Essays
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In Praise of Houseflies: Meditations on the Gifts in Everyday Quandaries
$23.99 Add to cartThrough the lens of personal experience, Elise Tegegne reflects on the redemptive glimmers in ordinary challenges ranging from canceled flights to insomnia. In Praise of Houseflies offers readers an o
- Author: Tegegne, Elise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 19 2025
- ISBN10: 1966828039
- Language: English
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Fearless, Sleepless, Deathless: What Fungi Taught Me about Nourishment, Poison, Ecology, Hidden Histories, Zombies, and Black Survival
$24.00 Add to cartNaturalist, forager, and educator Maria Pinto offers a stunning debut book that uncovers strange and beautiful fungal connections between the natural and human worlds. She mingles reportage, research,… [more below]
- Series: Great Circle Books
- Author: Pinto, Maria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1469689790
- Language: English
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The Gifts of Reading for the Next Generation: Essays on Nurturing a Passion for Reading
$30.00 Add to cartInspired by Robert Macfarlane and curated by Jennie Orchard, an anthology of essays about the joys of giving books to children and young people, from some of the world’s most beloved writers.
Remember
- Author: Orchard, Jennie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1964992125
- Language: English
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Selected Misdemeanors: Essays at the Mercy of the Reader
$21.95 Add to cartThe essays in Selected Misdemeanors are unapologetic word grenades lobbed into an otherwise complacent forgetfulness. Throughout the collection, Sue William Silverman focuses on pivotal, often fleetin… [more below]
- Author: Silverman, Sue William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: September 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1496244222
- Language: English
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Ruptured: Jewish Women in Australia Reflect on Life Post-October 7
$22.99 Read moreIn this powerful collection of personal essays, thirty-six Australian Jewish women, including Ramona Koval, Dani Valent and Kylie Moore-Gilbert, reveal how their lives were turned upside down in the w
- Author: Kofman, Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: August 01 2025
- ISBN10: 0646714368
- Language: English
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Solidarity with Children: An Essay Against Adult Supremacy
$19.95 Add to cartA revolutionary feminist case for child liberation, a utopian project that helps us imagine ways to build insurgent, collective forms of care.
We live in a world that is profoundly against children-
- Author: Lane-McKinley, Madeline
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 9798888904657
- Language: English
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Janet Flanner’s World: Uncollected Writings 1932-1975
$17.99 Add to cartThe pieces collected here include an early profile of Hitler, reports on the Nuremberg trials, portraits of Thomas Mann, Bette Davis, Picasso, and concerts and art exhibits. Edited by Irving Drutman. … [more below]
- Author: Flanner
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 14 1981
- ISBN10: 015645971X
- Language: English
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Gaia and Philosophy
$9.99 Add to cartIn the 1970s, microbiologist Lynn Margulis and atmospheric chemist James Lovelock developed the Gaia theory. Embracing the circular logic of life and engineering systems, the Gaia theory states that E… [more below]
- Series: Portals
- Author: Margulis, Lynn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 60
- Publish Date: December 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1739371763
- Language: English
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Posthuman Knowledge and the Critical Posthumanities
$18.00 Add to cartOn the advanced knowledge economy, which perpetuates patterns of discrimination and exclusion, and the threat of climate change devastation for both human and nonhuman entities.
Robots designed to car- Series: Sternberg Press / The Incidents
- Author: Braidotti, Rosi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: May 20 2025
- ISBN10: 3956796101
- Language: English
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Storm Pegs: A Life Made in Shetland
$18.99 Add to cart‘Storm Pegs perfectly captures the knotting of language and landscape. I was transported.’ – Katherine May, Sunday Times bestselling author of Wintering
From the winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize and the- Author: Hadfield, Jen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 26 2025
- ISBN10: 1529038030
- Language: English
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The Idea of America: Reflections on the Birth of the United States
$30.00 Add to cart“Exceptional… a remarkable study of the key chapter of American history and its ongoing influence on American character.”–Publishers Weekly (starred review)
The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian of- Author: Wood, Gordon S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 26 2012
- ISBN10: 0143121243
- Language: English
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The Possibility of Tenderness: A Jamaican Memoir of Plants and Dreams
$20.00 Add to cartLonglisted for the 2025 Wainwright Prize in Nature Writing
“Extraordinary . . . Surprising at every turn and rewarding in ways you never expect.”—Marlon James
“An extraordinary, necessary book from a b
- Author: Allen-Paisant, Jason
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 1639551573
- Language: English
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Life on a Little-Known Planet: Dispatches from a Changing World
$32.00 Add to cartA landmark collection of Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Kolbert’s most important pieces about climate change and the natural world
“To be a well-informed citizen of Planet Earth,” Rolling Stone has a- Author: Kolbert, Elizabeth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 9798217086061
- Language: English
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Racebook: A Personal History of the Internet
$27.00 Add to cartFrom the author of Hugo and NAACP Image Award finalist Riot Baby, an original memoir in essays that interrogates how identities are shaped and informed in online spaces and how the relationship betwee
- Author: Onyebuchi, Tochi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 0802166253
- Language: English
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Pinheads and Patriots: Where You Stand in the Age of Obama
$17.99 Add to cartTelevision host, razor sharp political pundit, and #1 bestselling author Bill O’Reilly focuses in on where we all stand in the Age of Obama in Pinheads and Patriots. In this brave, hard-hitting, provo
- Author: O’Reilly, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 06 2011
- ISBN10: 0061950734
- Language: English
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Uncanny Valley Girls: Essays on Horror, Survival, and Love
$17.99 Add to cartA Literary Hub Most Anticipated Book of the Year
“In Uncanny Valley Girls, horror is more than a genre–it is a language, a sensibility, a lifeline, a semaphore between culture and our own grief and pa
- Author: Lisowski, Zefyr
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 006341399X
- Language: English
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The Places of Marguerite Duras
$25.00 Add to cartThe first English translation of an important and evocative interview-turned-book project in Marguerite Duras’ illustrious oeuvre
“I could talk for hours about this house, this garden. I know it all, I
- Author: Duras, Marguerite
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: May 27 2025
- ISBN10: 1738901343
- Language: English
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Radiance of the Ordinary: Essays on Life, Death, and the Sinews That Bind
$28.00 Add to cartFrom the author of the popular Slowdown Farmstead Substack, a collection of stories about cultivating authenticity in an age of great pretend–through our work, our homemaking, our food, our relations… [more below]
- Author: Couture, Tara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1645023095
- Language: English
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Beneath the Surface of Things: New and Selected Essays
$18.95 Add to cart“Wade Davis is a true wayfinder, and these essays offer new insight into his visionary approach to culture, landscape, and the planet he loves as fiercely as any writer working today.”–John Vaillant,… [more below]
- Author: Davis, Wade
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1778402836
- Language: English
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The War on Science: Thirty-Nine Renowned Scientists and Scholars Speak Out about Current Threats to Free Speech, Open Inquiry, and the Scientific Proc
$37.50 Read moreAn unparalleled group of prominent scholars from wide-ranging disciplines detail ongoing efforts to impose ideological restrictions on science and scholarship throughout western society.
From assaults- Author: Krauss, Lawrence M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: July 29 2025
- ISBN10: 9798888457566
- Language: English
