21st Century Essays
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Men I Hate: A Memoir in Essays
$23.95 Add to cartA rare spouse’s perspective on a partner’s transition that asks what happens to us when the people we are closest to change.
Can a lesbian who loves a trans man still call herself a lesbian? Against- Series: 21st Century Essays
- Author: D’Amico, Lynette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: February 17 2026
- ISBN10: 0814259693
- Language: English
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Twenty Square Feet of Skin
$22.95 Read more“A pensive inquiry, often breathtakingly beautiful and relatable, into how and where and with whom we fit.” –Kirkus
The essays in Twenty Square Feet of Skin tell their stories through the body-encase- Series: 21st Century Essays
- Author: Baxter, Megan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: May 19 2023
- ISBN10: 0814258689
- Language: English
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Mistaken for an Empire: A Memoir in Tongues
$21.95 Read more“As an adult, [Imperial] attempted what no one else had done: translating [‘The White Man’s Burden’] into Tagalog. These efforts led Imperial to reflect on her many (often disorienting) moves between … [more below]
- Series: 21st Century Essays
- Author: Imperial, Christine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0814258638
- Language: English
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Everything I Never Wanted to Know
$19.95 Read more“A dauntless and harrowing indictment of patriarchal violence.” –Publishers Weekly
In Everything I Never Wanted to Know, Christine Hume confronts the stigma and vulnerability of women’s bodies in the- Series: 21st Century Essays
- Author: Hume, Christine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: March 23 2023
- ISBN10: 081425862X
- Language: English
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Love’s Long Line
$19.95 Add to cartSophfronia Scott turns an unflinching eye on her life to deliver a poignant collection of essays ruminating on faith, motherhood, race, and the search for meaningful connection in an increasingly dis- Series: 21st Century Essays
- Author: Scott, Sophfronia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 11 2018
- ISBN10: 0814254632
- Language: English
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How to Make a Slave and Other Essays
$19.95 Add to cartFinalist, National Book Award in Nonfiction
“The essays in this collection are restless, brilliant an
Winner, Massachusetts Book Award
A Book of the Year pick from Kirkus, BuzzFeed, and Literary Hub- Series: 21st Century Essays
- Author: Walker, Jerald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: October 30 2020
- ISBN10: 081425599X
- Language: English
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Secrets of the Sun: A Memoir
$19.95 Add to cartMako Yoshikawa’s father, Shoichi, was a man of contradictions. He grew up fabulously wealthy in prewar Japan but spent his final years living in squalor; he was a proper Japanese man who craved societ… [more below]
- Series: 21st Century Essays
- Author: Yoshikawa, Mako
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: February 08 2024
- ISBN10: 081425893X
- Language: English
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The Hunger Book: A Memoir from Communist Poland
$24.95 Add to cart“A searing memoir about growing up behind the Iron Curtain, motherhood, addiction, and finding sustenance in the natural world.” –Kirkus
In The Hunger Book, Agata Izabela Brewer evokes her Polish c- Series: 21st Century Essays
- Author: Brewer, Agata Izabela
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 29 2023
- ISBN10: 0814258786
- 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
