Classics / Criticism
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I Seem to Live: The New York Diaries, 1950-1969: Volume 1
$45.00 Read moreI Seem to Live chronicles the beginnings of New York’s avant-garde film world and the emergence of a counterculture
Jonas Mekas’ I Seem to Live picks up in the 1950s, where his extraordinary and popula
- Author: Mekas, Jonas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 824
- Publish Date: February 11 2020
- ISBN10: 395905288X
- Language: English
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These Precious Days: Essays
$28.99 Read moreThe beloved New York Times bestselling author reflects on home, family, friendships and writing in this deeply personal collection of essays.
“The elegance of Patchett’s prose is seductive and invitin
- Author: Patchett, Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: November 23 2021
- ISBN10: 0063118033
- Language: English
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The Love That Dares: Letters of LGBTQ+ Love & Friendship Through History
$19.99 Read moreAn intimate and inspiring collection of letters revealing some of the greatest queer love stories in history
“What this charming, moving and fascinating collection proves is that the [letter] form its… [more below]- Author: Smith, Rachel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 178157829X
- Language: English
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Black Paper: Writing in a Dark Time
$26.00 Read moreA profound book of essays from a celebrated master of the form.
“Darkness is not empty,” writes Teju Cole in Black Paper, a book that meditates on what it means to sustain our humanity–and witness t- Series: Berlin Family Lectures
- Author: Cole, Teju
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 27 2021
- ISBN10: 022664135X
- Language: English
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Who Will Pay Reparations on My Soul?: Essays
$17.95 Read moreRanging from Ta-Nehisi Coates’s case for reparations to Toni Morrison’s revolutionary humanism to D’Angelo’s simmering blend of R&B and racial justice, Jesse McCarthy’s bracing essays investigate with
- Author: McCarthy, Jesse
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1324091479
- Language: English
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Echo
$16.95 Read moreAn exploration of echo not as simple repetition but as an agent of creative possibilities.
In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Amit Pinchevski proposes that echo is not simple- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Pinchevski, Amit
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: May 10 2022
- ISBN10: 0262543400
- Language: English
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The Age of Goodbyes
$17.95 Read moreBy one of Southeast Asia’s most exciting writers, The Age of Goodbyes is a wildly inventive account of family history, political turmoil, and the redemptive grace of storytelling.
In 1969, in the wake … [more below]
- Author: Li, Zi Shu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1952177693
- Language: English
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Literary Cats
$25.00 Read moreA light-hearted journey through the history of literary cats.
From Puss in Boots to T. S. Eliot’s Jellicles, cats have long inspired an incredible range of fiction, memoir, and poetry. This book cele- Author: Robinson, Judith
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: December 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1851245731
- Language: English
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Amelia Peabody’s Egypt: A Compendium
$29.95 Read moreThe Egypt that so enticed and enchanted intrepid archaeologist-sleuth Amelia Peabody in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was a place of wonder, mystery, danger, and the lure of antiqu
- Author: Peters, Elizabeth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 334
- Publish Date: July 25 2017
- ISBN10: 0060538112
- Language: English
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A Sportsman’s Notebook: Stories
$16.99 Read moreTwenty-five beautifully written stories, penned in exile, evocatively depicting life on a manor in feudal Russia and examining the conflicts between serfs and landlords
A Sportsman’s Notebook, Ivan Tur
- Series: Art of the Story
- Author: Turgenev, Ivan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 07 2020
- ISBN10: 0062968475
- Language: English
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Critical Revolutionaries: Five Critics Who Changed the Way We Read
$20.00 Read moreTerry Eagleton looks back across sixty years to an extraordinary critical milieu that transformed the study of literature
Before the First World War, traditional literary scholarship was isolated fro- Author: Eagleton, Terry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0300270445
- Language: English
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Claudius the God: And His Wife Messalina
$19.00 Add to cart- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Graves, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 533
- Publish Date: October 23 1989
- ISBN10: 0679725733
- Language: English
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The Bridegroom Was a Dog
$10.95 Add to cartThe Bridegroom Was a Dog is perhaps the Japanese-German writer Yoko Tawada’s most famous story. Its initial publication in 1998 garnered admiration from The New Yorker, who praised it as, “fast-movin
- Series: New Directions Pearls #0
- Author: Tawada, Yoko
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: November 27 2012
- ISBN10: 0811220370
- Language: English
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The Return of the Soldier
$15.00 Add to cartA soldier returns home transformed by World War I, sending shock waves through the lives of three women, in Rebecca West’s groundbreaking debut novel
Jenny has been waiting for the return of her cousi- Series: Modern Library Torchbearers
- Author: West, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: June 08 2004
- ISBN10: 0812971221
- Language: English
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Dear Mary: Letters Home from the 10th Mountain Division (1944-1945)
$22.00 Add to cartSydney M. Williams, Jr., joined the American army in 1944 and served in the 10th Mountain Division in Italy until his release in 1945. All during that time he wrote letters home to his beloved wife, M… [more below]
- Author: Williams, Sydney M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 18 2019
- ISBN10: 0872332918
- Language: English
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Poems of a Penisist
$19.95 Read more“In the name of / Man, member, / and the holy fluid, / Amen,” begins Mutsuo Takahashi’s epic one-thousand-line erotic fantasy poem, “Ode,” the centerpiece of his groundbreaking collection of queer poe
- Author: Takahashi, Mutsuo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 29 2012
- ISBN10: 081667972X
- Language: English
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The Wapsipinicon Almanac: Selections from Thirty Years
$27.50 Read moreIn 1988, Timothy Fay published the very first issue of the Wapsipinicon Almanac at his Route 3 Press in Anamosa, Iowa. Fay’s goal was to offer a journal somewhat outside of mainstream Iowa journalism…. [more below]
- Series: Bur Oak Book
- Author: Fay, Timothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 267
- Publish Date: April 19 2023
- ISBN10: 1609388879
- Language: English
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Ethan Frome: Annotated Edition
$10.00 Read moreTrapped in a loveless marriage and weighed down by poverty, Ethan Frome’s days are enlivened by the presence of Mattie, his ailing wife Zeena’s youthful and charming cousin, who provides help to the h
- Author: Wharton, Edith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1847499066
- Language: English
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El Fuego de la Imaginación: Libros, Escenarios, Pantallas Y Museos. Obra Periodí Stica 1 / The Fire of Imagination. Journalistic Works 1
$24.95 Read moreLA CULTURA, PROTAGONISTA DEL PRIMER VOLUMEN DE LA OBRA PERIODÍSTICA DEL PREMIO NOBEL DE LITERATURA MARIO VARGAS LLOSA
«No hay cultura genuina sin pluralidad de ideas y sin crítica
Durante más- Series: Obra Periodística
- Author: Llosa, Mario Vargas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 792
- Publish Date: February 14 2023
- ISBN10: 6073823584
- Language: Spanish
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Sidewalks
$16.95 Read moreGrantland Book of the Year
Vol. 1 Brooklyn, A Year of Favorites, Jason Diamond
Book Riot, 2014’s Must-Read Books from Indie Presses“Valeria Luiselli is a writer of formidable talent, destined to be an
- Author: Luiselli, Valeria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: May 13 2014
- ISBN10: 1566893569
- Language: English
