Essays
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The Lede: Dispatches from a Life in the Press
$20.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – A fascinating portrait of journalism and the people who make it, told through pieces collected from the incomparable six-decade career of bestselling author and longtime Ne… [more below]
- Author: Trillin, Calvin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 18 2025
- ISBN10: 0593596463
- Language: English
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Water Bodies: Love Letters to the Most Abundant Substance on Earth
$19.95 Add to cartWater Bodies consider what becomes endangered when we lose sight of the power of water.
The human experience has always been shaped by water, by its absence and its abundance. Now, as the climate cris- Author: Paskus, Laura
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 150
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 9798890920072
- Language: English
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Spinning Toward the Sun: Essays on Writing, Resilience, & the Creative Life
$19.99 Add to cart- Author: Carpenter, Nora Shalaway
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1961853078
- Language: English
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Things in Nature Merely Grow
$26.00 Add to cartYiyun Li’s remarkable, defiant work of radical acceptance as she considers the loss of her son James.
“There is no good way to say this,” Yiyun Li writes at the beginning of this book. “There is no go- Author: Li, Yiyun
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 20 2025
- ISBN10: 374617317
- Language: English
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What My Father and I Don’t Talk about: Sixteen Writers Break the Silence
$29.99 Add to cartA follow-up to the wildly successful What My Mother and I Don’t Talk About, this collection of essays from sixteen notable writers breaks the silence on the complex–and sometimes contentious–relati… [more below]
- Series: What We Don’t Talk about #2
- Author: Filgate, Michele
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1668049651
- Language: English
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One Man’s Meat
$30.00 Add to cartIn print for fifty-five years, One Man’s Meat continues to delight readers with E.B. White’s witty, succinct observations on daily life at a Maine saltwater farm.
- Author: White, E. B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: December 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1684751152
- Language: English
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Anthems of Resistance: A Celebration of Progressive Urdu Poetry
$19.99 Add to cart“Let a thousand verses bloom. Anthems of Resistance is about the iconoclastic tradition of poetry nurtured by Ali Sardar Jafri, Faiz Ahmad Faiz, Javed Akhtar, Fehmida Riyaz and all those who have been… [more below]
- Author: Mir, Ali Hussain
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 01 2006
- ISBN10: 8186939261
- Language: English
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With Every Great Breath: New and Selected Essays, 1995-2023
$17.95 Add to cart“Master craftsman” (Los Angeles Times) and beloved author Rick Bass explores ecological, social, and personal landscapes through this collection that brings together his best-loved essays and brand-ne… [more below]
- Author: Bass, Rick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1640096930
- Language: English
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Silent Catastrophes: Essays
$30.00 Add to cartFrom the renowned author of Austerlitz (named a Top 10 Book of the 21st Century by the New York Times) comes the first English translation of his extraordinary essays on the Austrian writers who shape… [more below]
- Author: Sebald, W. G.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1400067723
- Language: English
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Traveling Freely: Essays
$20.00 Read moreA poet’s debut essay collection exploring American faults through the eyes of a Dominican American
In Traveling Freely: Essays, Roberto Carlos Garcia explores intersecting topics such as race, identit
- Author: Garcia, Roberto Carlos
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 0810147882
- Language: English
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Aggregated Discontent: Confessions of the Last Normal Woman
$29.00 Add to cartA searing journey through the highs and lows of twenty-first century womanhood from an award-winning journalist beloved for her unflinchingly honest and often comedic appraisals of pop culture, identi… [more below]
- Author: Walker, Harron
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 20 2025
- ISBN10: 593450043
- Language: English
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Changing My Mind
$14.95 Add to cartBestselling author Julian Barnes illuminates the process of how minds are changed–about politics, books, words, memories, and more–in this wise and fascinating new book.
“We always believe that chan- Author: Barnes, Julian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1912559692
- Language: English
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Life and Art: Essays
$28.00 Add to cartA marvelous new essay collection from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Somebody’s Fool and The Destiny Thief
Life and Art–these are the twin subjects considered in Richard Russo’s twelve masterfu- Author: Russo, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 593802160
- Language: English
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No Straight Road Takes You There: Essays for Uneven Terrain
$16.95 Add to cartIn the spirit of her bestselling book Hope in the Dark, Rebecca Solnit explores how our actions can shape the future and the liberatory possibilities of embracing uncertainty.
Beginning with an essa
- Author: Solnit, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 9.79889E+12
- Language: English
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Notes to John
$32.00 Add to cartA new book coming from the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.
- Author: Didion, Joan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 22 2025
- ISBN10: 0593803671
- Language: English
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Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age
$30.00 Add to cartFrom the author of The Immortal King Rao, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, a personal exploration of how technology companies have both fulfilled and exploited the human desire for understanding and … [more below]
- Author: Vara, Vauhini
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 08 2025
- ISBN10: 0593701526
- Language: English
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Deep & Wild: On Mountains, Opossums & Finding Your Way in West Virginia
$19.95 Add to cartEssays chronicling the beauty and awe of Appalachia through the eyes of a lifelong West Virginian.
Winner of the 2023 Autumn House Nonfiction Prize, Deep & Wild is the debut essay collection of Laur- Series: Autumn House Press Nonfiction Prize
- Author: Jackson, Laura
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 196
- Publish Date: October 18 2024
- ISBN10: 1637680988
- Language: English
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In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing
$16.95 Read moreFour “pitch-perfect” (Oprah Daily) essays by the author of My Brilliant Friend and The Lost Daughter.
In these four crisp essays, Ferrante offers a rare look into the origins of her literary prowess. S
- Author: Ferrante, Elena
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1609458249
- Language: English
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Yoke and Feather
$17.95 Add to cartMay you braid back the hair of the girl who asks you to; may your lips brush other lips in an almost-kiss; when the chickens are gone, may you sow the coop in arugula; may the fogged-in mountain roads
- Author: Van Eerden, Jessie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 212
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 0984213368
- Language: English
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A Room of One’s Own: Introduction by Merve Emre
$27.00 Add to cartA Contemporary Classics hardcover edition of Virginia Woolf’s classic plea for a world in which women are free to use their gifts.
In this influential extended essay, Woolf outlines what women need in- Series: Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics
- Author: Woolf, Virginia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1101908505
- Language: English
