Essays
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In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens: Womanist Prose
$17.99 Read morePulitzer Prize-winning author of The Color Purple, Alice Walker’s collection of essays ranging in topics from personal to political. “Thoughtful, intelligent, resonant musings.” — Kirkus Reviews
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- Author: Walker, Alice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 397
- Publish Date: May 17, 2004
- ISBN10: 0156028646
- Language: English
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On Work: Money, Meaning, Identity
$12.95 Read moreA rousing commentary on the history of labor and the future of work. An Atlantic Edition, featuring long-form journalism by Atlantic writers, drawn from contemporary articles or classic storytelling f
- Series: Atlantic Editions
- Author: Thompson, Derek
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1638930724
- Language: English
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Artless: Stories 2019-2023
$16.95 Add to cartA document of New York from an author too close to the story to be a trustworthy eyewitness.
Composed of stories, fragmentary essays, and even press releases Stagg has been commissioned to write, Artl- Series: Semiotext(e) / Native Agents
- Author: Stagg, Natasha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1635901901
- Language: English
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A Map Is Only One Story: Twenty Writers on Immigration, Family, and the Meaning of Home
$16.95 Add to cartFrom rediscovering an ancestral village in China to experiencing the realities of American life as a Nigerian, the search for belonging crosses borders and generations.
Selected from the archives of- Author: Chung, Nicole
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 11 2020
- ISBN10: 1948226782
- Language: English
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Thick: And Other Essays
$18.99 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: McMillan Cottom, Tressie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1620975874
- Language: English
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Raising Hell, Living Well: Freedom from Influence in a World Where Everyone Wants Something from You (Including Me)
$28.00 Read morePart cultural criticism, part rueful confessional, a reformed brand strategist brings to light the impact of influence on us and our society and offers an escape in this ironically persuasive case for… [more below]
- Author: Elefante, Jessica
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 593500555
- Language: English
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Nothing Personal
$20.00 Add to cartJames Baldwin’s critique of American society at the height of the civil rights movement brings his prescient thoughts on social isolation, race, and police brutality to a new generation of readers.
Av- Author: Baldwin, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: 4-May-21
- ISBN10: 0807006424
- Language: English
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Encounterism: The Neglected Joys of Being in Person
$17.95 Add to cartThe light touch of a hairdresser’s hands on one’s scalp, the euphoric energy of a nightclub, huddling with strangers under a shelter in the rain, a spontaneous snowball fight in the street, a daily in
- Author: Field, Andy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 18, 2023
- ISBN10: 1324036583
- Language: English
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Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers
$18.00 Read moreRadical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers is classic Tom Wolfe, a funny, irreverent, and “delicious” (The Wall Street Journal) dissection of class and status by the master of New Journalism
The p- Author: Wolfe, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: July 21, 2009
- ISBN10: 0312429134
- Language: English
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Bad Feminist
$18.99 Add to cart“Roxane Gay is so great at weaving the intimate and personal with what is most bewildering and upsetting at this moment in culture. She is always looking, always thinking, always passionate, always ca
- Author: Gay, Roxane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 05 2014
- ISBN10: 0062282719
- Language: English
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Transient and Strange: Notes on the Science of Life
$27.99 Add to cartIn her career as a science reporter, Nell Greenfieldboyce has reported from inside a space shuttle, the bottom of a coal mine, and the control room of a particle collider; she’s presented news on the
- Author: Greenfieldboyce, Nell
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 16, 2024
- ISBN10: 0393882349
- Language: English
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How to Write about Africa: Collected Works
$27.00 Add to cartFrom one of Africa’s most influential and eloquent essayists, a posthumous collection that highlights his biting satire and subversive wisdom on topics from travel to cultural identity to sexuality
“A- Author: Wainaina, Binyavanga
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 06, 2023
- ISBN10: 0812989651
- Language: English
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Love That Story: Observations from a Gorgeously Queer Life
$18.99 Read moreThe Emmy-nominated host of Netflix’s Queer Eye follows up his New York Times-bestselling memoir, Over The Top, with this collection of thought-provoking essays on grief and healing, cannabis reform, L
- Author: Van Ness, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0063082276
- Language: English
