Essays
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Dead and Alive: Essays
$30.00 Add to cartA profound and unparalleled literary voice, Zadie Smith returns with a resounding collection of essays
In this eagerly awaited new collection, Zadie Smith brings her unique skills as an essayist to be- Author: Smith, Zadie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0593834682
- Language: English
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The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2025
$18.99 Add to cartSusan Orlean–the beloved New Yorker staff writer and the author of the New York Times bestsellers Rin Tin Tin, The Orchid Thief, and On Animals–selects twenty science and nature essays that represe
- Author: Orlean, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 006341421X
- Language: English
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The Best American Essays 2025
$18.99 Add to cartA collection of the year’s best essays, selected by critically acclaimed author and essayist, Jia Tolentino.
The Best American series, launched in 1915, is the premier annual showcase for the country’s
- Author: Tolentino, Jia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 0063351595
- Language: English
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Winter Sun
$18.00 Add to cartBeautiful essays by Fanny Howe, a poet praised for her “private quest through the metaphysical universe . . . the results are startling and honest” (The New York Times Book Review)
Fanny Howe’s richly- Author: Howe, Fanny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: March 03 2009
- ISBN10: 1555975208
- Language: English
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I Write to Find Out What I Am Thinking: Collected Nonfiction
$35.00 Add to cartThis second hardcover omnibus edition of Didion’s collected nonfiction contains her final four books: Blue Nights, South and West, Let Me Tell You What I Mean, and her bestselling and most famous work… [more below]
- Series: Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics
- Author: Didion, Joan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 472
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 0593992210
- Language: English
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The Second Common Reader: The Virginia Woolf Library Annotated Edition
$20.99 Add to cartHere, in twenty-six essays, Woolf writes of English literature in its various forms, including the poetry of Donne; the novels of Defoe, Sterne, Meredith, and Hardy; Lord Chesterfield’s letters and De… [more below]
- Series: Virginia Woolf Library
- Author: Woolf, Virginia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 13 2003
- ISBN10: 0156028166
- Language: English
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A Measure of Belonging: Twenty-One Writers of Color on the New American South
$16.95 Add to cartA New York Times Books New & Noteworthy book – A Most-Anticipated Book from BookPage, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and Paperback Paris – Glowing reviews and features in Garden & Gun, CNN Philippines,
- Author: Barnes, Cinelle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 189
- Publish Date: October 06 2020
- ISBN10: 1938235711
- Language: English
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Some of My Best Friends: And Other White Lies I’ve Been Told
$17.99 Add to cartA fearless, “funny, poignant, and super-smart” (Ms. magazine) essay collection about race, justice, and the limits of good intentions.
In this “inspiring, determined work of personal narrative and cul- Author: Isen, Tajja
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 27 2024
- ISBN10: 1982178434
- Language: English
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Being Restorative
$18.00 Read moreA series of essays that reflects on a world view and embodied practice that restores the possibility of a world where right relationship can flourish.
While restorative justice refers to a set of princ… [more below]
- Author: Seligman, Leaf
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 10 2024
- ISBN10: 0872333841
- Language: English
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Black Lesbian in White America and Other Writings
$20.95 Add to cartBlack lesbian feminist, essayist, journalist, poet, author, and cultural worker, Anita Cornwell wrote extensively about her experiences as a Black lesbian in the United States during the twentieth cen… [more below]
- Series: Sapphic Classic
- Author: Jones, Briona Simone
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1944981772
- Language: English
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Dreaming in the Fault Zone: A Poetics of Healing
$27.95 Add to cartA virtuosic inquiry into the forms and uses of healing, from ancient and modern medicine to contemporary literature, ecology, and protest.
In the era of the “chronic acute” long predating COVID-19, Ele… [more below]
- Author: Stecopoulos, Eleni
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1643622374
- Language: English
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Notes from the Porch: Tiny True Stories to Make You Feel Better about the World
$14.99 Add to cartSilver Winner, Inspirational, 2025 IBPA Book Award
Silver Winner, Creative Nonfiction, 2024 IPNE Award
From the author of the international bestseller The Headmaster’s Wife and other novels comes a coll
- Author: Greene, Thomas Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 142
- Publish Date: September 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1578691796
- Language: English
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Dancing on My Own: Essays on Art, Collectivity, and Joy
$27.99 Add to cartA Literary Hub Most Noteworthy Nonfiction Book of 2024 – A Brooklyn Rail Best Art Book of 2024 – A The Millions and Hyperallergic Most Anticipated Book of 2024 – A Publishers Weekly Summer Reads Pick
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- Author: Wu, Simon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 25 2024
- ISBN10: 006331620X
- Language: English
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On the Couch: Writers Analyze Sigmund Freud
$29.95 Add to cartA collection of colorful and candid essays and other pieces about Freud and his legacy today, featuring twenty-five leading writers
With original contributions by Andr? Aciman – Sarah Boxer – Jennifer- Author: Blauner, Andrew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 0691242437
- Language: English
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Globetrotting: Writers Walk the World
$21.95 Add to cart“There was nowhere to go but everywhere.” –Jack Kerouac
From Duncan Minshull, the UK’s “laureate of walking,” a collection of more than fifty writings about hiking the globe from contemporary and cla- Author: Minshull, Duncan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1912559455
- Language: English
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The Age of Loneliness: Essays
$18.00 Add to cartIn this debut essay collection, Laura Marris reframes environmental degradation by setting aside the conventional, catastrophic framework of the Anthropocene in favor of that of the Eremocene, the age
- Author: Marris, Laura
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1644452944
- Language: English
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Any Person Is the Only Self: Essays
$18.00 Add to cartContagiously curious essays on reading, art, and the life of the mind, from the acclaimed author of The Unreality of Memory.
Who are we when we read? When we journal? Are we more ourselves alone or w- Author: Gabbert, Elisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 0374605890
- Language: English
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Beneath the Surface of Things: New and Selected Essays
$27.95 Add to cart“Wade Davis is a true wayfinder, and these essays offer new insight into his visionary approach to culture, landscape, and the planet he loves as fiercely as any writer working today.”–John Vaillant,… [more below]
- Author: Davis, Wade
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: April 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1778400442
- Language: English
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Familiarity Breeds Content: New and Selected Essays
$20.99 Add to cartA collection of personal essays from America’s most revered essay writer, Joseph Epstein.America’s greatest living essayist writes about life and aging and being all too nicely out of it. In these per… [more below]
- Author: Epstein, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1668009722
- Language: English
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One Day We’ll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter: Essays
$19.99 Add to cartOne of NPR’s Best Books of the Year
A DEBUT COLLECTION OF FIERCE, FUNNY ESSAYS ABOUT GROWING UP THE DAUGHTER OF INDIAN IMMIGRANTS IN WESTERN CULTURE, ADDRESSING SEXISM, STEREOTYPES, AND THE UNIVERSAL- Author: Koul, Scaachi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 02 2017
- ISBN10: 1250121027
- Language: English
