Essays
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I Dream of Joni: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell in 53 Snapshots
$29.99 Add to cartThe eternal singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell is seen anew, portrayed through a witty and comprehensive exploration of anecdotes, quotes, and lyrics by Henry Alford, “the most graceful of humorists” (Va… [more below]
- Author: Alford, Henry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1668019507
- Language: English
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A Room of One’s Own
$14.99 Add to cart- Author: Woolf, Virginia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1509843183
- Language: English
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You Didn’t Hear This from Me: (Mostly) True Notes on Gossip
$30.00 Add to cart“Gossip is the only cultural tradition I care about, and Kelsey McKinney has written its Bible” – Samantha Irby, #1 NYT bestselling author
A delightfully insightful exploration of our obsession with g- Author: McKinney, Kelsey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1538757400
- Language: English
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A Town Without Time: Gay Talese’s New York
$29.99 Add to cartFrom legendary journalist Gay Talese, a collection of his greatest reporting on New York City.
“Along with Joan Didion, Norman Mailer, Tom Wolfe and others, Mr. Talese has been acclaimed as a virtuoso
- Author: Talese, Gay
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: December 03 2024
- ISBN10: 0063392186
- Language: English
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Y2K: How the 2000s Became Everything (Essays on the Future That Never Was)
$29.99 Add to cartPerfect for fans of Jia Tolentino and Chuck Klosterman, Y2K is a delightfully nostalgic and bitingly told exploration about how the early 2000s forever changed us and the world we live in.
THE EARLY 20
- Author: Shade, Colette
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 0063333945
- Language: English
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The Harder I Fight the More I Love You: A Memoir
$30.00 Add to cartFrom a beloved Grammy-nominated musician, a “heartbreaking and funny” memoir of a poverty-stricken childhood, obsessive desires, and indispensable friendships that reflects on the way art and music an
- Author: Case, Neko
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1538710501
- Language: English
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A Bestiary
$16.00 Add to cartLiterary Nonfiction. Essays. Winner of the 2015 Essay Collection Competition, Selected by Wayne Koestenbaum.
Rarely have I come across tenderness, venom, and fire held so intimately, so exquisitely, a… [more below]
- Author: Hoang, Lily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 156
- Publish Date: April 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0996316744
- Language: English
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Woodswoman II
$16.95 Add to cartAnne LaBastille found peace and solitude in the log cabin she built for herself at Black Bear Lake. But as the years passed, the outside world intruded in various ways: curious fans, after reading her
- Author: Labastille, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 17 2000
- ISBN10: 0393320596
- Language: English
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The Green Imperative: Ecology and Ethics in Design and Architecture
$16.95 Add to cartWhether it’s horror at the plastic littering the world’s beaches or despair at the melting polar ice caps, the world is gradually waking up to the impending climate disaster. In The Green Imperative,
- Author: Papanek, Victor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0500296197
- Language: English
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Christian Reflections
$17.99 Add to cartShortly after his conversion in 1929, C. S. Lewis wrote to a friend, “When all is said (and truly said) about the divisions of Christendom, there remains, by God’s mercy, an enormous common ground.” F… [more below]
- Author: Lewis, C. S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 233
- Publish Date: October 22 2014
- ISBN10: 0802871844
- Language: English
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Ayoade on Ayoade: A Cinematic Odyssey
$16.95 Read moreIn this book Richard Ayoade — actor, writer, director, and amateur dentist — reflects on his cinematic legacy as only he can: in conversation with himself. Over ten brilliantly insightful and often … [more below]
- Author: Ayoade, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 13 2016
- ISBN10: 0571316530
- Language: English
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Memory Serves: Oratories
$24.95 Add to cartWinner of the Non-Fiction Book of the Year Award at the 2016 Alberta Book Publishing Awards!
Memory Serves gathers together the oratories award-winning author Lee Maracle has delivered and performed ov
- Series: Writer as Critic #13
- Author: Maracle, Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 15 2015
- ISBN10: 1926455444
- Language: English
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The Solzhenitsyn Reader: New and Essential Writings, 1947-2005
$35.00 Add to cartThis reader, compiled by renowned Solzhenitsyn scholars Edward E. Ericson, Jr., and Daniel J. Mahoney in collaboration with the Solzhenitsyn family, provides in one volume a rich and representative se… [more below]
- Author: Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 679
- Publish Date: January 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1935191551
- Language: English
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The Revolt of the Masses
$15.95 Read moreSocial upheaval in early 20th-century Europe is the historical setting for this seminal study by the Spanish philosopher, Jos Ortega y Gasset. Continuously in print since 1932, Ortega’s vision of Wes… [more below]
- Author: Ortega Y. Gasset, José
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 17 1994
- ISBN10: 0393310957
- Language: English
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This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America
$17.99 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
One of The Roots’ 28 Brilliant Books by Black Authors in 2018
“A writer to be reckoned with.” –Roxane Gay
Named one of the Most Anticipated Books of 2018 by Esquire, Elle, Vo
- Author: Jerkins, Morgan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 30 2018
- ISBN10: 0062666150
- Language: English
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Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises (and Essays)
$15.95 Add to cartNational Book Award Longlist Winner of the Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction Winner of the Foreword INDIE Editor’s Choice Prize for Nonfiction
“Rebecca Solnit is essential feminist reading.” —The New Repu… [more below]- Author: Solnit, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 166
- Publish Date: September 04 2018
- ISBN10: 1608469468
- Language: English
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Nonwhite and Woman: 131 Micro Essays on Being in the World
$21.95 Add to cartNonwhite and Woman celebrates how women of color live and thrive in the world, and how they make their lives their own. The anthology’s title is from Lucille Clifton’s luminous poem, “won’t you celebr… [more below]
- Series: Flash Nonfiction
- Author: Gee, Darien Hsu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 354
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1949116697
- Language: English
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The Trees in My Forest
$19.99 Add to cartWinner of the
New England Book Award Best
Nonfiction Award
and the Franklin Fairbanks
Award of the Fairbanks MuseumIn a book destined to become a classic, biologist and acclaimed nature writer Bernd
- Author: Heinrich, Bernd
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 09 1998
- ISBN10: 0060929421
- Language: English
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Notes on the Landscape of Home
$22.95 Read more“If you pay attention to the land where you live, you enter into conversation with it, until it becomes a voice inside you, and some of the boundaries between you and it dissolve,” write Susan Hand Sh
- Author: Shetterly, Susan Hand
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: September 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1684750296
- Language: English
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Black and Buddhist: What Buddhism Can Teach Us about Race, Resilience, Transformation, and Freedom
$19.95 Read moreGold Nautilus Book Award Winner
Leading African American Buddhist teachers offer lessons on racism, resilience, spiritual freedom, and the possibility of a truly representative American Buddhism. With- Author: Giles, Cheryl A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 08 2020
- ISBN10: 1611808650
- Language: English
