Essays
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Making Game: An Essay on Woodcock
$19.95 Add to cartMaking Game is an edgy, elegant examination of the habits and history of a reclusive gamebird native to Europe and North America, the woodcock.
- Author: de la Valdène, Guy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1493089285
- Language: English
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Racial Fictions
$29.95 Add to cartA powerful critique of the racial myths that shape our world
Drawing on a rich tapestry of historical analysis, literary criticism, and cultural theory, Hazel V. Carby interrogates our racial fictions- Author: Carby, Hazel V.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1804299936
- Language: English
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The Portable Emerson
$27.00 Add to cartA comprehensive collection of writings by “the most influential writer of the nineteenth century” (Harold Bloom)
Ralph Waldo Emerson’s diverse body of work has done more than perhaps any other thinker- Author: Emerson, Ralph Waldo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: December 30 2014
- ISBN10: 0143107461
- Language: English
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A River Dream: The Writing and Art of Russell Chatham’s Clark City Press
$45.00 Add to cartAn anthology and tribute to a unique independent publisher, Clark City Press.
In 1987, the painter and author and fly fisherman Russell Chatham, renowned for his stunning landscape paintings and his- Author: Harrison, Jamie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1567927998
- Language: English
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Algorithm of the Night: Film Writing, 2019-2025
$23.00 Add to cart“A. S. Hamrah’s writing on film is a delight. . . . Like all the best criticism, his writing makes art and life feel less lonely.” –Elif Batuman
“Unerring” (Bookforum), “hilarious” (Dana Spiotta), “ou
- Author: Hamrah, A. S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: December 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1953813186
- Language: English
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Good Woman: A Reckoning
$28.99 Add to cartA raw and lyrical exploration of the confining expectations of womanhood and, if we dare, what lies beyond those limitations–from a writer Roxane Gay calls “vibrant and thoughtful.”
Gorgeous, badass,
- Author: Nolan, Savala
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 03 2026
- ISBN10: 0063320088
- Language: English
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Bible Belt Blues: Collected Essays
$19.95 Add to cartLike most progressive Southerners, Hal Crowther is decidedly angry about current social and political events, but few writers are more able than he to articulate the problems, the issues, and even the
- Author: Crowther, Hal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1958888664
- Language: English
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Illumination in the Flatwoods
$19.95 Add to cartAn unforgettable story about the fascinating behavior of the most elusive of wild game birds.
When Joe Hutto began his experiment in imprinting two dozen wild turkey–in the tradition of the great ani- Author: Hutto, Joe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: August 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1493036963
- Language: English
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Held: Essays in Belonging
$18.95 Add to cartFrom award-winning author Kathryn Nuernberger, Held is a collection of essays about mutualisms, mutual aid, and ways of being together in a time of climate crisis.
Here is a collection about living in- Author: Nuernberger, Kathryn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 195604647X
- Language: English
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Unqualified Reservations: Volume 2
$39.95 Add to cart- Author: Yarvin, Curtis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: December 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1959403508
- Language: English
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Frog: And Other Essays
$26.00 Add to cartA new collection of evocative personal essays from one of America’s most beloved nonfiction writers, Anne Fadiman.
In Frog, Anne Fadiman returns to her favorite genre, the essay, of which she is one o- Author: Fadiman, Anne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 10 2026
- ISBN10: 0374608741
- Language: English
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Paul Thek and Peter Hujar: Stay Away from Nothing
$30.00 Read moreFollow the friendship and romance of storied artists Peter Hujar and Paul Thek, from the US to Italy and back again, through previously unpublished letters, postcards, candid portraits and contact she
- Author: Thek, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 18 2025
- ISBN10: 9798988573685
- Language: English
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Closing the Ring
$25.00 Add to cartThe fifth volume in Winston Churchill’s magnificent history of World War II, the British prime minister and Nobel Prize winner recounts how the Allies took the fight to the enemy in this vivid histori… [more below]
- Series: Second World War #0005
- Author: Churchill, Winston S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: April 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0395410592
- Language: English
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Want: Sexual Fantasies by Anonymous
$18.00 Add to cartAn instant New York Times bestseller, Want is a collection of confessions from women around the world. This revelatory, sensational and game-changing exploration of women’s sexuality asks, and answers… [more below]
- Author: Anderson, Gillian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 13 2026
- ISBN10: 1419777300
- Language: English
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Letters to a Young Teacher
$22.00 Add to cart“This remarkable book is a testament to teachers who not only respect and advocate for children on a daily basis but who are the necessary guardians of the spirit. Every citizen who cares about the fu… [more below]
- Author: Kozol, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 05 2008
- ISBN10: 0307393720
- Language: English
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Zeno and the Tortoise: How to Think Like a Philosopher
$17.00 Add to cartFor those who don’t know the difference between Lucretius’s spear and Hume’s fork, Zeno and the Tortoise explains not just who each philosopher was and what he thought, but exactly how he came to thin
- Author: Fearn, Nicholas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 11 2002
- ISBN10: 0802139175
- Language: English
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American Struggle: Democracy, Dissent, and the Pursuit of a More Perfect Union: An Anthology
$40.00 Read moreThe #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Soul of America unites centuries of essential American voices to understand our national debates and divisions from 1619 to the present, with his signat… [more below]
- Author: Meacham, Jon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 871
- Publish Date: February 17 2026
- ISBN10: 9798217294169
- Language: English
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Thirty-Two Words for Field: Lost Words of the Irish Landscape
$19.95 Read more“What a joyful, profound, passionate revelry of a book this is–an illumination of how words make worlds; a reminder of what is lost when a language is lost; an act of salvage for ways of being and se… [more below]
- Author: Magan, Manchán
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 1645023761
- Language: English
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Life is a Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition
$15.95 Read more“[A] scathing assessment . . . Berry shows that Wilson’s much-celebrated, controversial pleas in Consilience to unify all branches of knowledge is nothing more than a fatuous subordination of religion… [more below]
- Author: Berry, Wendell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: April 19 2001
- ISBN10: 1582431418
- Language: English
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The Inventions, Researches, and Writings of Nikola Tesla
$16.99 Add to cartThe early works of famed inventor Nikola Tesla have been a source of inspiration for generations of innovators.
At the time it was first published in 1893, The Inventions, Researches, and Writings of- Series: Word Cloud Classics
- Author: Martin, Thomas Commerford
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 520
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1667211439
- Language: English
