Essays
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Meanwhile, Back in Nokomis: Tales from Canada and Elsewhere
$19.95 Add to cartWill Ferguson recounts the small, revealing moments of a travel-writing career in this funny, eclectic collection of essays–and opinions–on Canada, the writing life and the world beyond.
From the Arc
- Author: Ferguson, Will
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 15 2026
- ISBN10: 1771624841
- Language: English
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Adictos a la Ansiedad / Addicted to Anxiety
$19.95 Read moreEste libro trata sobre c?mo cambiar tu relaci?n con la ansiedad.
Este libro trata sobre romper patrones.
Este libro trata sobre asumir la responsabilidad.
Este libro trata sobre liberarse.
Este libro insp… [more below]- Author: O’Kane, Owen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: April 21 2026
- ISBN10: 607386695X
- Language: Spanish
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Pathemata, Or, the Story of My Mouth
$20.00 Add to cart***Longlisted for the 2025 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay***
Pathemata, Or, The Story of My Mouth is an experiment in interiority written in the pandemic studio. Something of… [more below]
- Author: Nelson, Maggie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: April 07 2026
- ISBN10: 9798891060388
- Language: English
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The Island Within
$21.00 Add to cartWinner of the 1990 Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award, nominated for the American Book Award, and named by Booklist as an Editor’s Choice, this is Nelson’s lovely and luminously wise account of his e… [more below]
- Author: Nelson, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 23 1991
- ISBN10: 067973239X
- Language: English
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Sez I to Myself: The Collected Essays of Frank and Malachy McCourt
$30.00 Read moreA treasure chest of never-before-collected essays from Frank McCourt, Pulitzer Prize-winning memoirist, and his boisterous brother Malachy, publishing on the 30th anniversary of Angela’s Ashes, with a
- Author: McCourt, Frank
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 08 2026
- ISBN10: 1419790986
- Language: English
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Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness
$23.00 Add to cartWere Thomas Jefferson alive to read this book, he would recognize every sentence, every elegant turn of phrase, every lofty, beautifully expressed idea. Indeed, every word in the book is his. In an as… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Jefferson, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 154
- Publish Date: June 14 2005
- ISBN10: 0812974328
- Language: English
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The Haves and Have-Yachts: Dispatches on the Ultrarich
$21.00 Add to cartINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker and The Times (London) From National Book Award-winning author Evan Osnos comes a “sharp…charming…regrettably ti- Author: Osnos, Evan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 09 2026
- ISBN10: 1668204517
- Language: English
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That’s How They Get You: An Unruly Anthology of Black American Humor
$18.00 Add to cartFrom the Thurber Prize-winning author of What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker comes a pioneering collection of Black humor from some of the most acclaimed writers and performers at work today – NOW… [more below]
- Author: Young, Damon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 09 2026
- ISBN10: 0593468716
- Language: English
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Why You Should Read Children’s Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise
$17.99 Read more
Katherine R
A celebration, in a pocket-sized format, of the joys and vital importance of children’s literature for adult readers, from the #1 New York Times Bestselling author of Impossible Creatures.- Author: Rundell, Katherine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: September 01 2026
- ISBN10: 9798217230747
- Language: English
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Receipts from the Bookshop: A Bookseller’s Year in an English Seaside Town
$28.00 Read moreBased on the popular Substack that Julia Quinn calls “delightful” and India Knight describes as “absolute heaven,” a quirky and gossipy insider glimpse at a year in the life of a family-owned bookstor
- Author: Clapham, Katie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 08 2026
- ISBN10: 0063516624
- Language: English
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Riverwalking: Reflections on Moving Water
$16.99 Add to cartIn these twenty elegant essays, a philosopher and amateur naturalist meanders along the rivers and streams of the american West-and muses on love, loss, aging, motherhood, happiness, the art of poking… [more below]
- Series: Harvest Book
- Author: Moore, Kathleen Dean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 18 2011
- ISBN10: 0156004615
- Language: English
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The Mountains of California
$22.00 Add to cartWhen John Muir traveled to California in 1868, he found the pristine mountain ranges that would inspire his life’s work. The Mountains of California is the culmination of the ten years Muir spent in t… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Muir, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 11 2001
- ISBN10: 0375758194
- Language: English
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Ravelings: Essays on Love, Loss, and Wonder
$21.95 Add to cartIn Ravelings, Lisa Knopp takes up an older, opposing meaning of the verb “ravel”–“to entangle”–as she explores the deaths and departures of loved ones and the rituals by which we mourn and honor the
- Series: American Lives
- Author: Knopp, Lisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 210
- Publish Date: March 01 2026
- ISBN10: 149624494X
- Language: English
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Love You, Bye: A Daughter’s Journey in Essays and Poems
$18.00 Add to cartA luminous collection of essays and poems about family, faith, and the art of saying goodbye from award-winning essayist, poet, and teacher Brenda Miller.
In Love You, Bye, award-winning author Brenda
- Author: Miller, Brenda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 07 2026
- ISBN10: 1558969756
- Language: English
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9.5 Theses on Art and Class
$19.00 Add to cart9.5 Theses on Art and Class seeks to show how a clear understanding of class makes sense of what is at stake in a broad number of contemporary art’s most persistent debates, from definitions of politi… [more below]
- Author: Davis, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 09 2013
- ISBN10: 1608462684
- Language: English
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Walden and on the Duty of Civil Disobedience (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)
$13.95 Add to cartHenry David Thoreau’s Walden details his experiences over the course of two years, two months, and two days in a cabin he built near Walden Pond amidst woodland owned by his friend and mentor Ralph Wa… [more below]
- Author: Thoreau, Henry David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 238
- Publish Date: November 25 2021
- ISBN10: 1957240024
- Language: English
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Jr – New York
$65.00 Add to cartJR, a globally renowned artist, transforms public spaces into universal galleries through large-scale participatory projects, cinematic collaborations, and striking installations, with this book highl… [more below]
- Author: Jr.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: January 06 2026
- ISBN10: 9791096575374
- Language: English
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American Elegy: Reflections on 250 Years of the Dis-United States of America
$19.95 Add to cartBefore there was the United States, there was America. The former is a country, a nation, a geographic reality, but the latter
is an idea. Invented more than discovered, “America” signified a revolutio- Author: Simon, Ed
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: June 02 2026
- ISBN10: 1632461803
- Language: English
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What Would Tequila Do?: The Playbook For Thriving Despite Corporate Bullshit. 52 Shots. No Filler.
$19.99 Add to cartYou started out weird. What happened?
You had opinions. You pushed back. You tried things that hadn’t been approved yet. Then the job happened. The reviews, the guardrails, the polite corrections. The
- Author: Campher, Henk
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: June 16 2026
- ISBN10: 9798996021222
- Language: English
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Baseball as a Road to God: Seeing Beyond the Game
$27.00 Add to cartThe president of New York University offers a love letter to America’s most beloved sport and a tribute to its underlying spirituality.
For more than a decade, John Sexton has taught a wildly popular- Author: Sexton, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 04 2014
- ISBN10: 1592408648
- Language: English
