Essays
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Fucked at Birth: Recalibrating the American Dream for the 2020s
$17.00 Add to cart“This is a book ripped from the headlines, from Black Lives Matter to recently thriving downtowns stripped of office workers and service workers. Those catching the brunt of it all, those with the ste… [more below]
- Author: Maharidge, Dale
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 12 2021
- ISBN10: 195121322X
- Language: English
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Love Yourself: Essays on self-love, care and healing inspired by BTS
$23.99 Add to cartInspired by BTS’ message of “love yourself, speak yourself” Love Yourself features 10 essays on self-love, care and healing from contributors around the world. According to BTS, to be human is to love
- Author: Eaglehawk, Wallea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: May 13 2021
- ISBN10: 0645048631
- Language: English
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100 Things We’ve Lost to the Internet
$27.00 Add to cartThe acclaimed editor of The New York Times Book Review takes readers on a nostalgic tour of the pre-Internet age, offering powerful insights into both the profound and the seemingly trivial things we’… [more below]
- Author: Paul, Pamela
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 26 2021
- ISBN10: 0593136772
- Language: English
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Finding Beauty in the Gray: Stories and Verse from the Third Age
$32.00 Add to cartIn this brilliant collection of essays, Finding Beauty in the Gray invites you into the living rooms, backyard gardens, mountain apple orchards, and coastal boardwalks of folks approaching, or in the … [more below]
- Author: Willard, Hugh J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1960146793
- Language: English
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Azadi: Fascism, Fiction, and Freedom in the Time of the Virus (Expanded Second Edition)
$19.95 Add to cartWinner of the European Essay Prize 2023
The chant of “Azadi!”–Urdu for “Freedom!”–is the slogan of the freedom struggle in Kashmir against what Kashmiris see as the Indian Occupation. Ironically, it- Author: Roy, Arundhati
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 26 2022
- ISBN10: 1642597066
- Language: English
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The Ecstasy of Communication, New Edition
$15.95 Read moreBaudrillard’s essential crib-book, lexicon, and companion piece to any and all of his books and a prescient portrait of our contemporary condition.
- Series: Semiotext(e) Foreign Agents
- Author: Baudrillard, Jean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: November 30 2012
- ISBN10: 1584350571
- Language: English
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Lessons from a Small Town
$18.95 Add to cartFor over fifty years, Bill Thompson has not only observed but been a part of hundreds of small towns across the South. Before there were interstate highways, he traveled the two-laned paved roads (and… [more below]
- Author: Thompson, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 306
- Publish Date: October 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1960146629
- Language: English
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Where I Stand: On the Signing Community and My DeafBlind Experience
$14.95 Add to cartThis collection of essays from one of the country’s leading voices on issues facing the signing community appears at a time of troubling trends and exciting new developments. Through his lucid and acc… [more below]
- Author: Clark, John Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 02 2014
- ISBN10: 1941960006
- Language: English
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Mothers, Fathers, and Others: Essays
$17.99 Add to cartFeminist philosophy meets family memoir in this “profound” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) new essay collection from Siri Hustvedt, an exploration of the shifting borders that define human experie… [more below]
- Author: Hustvedt, Siri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1982176407
- Language: English
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Thick: And Other Essays
$29.15 Add to cartFINALIST FOR THE 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
Named a notable book of 2019 by the New York Times Book Review, Chicago Tribune, Time, and The Guardian
As featured by The Daily Show, NPR, PBS, CBC, Time, VIBE
- Author: Cottom, Tressie McMillan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 08 2019
- ISBN10: 1620974363
- Language: English
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Aphro-Ism: Essays on Pop Culture, Feminism, and Black Veganism from Two Sisters
$20.00 Read moreIn this lively, accessible, and provocative collection, Aph and Syl Ko provide new theoretical frameworks on race, advocacy for nonhuman animals, and feminism. Using popular culture as a point of refe… [more below]
- Author: Ko, Aph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: June 15 2017
- ISBN10: 159056555X
- Language: English
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Had I Known: Collected Essays
$17.99 Add to cartWinner of the 2021 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay, HAD I KNOWN contains the most provocative, incendiary, and career-making pieces by bestselling author, essayist, politica… [more below]
- Author: Ehrenreich, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 23 2021
- ISBN10: 1455543691
- Language: English
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We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
$28.00 Add to cartIn this “urgently relevant”* collection featuring the landmark essay “The Case for Reparations,” the National Book Award-winning author of Between the World and Me “reflects on race, Barack Obama’s pr
- Author: Coates, Ta-Nehisi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 03, 2017
- ISBN10: 0399590560
- Language: English
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Finding Beauty in the Gray: Stories and Verse from the Third Age
$16.95 Add to cartIn this brilliant collection of essays, Finding Beauty in the Gray invites you into the living rooms, backyard gardens, mountain apple orchards, and coastal boardwalks of folks approaching, or in the … [more below]
- Author: Willard, Hugh J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1960146807
- Language: English
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The Lines That Make Us: Stories from Nathan’s Bus
$19.95 Read moreNathan Vass has been driving a Seattle city bus at night for the last decade. He began writing a popular blog, The View from Nathan’s Bus, about his encounters with the riders of the No. 7 bus, which … [more below]
- Author: Vass, Nathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: April 06 2021
- ISBN10: 1634050150
- Language: English
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The Reckonings: Essays on Justice for the Twenty-First Century
$19.99 Add to cart“Unflinching and honest…both timely and timeless” (Houston Chronicle), this extraordinary collection of essays by the award-winning writer of The Other Side–rooted in her own experience with sexual… [more below]
- Author: Johnson, Lacy M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 04 2019
- ISBN10: 1501159011
- Language: English
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The Good Immigrant: 26 Writers Reflect on America
$19.99 Add to cartBy turns heartbreaking and hilarious, troubling and uplifting, these “electric” essays come together to create a provocative, conversation-sparking, multivocal portrait of modern America (The Washingt… [more below]
- Author: Shukla, Nikesh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 04 2020
- ISBN10: 0316524239
- Language: English
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Nerd: Adventures in Fandom from This Universe to the Multiverse
$17.99 Add to cartIn the vein of You’re Never Weird on the Internet (Almost) and Black Nerd Problems, this witty, incisive essay collection from New York Times critic at large Maya Phillips explores race, religion, sex… [more below]
- Author: Phillips, Maya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1982165782
- Language: English
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In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens: Womanist Prose
$19.99 Read moreIn this groundbreaking classic essay collection, Alice Walker speaks out as a Black woman, writer, mother, and feminist on topics ranging from the personal to the political.
This edition includes a new
- Author: Walker, Alice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: November 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0063346842
- Language: English
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My People: Five Decades of Writing about Black Lives
$21.99 Add to cart“Charlayne Hunter-Gault is an eminent Dean of American journalism, a vital voice whose work chronicled the civil rights movement and so much of what has transpired since then. My People is the definit
- Author: Hunter-Gault, Charlayne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 006313540X
- Language: English
