Essays
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Creature Needs: Writers Respond to the Science of Animal Conservation
$19.95 Add to cartA kaleidoscopic literary exploration of extinction and conservation, inspired by the latest scientific research
Creature Needs is a polyvocal call to arms about animal extinction and habitat loss that- Author: Kondrich, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: January 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1517918316
- Language: English
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Low: Notes on Art & Trash
$17.95 Add to cartRaised in a rural Oregon town plagued by poverty, the artist and writer Jaydra Johnson excelled in school and chased upward mobility, desperate to escape the adversity that she saw as her inheritance-
- Author: Johnson, Jaydra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 9798987589076
- Language: English
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Prose to the People: A Celebration of Black Bookstores
$26.99 Add to cartA stunning visual homage to Black bookstores around the country along with profiles and essays that celebrate the history, community, activism, and culture these spaces embody, featuring an original f… [more below]
- Author: Mitchell, Katie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 08 2025
- ISBN10: 0593581342
- Language: English
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No Less Strange or Wonderful: Essays
$28.95 Add to cartCelebrated author and artist A. Kendra Greene’s No Less Strange or Wonderful is a brilliant and generous meditation–on the complex wonder of being alive, on how to pay attention to even the tiniest (… [more below]
- Author: Greene, A. Kendra
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1963108086
- Language: English
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Inner Workings: Literary Essays 2000-2005
$27.00 Add to cartJ.M. Coetzee’s latest novel, The Schooldays of Jesus, is now available from Viking. Late Essays: 2006-2016 will be available January 2018.
In addition to being one of the most acclaimed and accomplis- Author: Coetzee, J. M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 01 2008
- ISBN10: 014311378X
- Language: English
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A Black Girl in the Middle: Essays on (Allegedly) Figuring It All Out
$16.95 Add to cartA 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0807016063
- Language: English
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Wondermental
$18.00 Add to cartBeing old and getting old all at the same time.
An amalgam of moments and an accumulation of fragments.
Birdsong, coyotes howling, tornado warnings instead of honking,
bodega vibes and subway stops –
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- Author: Vassilakis, Nico
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: December 03 2024
- ISBN10: 9.79899E+12
- Language: English
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Songs on Endless Repeat: Essays and Outtakes
$16.99 Add to cartA Most Anticipated Book of 2023 from: LA Times * Boston Globe * The Millions * LitHub * Shondaland
By the New York Times bestselling author of the award-winning AFTERPARTIES comes a collection like no
- Author: So, Anthony Veasna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 03 2024
- ISBN10: 0063049945
- Language: English
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Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words
$22.00 Add to cartWith the imagery of a poet and the reflection of a philosopher, David Whyte turns his attention to 52 ordinary words, each its own particular doorway into the underlying currents of human life. Beginn… [more below]
- Author: Whyte, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: December 01 2014
- ISBN10: 1932887342
- Language: English
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Spellbound: My Life as a Dyslexic Wordsmith
$28.99 Add to cartThe A-list comedian tells the story of his unlikely path to success while struggling with severe dyslexia.
When Phil Hanley entered first grade, he realized something that would forever set him apart- Author: Hanley, Phil
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1250860156
- Language: English
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Race Stories: Essays on the Power of Images
$39.95 Add to cartThe first title in Aperture’s Vision & Justice Book Series–featuring a collection of award-winning short essays by Maurice Berger that explore the intersections of photography, race, and visual cultu… [more below]
- Series: Vision & Justice
- Author: Berger, Maurice
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: December 17 2024
- ISBN10: 1597115622
- Language: English
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Good Soil: The Education of an Accidental Farmhand
$26.00 Add to cartA profound meditation on nature, heritage, and belonging, from an accomplished journalist who left New York City for life on a working farm
“I needed this book. I think you need it, too.”–Maggie Smit- Author: Chu, Jeff
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 0593727363
- Language: English
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Frontier
$85.00 Read moreIn Anouk Masson Krantz’s most expansive work to date, she travels tens of thousands of miles across the Americas, broadening her focus from the United States to both American continents. In her exquis… [more below]
- Author: Masson Krantz, Anouk
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: November 04 2024
- ISBN10: 1864709812
- Language: English
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Here’s What I Need You to Know: Essays on Marriage, Motherhood, and the Mundane
$26.95 Add to cartMany women have been there: juggling motherhood, a job, volunteer work, and chauffeuring kids to school and sports practices (a job in itself); it’s enough to send anyone running for the hills. In Her… [more below]
- Author: Franklin, Shari
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 188
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 1957723327
- Language: English
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Happy to Help: Adventures of a People Pleaser
$29.00 Add to cartA Brit&Co Most Anticipated Books of 2025
Amy Wilson, co-host of the award-winning podcast What Fresh Hell, takes a funny and insightful look at how women are conditioned to be “happy to help”–and wha
- Author: Wilson, Amy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1958506796
- Language: English
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Holding the Note: Profiles in Popular Music
$19.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER – The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and editor of The New Yorker gathers his writing on some of the essential musicians of our time–intimate portraits of Leonard Cohen,… [more below]
- Author: Remnick, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 30 2024
- ISBN10: 0375702318
- Language: English
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Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers
$17.00 Add to cartNow with an original introduction by David Brooks, Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers is a funny and irreverent study of class and status by the master of New Journalism.
Tom Wolfe’s two-ac- Author: Wolfe, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 27 2024
- ISBN10: 1250321883
- Language: English
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I’ll Love You Forever: Notes from a K-Pop Fan
$28.99 Add to cartJia Tolentino’s Trick Mirror meets Cathy Park Hong’s Minor Feelings in a meditation that blends memoir and cultural criticism to explore how the author’s love affair with K-pop has shaped her sense of
- Author: Kwon, Giaae
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1250886236
- Language: English
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The Lies of the Artists: Essays on Italian Art, 1450-1750
$39.95 Add to cartLuminous essays on artists of the Italian Renaissance by one of our most inspired writers on the history and making of art.
In the three centuries from 1450 to 1750 painters, sculptors, and architects
- Author: Rowland, Ingrid D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: December 17 2024
- ISBN10: 0262549093
- Language: English
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In My Remaining Years
$29.99 Add to cartA collection of darkly humorous, intensely personal essays by cult fave and multi-hyphenate artist Jean Grae
In My Remaining Years, by creative juggernaut Jean Grae, debunks the myth that coming-of-ag- Author: Grae, Jean
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1250857538
- Language: English
