$19.99 Add to cartThe essential collection of critical essays from a twentieth-century master and author of 1984.
As a critic, George Orwell cast a wide net. Equally at home discussing Charles Dickens and Charlie Chapli… [more below]
- Author: Orwell, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 14 2009
- ISBN10: 0156033070
- Language: English
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The Unwritten Book: An Investigation
$20.00 Add to cart“One of our most interesting and bold writers . . . [offers] a characteristically wild effort that defies genre distinctions, flits from the profound to the mundane with fierce intelligence and search
- Author: Hunt, Samantha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 4, 2023
- ISBN10: 1250863082
- Language: English
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The Practice of the Wild: Essays
$16.95 Add to cartA collection of captivatingly meditative essays that display a deep understanding of Buddhist belief, wildness, wildlife, and the world from an American cultural force.
With thoughts ranging from poli- Author: Snyder, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 08 2020
- ISBN10: 1640094210
- Language: English
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The Plague: Living Death in Our Times
$27.00 Read moreA slim, heart-wrenching, and rousing new book from the leading feminist writer Jacqueline Rose.
In early 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic began to infiltrate public consciousness, sales of The Plague,- Author: Rose, Jacqueline
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 01, 2023
- ISBN10: 037461086X
- Language: English
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Walden, Or, Life in the Woods
$8.00 Add to cartNature was a form of religion for naturalist, essayist, and early environmentalist Henry David Thoreau (1817-62). In communing with the natural world, he wished to “live deliberately, to front only th
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Thoreau, Henry David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 12 1995
- ISBN10: 0486284956
- Language: English
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South and West: From a Notebook
$16.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – “One of contemporary literature’s most revered essayists revives her raw records from a 1970s road trip across the American southwest … her acute observations of the country’s … [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Didion, Joan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 02 2018
- ISBN10: 0525434194
- Language: English
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How to Read Now: Essays
$28.00 Add to cart“How to Read Now explores the politics and ethics of reading, and insists that we are capable of something better: a more engaged relationship not just with our fiction and our art, but with our burie
- Author: Castillo, Elaine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 26, 2022
- ISBN10: 0593489632
- Language: English
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The Living Mountain: A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland
$17.00 Read moreIn this masterpiece of nature writing, Nan Shepherd describes her journeys into the Cairngorm mountains of Scotland. There she encounters a world that can be breathtakingly beautiful at times and shoc
- Series: Canons #6
- Author: Shepherd, Nan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 18, 2011
- ISBN10: 0857861832
- Language: English
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Letters to a Writer of Color
$17.00 Add to cartA vital collection of essays on the power of literature and the craft of writing from an international array of writers of color, sharing the experiences, cultural traditions, and convictions that hav… [more below]
- Author: Anappara, Deepa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 7, 2023
- ISBN10: 059344941X
- Language: English
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Walden: A Fully Annotated Edition
$12.00 Add to cartThe ultimate gift edition of Walden for bibliophiles, aficionados, and scholars
“Replaces all other available editions of Walden as the most attractive and reliable way to approach this great American- Series: Yale Nota Bene
- Author: Thoreau, Henry David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 454
- Publish Date: May 11 2006
- ISBN10: 0300110081
- Language: English
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The Art of Libromancy: On Selling Books and Reading Books in the Twenty-First Century
$18.95 Add to cartONE OF LIT HUB‘S MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2023 – ESQUIRE‘s August 2023 Book Club Pick
“If books are important to you because you’re a reader or a writer, then how books are sold should be important to
- Author: Cook, Josh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 22, 2023
- ISBN10: 177196541X
- Language: English
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The Best American Essays 2022
$17.99 Read moreA collection of the year’s best essays, selected by award-winning writer Alexander Chee.
Alexander Chee, an essayist of “virtuosity and power” (Washington Post), selects twenty essays out of thousands
- Series: Best American
- Author: Chee, Alexander
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 035865887X
- Language: English
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Dark Days: Fugitive Essays
$26.00 Read more* WINNER OF THE 2024 GLCA NEW WRITERS AWARD FOR CREATIVE NONFICTION *
A crucial book that calls for community, solidarity, and joy, even in–especially in–these dark days In his debut work of nonfict- Author: Reeves, Roger
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: August 01, 2023
- ISBN10: 1644452413
- Language: English
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The Minotaur at Calle Lanza
$19.95 Add to cartIn the fall of 2020, as the pandemic raged around the globe, Zito Madu traveled to Venice for a writing fellowship. There, he found a deserted, silent, but still beautiful city, “one of those extraord… [more below]
- Author: Madu, Zito
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 185
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1953368662
- Language: English
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A Year and a Day: An Experiment in Essays
$17.95 Read moreA compelling celebration of the power of the essay, this collection of 47 writings offers a glimpse into the mind of a modern-day Montaigne as he reflects on the miscellany of daily life–movies and a
- Author: Lopate, Phillip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: October 10, 2023
- ISBN10: 1681377780
- Language: English
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These Precious Days: Essays
$28.99 Add to cartThe beloved New York Times bestselling author reflects on home, family, friendships and writing in this deeply personal collection of essays.
“The elegance of Patchett’s prose is seductive and invitin
- Author: Patchett, Ann
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 23, 2021
- ISBN10: 0063092786
- Language: English
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El Mito de SÃsifo / The Myth of Sisyphus
$13.95 Read more«No hay sino un problema filos?fico realmente serio: el suicidio.
El mito de S?sifo es el ensayo fundacional de la filosof?a del absurdo, una obra may?scula que dio a conocer el gran talento de- Author: Camus, Albert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: December 07 2021
- ISBN10: 8466356142
- Language: Spanish
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The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2022
$17.99 Add to cartA collection of the best science and nature articles written in 2021, selected by guest editor renowned marine biologist Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and series editor Jaime Green.
Dr. Ayana Elizabeth
- Series: Best American
- Author: Johnson, Ayana Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0358615291
- Language: English
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Night Mother: A Personal and Cultural History of The Exorcist
$19.95 Read moreNever watch The Exorcist, Marlena Williams’s mother told her, just as she’d been told by her own mother as a Catholic teen in rural Oregon when the horror classic premiered. And like her mother, Mary,… [more below]
- Series: 21st Century Essays
- Author: Williams, Marlena
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 20 2023
- ISBN10: 081425876X
- Language: English
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Everyday Something Has Tried to Kill Me and Has Failed: Notes from Periracial America
$18.95 Read more“Genuine, unrestrained musings, both political and personal, on life as a Black woman in contemporary America…A highly rewarding, commiserating nod as well as an astute rallying cry.”–KIRKUS (starr
- Author: McLarin, Kim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1632461587
- Language: English
