Classics / Criticism
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The Art of Daring: Risk, Restlessness, Imagination
$15.00 Read moreThe award-winning poet Carl Phillips’s invaluable essays on poetry, the tenth volume in the celebrated Art of series of books on the craft of writing
In seven insightful essays, Carl Phillips meditate- Series: Art Of…
- Author: Phillips, Carl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: August 05 2014
- ISBN10: 1555976816
- Language: English
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Uncollected Works: Oscar Acosta
$14.95 Read moreThis milestone collection gathers unpublished stories, essays, letters, poems and a teleplay written by Acosta (1935-1974), the legendary Chicano attorney, political activist and writer, between the e… [more below]
- Author: Acosta, Oscar Zeta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: May 01 1996
- ISBN10: 1558850996
- Language: English
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The Black Spider
$15.95 Add to cartAn NYRB Classics Original
It is a sunny summer Sunday in a remote Swiss village, and a christening is being celebrated at a lovely old farmhouse. One of the guests notes an anomaly in the fabric of th- Author: Gotthelf, Jeremias
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: October 08 2013
- ISBN10: 1590176685
- Language: English
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The Enchanted April
$10.00 Read moreFour women, with very different backgrounds and characters – the artless Lottie Wilkins, the pious Rose Arbuthnot, the cantankerous Mrs Fisher and the haughty Lady Caroline Dester – respond to an adve
- Series: Evergreens
- Author: Armin, Elizabeth Von
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 28 2018
- ISBN10: 1847497217
- Language: English
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Against Memoir: Complaints, Confessions & Criticisms
$18.95 Read moreThe PEN Award-winning essay collection about queer lives: “Gorgeously punk-rock rebellious.”–The A.V. Club
The razor-sharp but damaged Valerie Solanas, a doomed lesbian biker gang, recovering alcohol
- Author: Tea, Michelle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: May 08 2018
- ISBN10: 1936932180
- Language: English
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The Mausoleum of Lovers: Journals 1976-1991: Journals 1976-1991
$24.95 Read moreThe Mausoleum of Lovers comprises Guibert’s journals, kept from 1976-1991. Functioning as an atelier, it forecasts the writing of a novel, which does not materialize as such; the journal itself — a m… [more below]
- Author: Guibert, Hervé
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 584
- Publish Date: May 01 2014
- ISBN10: 1937658228
- Language: English
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
$12.99 Read moreLittle treasures, the FLAME TREE COLLECTABLE CLASSICS are chosen to create a delightful and timeless home library. Each stunning, gift edition features deluxe cover treatments, ribbon markers, luxury … [more below]
- Series: Flame Tree Collectable Classics
- Author: Wilde, Oscar
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 24 2020
- ISBN10: 1839641819
- Language: English
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Plastic: An Autobiography
$19.95 Read moreWINNER of the 2022 Oregon Book Award for Creative Nonfiction!
WINNER of the 2022 CLMP Firecracker Award in Creative Nonfiction!
“Plastic is powerful and moving, a deep, personal exploration of the moder
- Author: Cobb, Allison
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 20 2021
- ISBN10: 164362038X
- Language: English
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Blackspace: On the Poetics of an Afrofuture
$18.95 Add to cartBlack artists of the avant-garde have always defined the future.
Blackspace: On the Poetics of an Afrofuture is the culmination of six years of multidisciplinary research by trans poet and curator Ana- Series: Undercurrents
- Author: Duplan, Anaïs
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 126
- Publish Date: October 06 2020
- ISBN10: 1939568323
- Language: English
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Horse Girls: Recovering, Aspiring, and Devoted Riders Redefine the Iconic Bond
$17.00 Read more“A wild, rollicking ride into the heart of horse country–these essays get at what it means to love horses, in all that love’s complexity.” –Anton DiSclafani, author of The Yonahlossee Riding Camp fo
- Author: Marcus, Halimah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 03 2021
- ISBN10: 0063009250
- Language: English
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Try Not to Be Strange: The Curious History of the Kingdom of Redonda
$18.95 Read moreShortlisted for the 2023 Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book Prize
On his fifteenth birthday, in the summer of 1880, future science-fiction writer M.P. Shiel sailed with his father and the local bish
- Author: Hingston, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 302
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 1771964154
- Language: English
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Of Solids and Surds: Notes for No? Sturgeon, Marilyn Hacker, Josh Lukin, MIA Wolff, Bill Stribling, and Bob White
$18.00 Read moreIn the fourth volume in the Why I Write series, the iconic Samuel Delany remembers fifty years of writing and shaping the world of speculative fiction
“Delany’s prismatic output is among the most sign- Series: Why I Write
- Author: Delany, Samuel R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 0300250401
- Language: English
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The Lives of Literature: Reading, Teaching, Knowing
$49.92 Read moreA passionate, wry, and personal book about how the greatest works of literature illuminate our lives
Why do we read literature? For Arnold Weinstein, the answer is clear: literature allows us to becom- Author: Weinstein, Arnold
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 18 2022
- ISBN10: 0691177309
- Language: English
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El Arte de la Guerra
$13.95 Read moreEl taoÃsmo nos enseña a alcanzar la felicidad y la perfección mediante el conocimiento de nuestra propia persona. De este modo fluimos con el mundo y conseguimos convertir las dificultades en oport… [more below]
- Series: Pensamiento Ilustrado
- Author: Tzu, Sun
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: January 01 2022
- ISBN10: 8418395354
- Language: Spanish
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Scary Monsters: A Novel in Two Parts
$17.95 Read moreFinalist for the 2022 Kirkus Prize for Fiction
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Shortlisted for the 2022 Miles Franklin Literary Award
Shortlisted for the 2023 Rathbones Folio Prize
Longlisted for the 2022 Gordon Burn Prize (UK)- Author: de Kretser, Michelle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 26 2022
- ISBN10: 1646221095
- Language: English
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Alindarka’s Children: Things Will Be Bad
$19.95 Read moreIt’s not Avi’s fault, it’s those sourish, mind-bending little berries that are to blame, those tiny wee spheres. Bilberries, bletherberries that befuddle the mind, babbleberries that give you a kick. … [more below]
- Author: Bacharevic, Alhierd
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 21 2022
- ISBN10: 0811231968
- Language: English
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La Mujer de Blanco
$29.95 Add to cartWalter Hartright se traslada a Limmeridge para dar clases de dibujo a Laura, sobrina y heredera del bar?n Frederick Fairlie. Sin que ninguno de los dos pueda evitarlo, surge entre ellos un profundo am… [more below]
- Series: Cl?sicos Ilustrados
- Author: Collins, William Wilkie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: July 01 2022
- ISBN10: 8418395141
- Language: Spanish
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Tale of the Dreamer’s Son
$19.99 Read moreBy the author of the international bestseller Evening Is The Whole Day, this novel set in Malaysia will appeal to readers of Arundhati Roy and Kiran Desai
In what was once a Scottish tea planter’s man
- Author: Samarasan, Preeta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1642861200
- Language: English
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Exodus Revisited
$34.99 Read moreIn Exodus Revisited, Leon Uris returns to the scene of his famous bestselling novel, Exodus, which has sold over five million copies. With power, compassion, and love, he writes a revealing commentary
- Author: Uris, Leon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: March 28 2023
- ISBN10: 9798200924097
- Language: English
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Still No Word from You: Notes in the Margin
$26.00 Read moreFinalist for the Vermont Book Award
A new collection of pieces on literature and life by the author of Am I Alone Here?, a fin
Finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay- Author: Orner, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1646221362
- Language: English
