Essays
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The Year’s Best Sports Writing 2025
$21.95 Read moreA must-read collection featuring the best in sports journalism
Editor Hanif Abdurraqib has curated an essential anthology showcasing incredible feats and diverse perspectives across the world of spor- Author: Abdurraqib, Hanif
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1637277458
- Language: English
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The Mountains of California
$17.00 Add to cartA stirring tribute to one of America’s most remote and beautiful places by one of the first modern preservationists
This Penguin Classic-Muir’s first book-puts a pioneering conservationist’s passion- Author: Muir, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0143105256
- Language: English
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Feast on Your Life: Kitchen Meditations for Every Day
$29.00 Add to cartFrom the award-winning author of An Everlasting Meal comes a record of daily delights from inside the kitchen and just outside it; designed to help you find joy every day.
“Delight in food, in eating,- Author: Adler, Tamar
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1668078023
- Language: English
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Driftless: An Anthology of Voices from Where We Live
$15.00 Add to cartDriftless: an Anthology of Voices from Where We Live brings together essays and poems that write about place through the lenses of family, love, work, home & un-homedness, welcome and exclusion, creat
- Author: Kubasta, Christina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 142
- Publish Date: July 29 2025
- ISBN10: 1967311765
- Language: English
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Bone of the Bone: Essays on America by a Daughter of the Working Class
$20.00 Add to cart“A must-read for today’s politics” (San Francisco Chronicle), the brilliant and provocative essays that established National Book Award finalist Sarah Smarsh as one of the most important commentators … [more below]
- Author: Smarsh, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 1668061848
- Language: English
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Inhabit the Poem: Last Essays
$24.95 Add to cartIn 13 essays, the great poetry critic offers her final word on the poems and poets who have meant the most to her, from Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson to Wallace Stevens and Sylvia Plath
Helen Vendl- Author: Vendler, Helen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 290
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1598538276
- Language: English
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These Things Really Do Happen To Me
$19.99 Add to cartA delightful collection of everyday stories that will make you laugh, cry, and ponder life’s big questions.
Khaya Dlanga is known to many as a highly regarded marketing professional who has worked for
- Author: Dlanga, Khaya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1770106316
- Language: English
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Emerson, the Stoics, and Me: Timeless Wisdom for Living an Authentic Life
$18.99 Add to cart“This is a beautiful book, full of ideas that could help restore America’s genius for freedom and promise.” –Thomas Moore, New York Times bestselling author of Care of the Soul
A lifelong Emersonian s
- Author: Matousek, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 0063059703
- Language: English
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How the Hell Did I Not Know That?: My Midlife Year from Couch to Curiosity
$19.95 Add to cartA witty memoir about the power of curiosity and learning how to laugh at inappropriate things
- Author: Frost, Lucie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: August 26 2025
- ISBN10: 1595343180
- Language: English
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We’re Alone: Essays
$18.00 Add to cartA collection of exceptional new essays by one of the most significant contemporary writers on the world stage
Tracing a loose arc from Edwidge Danticat’s childhood to the COVID-19 pandemic and recent- Author: Danticat, Edwidge
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1644453533
- Language: English
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Bargain Witch: Essays in Self-Initiation
$17.95 Add to cartAn occult history that grounds the sacred yearning for magic in real life.
In these essays by scholar and self-initiated witch Brooke Palmieri, occult history, the eternal now, and our magickal queer- Author: Palmieri, Brooke
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1635902657
- Language: English
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Jean–Michel Basquiat: The Making of an Icon
$34.95 Add to cartIn a resurrection few could have predicted, Jean-Michel Basquiat joined Picasso, Modigliani, and Munch when one of his paintings sold for more than $100 million. Nearly four decades after his untimely
- Author: Woodham, Doug
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 0500030693
- Language: English
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Heretic: A Queer Revolt Against Evangelicalism, Empire, and the Lies We Are Sold
$18.99 Add to cartA memoir of leaving the evangelical church and the search for radical new ways to build community.
Jeanna Kadlec knew what it meant to be faithful–in her marriage to a pastor’s son, in the comfortab
- Author: Kadlec, Jeanna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 006348904X
- Language: English
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Vik Muniz on Photography, Mind, and Matter
$29.95 Add to cartIn this volume of The Photography Workshop Series, Vik Muniz–known for his playful pictures that complicate what is understood as a photograph, sculpture, or painting–offers his insight into thinkin… [more below]
- Series: Photography Workshop
- Author: Muniz, Vik
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 12 2025
- ISBN10: 1597114456
- Language: English
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Joyful Recollections of Trauma
$18.99 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
NAMED A 2024 BOOK OF THE YEAR BY VULTURE AND BOOKLIST
AN AUDIE AWARD FINALIST
“Paul Scheer delivers a deeply funny, personal and moving account of how joy and pain are the perfe
- Author: Scheer, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 0063293722
- Language: English
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Dead and Alive: Essays
$32.00 Add to cartA profound and unparalleled literary voice, Zadie Smith returns with a resounding collection of essays
In the past two decades, few writers have been able to master the craft and art of the essay in t- Author: Smith, Zadie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 564
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 9798217168989
- Language: English
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What Sheep Think about the Weather: How to Listen to What Animals Are Trying to Say
$17.99 Add to cartAre animals trying to tell us something–and have we been too distracted to notice?
It started with a hummingbird dive-bombing Amelia Thomas over her morning coffee, and a pair of piglets who just woul
- Author: Thomas, Amelia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1464218455
- Language: English
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Point Blank: (Quick Studies)
$45.00 Add to cartPoint Blank (Quick Studies) is the first major publication of Bob Dylan’s artwork in over a decade, featuring nearly 100 never-before-seen drawings.
Bob Dylan is a master at telling stories, creating- Author: Dylan, Bob
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1668222213
- Language: English
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Quentin Blake’s Fantastic Journeys
$19.99 Add to cartSavor the work of the well-loved and lauded illustrator Quentin Blake in this keepsake collection of fun, quirky drawings that will delight both longtime devotees and emerging young fans.
A chef in m- Author: Blake, Quentin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 1536245089
- Language: English
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Disinherited Mind: Essays in Modern German Literature and Thought
$18.99 Add to cartSince first publication in 1952, The Disinherited Mind has been in continuous demand, recognized as a work whose significance extends far beyond the subject of German letters. The noted critic and poe… [more below]
- Author: Heller, Erich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 19 1975
- ISBN10: 0156261006
- Language: English
