Essays
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My Life with Bob: Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues
$19.99 Add to cartPeople Pick – O Magazine Title to Pick Up Now – Vanity Fair Hot Type – Glamour New Book You’re Guaranteed to Love This Summer – LitHub.com Best Book about Books – Buzzfeed Book You Need to Read This S
- Author: Paul, Pamela
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1250182549
- Language: English
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Immemorial
$17.95 Add to cart“Markham delivers a probing meditation on grief, memory, and memorialization… Plaintive and powerful, this is hard to forget.”–Publishers Weekly
A speculative essay on language in the face of climat… [more below]
- Series: Undelivered Lectures
- Author: Markham, Lauren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 9798893389036
- Language: English
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We Are Animals: On the Nature and Politics of Motherhood
$19.95 Add to cartWhen Jennifer Case became pregnant unexpectedly with her second child, she was overwhelmed at the prospect of caring for another child in a society with high expectations and low support for mothers.
- Author: Case, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 1595343016
- Language: English
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Black Friend: Essays
$16.00 Add to cartFrom the writer crowned one of the smartest, funniest voices in modern America, this hotly anticipated debut collection of essays offers “a precious glimpse into how Ziwe’s uniquely fearless mind func… [more below]
- Author: Ziwe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1419777971
- Language: English
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Wave of Blood
$16.00 Add to cartWrestling with the mind of war, at times shocking in its self-analysis, WAVE OF BLOOD is a furious, strange and sincere essay, an eclipse notebook, a family chronicle, all told in the poetry of witnes… [more below]
- Author: Reines, Ariana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: January 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1739516141
- Language: English
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Feeding a Divided America: Reflections of a Western Rancher in the Era of Climate Change
$24.95 Add to cartIn Feeding a Divided America, third-generation Montana rancher and international agriculture development specialist Gilles Stockton explores the causes of what he refers to as the “rural-urban divide
- Series: New Century Gardens and Landscapes of the American Southwest
- Author: Stockton, Gilles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: May 15 2024
- ISBN10: 0826366104
- Language: English
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The Picture Not Taken: On Life and Photography
$18.95 Add to cartAn ecologically minded collection of essays in the vein of Rebecca Solnit and Susan Sontag, covering everything from the equipment of photography to the difficulties of perception itself.
In The Pictu- Author: Swett, Benjamin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 1681378639
- Language: English
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Notes from the Porch: Tiny True Stories to Make You Feel Better about the World
$14.99 Add to cartSilver Winner, Inspirational, 2025 IBPA Book Award
Silver Winner, Creative Nonfiction, 2024 IPNE Award
From the author of the international bestseller The Headmaster’s Wife and other novels comes a coll
- Author: Greene, Thomas Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 142
- Publish Date: September 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1578691796
- Language: English
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At Wit’s End: Cartoonists of the New Yorker
$35.00 Add to cartAn exclusive sneak peek inside the creative minds of more than 50 New Yorker cartoonists, celebrating legends and newcomers alike with stunning photography and engaging profiles.
For a century, The Ne- Author: Macweeney, Alen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 0593581059
- Language: English
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A Not Entirely Benign Procedure: Four Years as a Medical Student
$24.00 Add to cart“Fascinating… Klass writes with wit, intelligence, and a great deal of insight.”–The New York Times Book Review
Acclaimed pediatrician, journalist, and novelist Perri Klass offers a provocative loo- Author: Klass, Perri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 01 1994
- ISBN10: 0452272580
- Language: English
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Clover Garden: A Carolinian’s Piedmont Memoir
$26.00 Add to cartBetween North Carolina’s coastal plain and the Blue Ridge Mountains lies the Piedmont: some 250 linear miles of rolling, long-settled lands covering almost half of the state. Geologically speaking, pi… [more below]
- Author: Simpson, Bland
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 1469682893
- Language: English
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Disappearing the President: Trump, Truth Social, and the Fight for the Republic
$32.99 Add to cart“Lee Smith is a great American patriot who has understood, from the very beginning, that the radical left is the true THREAT TO DEMOCRACY.”
—Donald Trump, former president of the United States
From Le
- Author: Smith, Lee
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 1641774576
- Language: English
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Constant Reader: The New Yorker Columns 1927-28
$19.00 Add to cartDorothy Parker’s complete weekly New Yorker column about books and people and the rigors of reviewing.
When, in 1927, Dorothy Parker became a book critic for the New Yorker, she was already a legendar
- Author: Parker, Dorothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1961341255
- Language: English
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The Passenger: Naples
$22.00 Add to cartFully-illustrated, The Passenger collects the best new writing, photography, art and reportage from around the world.
IN THIS VOLUME: Paolo Macry on Naples’ “monarch mayors”・Francesco Abazia on
- Series: Passenger
- Author: VV Aa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1787705315
- Language: English
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A Black Girl in the Middle: Essays on (Allegedly) Figuring It All Out
$24.95 Read moreA blazingly honest essay collection from a refreshing new voice exploring the in-between moments for Black women and girls, and what it means to simply exist
“At thirty-seven years old I can say Shene- Author: Golding, Shenequa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 0807007986
- Language: English
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Dancing on My Own: Essays on Art, Collectivity, and Joy
$27.99 Add to cartA Literary Hub Most Noteworthy Nonfiction Book of 2024 – A Brooklyn Rail Best Art Book of 2024 – A The Millions and Hyperallergic Most Anticipated Book of 2024 – A Publishers Weekly Summer Reads Pick
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- Author: Wu, Simon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 25 2024
- ISBN10: 006331620X
- Language: English
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Seed to Dust: Life, Nature, and a Country Garden
$19.95 Add to cartFor readers of Late Migrations and H is for Hawk
A stunning meditation on gardening and the wisdom of plants, ” that rare book that will appeal to nonfiction readers everywhere. . . Candid, tender, th- Author: Hamer, Marc
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1778401805
- Language: English
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On the Couch: Writers Analyze Sigmund Freud
$29.95 Add to cartA collection of colorful and candid essays and other pieces about Freud and his legacy today, featuring twenty-five leading writers
With original contributions by Andr? Aciman – Sarah Boxer – Jennifer- Author: Blauner, Andrew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 0691242437
- Language: English
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Globetrotting: Writers Walk the World
$21.95 Add to cart“There was nowhere to go but everywhere.” –Jack Kerouac
From Duncan Minshull, the UK’s “laureate of walking,” a collection of more than fifty writings about hiking the globe from contemporary and cla- Author: Minshull, Duncan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1912559455
- Language: English
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Essays on Art and Science
$26.95 Add to cartWhen we view a work of art, we often experience an emotional response, but the causes of our reactions are complex. Our knowledge of why we respond to art as we do is rooted in science–in psychology
- Author: Kandel, Eric R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 0231212569
- Language: English
