Essays
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Radio Treason: The Trials of Lord Haw-Haw, the British Voice of Nazi Germany
$19.00 Add to cartThe gripping courtroom drama of a Brooklyn-born Englishman who became the voice of Nazi Germany, by “one of the most brilliant and erudite journalists of the century” (The New York Times).
In 1945, Th
- Author: West, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1946022802
- Language: English
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Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age
$30.00 Add to cartFrom the author of The Immortal King Rao, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, a personal exploration of how technology companies have both fulfilled and exploited the human desire for understanding and … [more below]
- Author: Vara, Vauhini
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 08 2025
- ISBN10: 0593701526
- Language: English
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The Golf 100: A Spirited Ranking of the Greatest Players of All Time
$30.00 Add to cartA rollicking ranking of the greatest golfers of all time, past and present, brimming with the intimate stories and perspective only a longtime golf writer like Michael Arkush can muster.
So, who’s the- Author: Arkush, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 0385549695
- Language: English
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Love Letter to a Garden
$20.00 Add to cartFrom an award-winning artist, designer, and the host of the podcast Design Matters, this book tells the visual story of falling in love with gardening–and the philosophies that work conjures.
Debbie- Author: Millman, Debbie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 156
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1643264982
- Language: English
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The Dad Rock That Made Me a Woman
$27.95 Add to cartA memoir-in-essays on transness, dad rock, and the music that saves us.
When Wilco’s 2007 album Sky Blue Sky was infamously criticized as “dad rock,” Niko Stratis was a twenty-five-year-old closeted t
- Series: American Music
- Author: Stratis, Niko
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1477331484
- Language: English
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Big Dumb Eyes: Stories from a Simpler Mind
$30.00 Add to cartOne of the hottest stand-ups working today, Nate Bargatze brings his everyman comedy to the page in this hilarious collection of personal stories, opinions, and confessions.
Nate Bargatze used to be- Author: Bargatze, Nate
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1538768461
- Language: English
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Blue Pastures
$19.99 Add to cart- Author: Oliver, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: January 09 2024
- ISBN10: 0156002159
- Language: English
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Feint of Heart: Art Writings: 1982-2002
$45.00 Read more“Dave Hickey’s writing is an atomic bomb of wild styling, brilliant insight, philosophical leaps of a visionary imagination, and astral projections of sixth-sense taste. A perfect combination of Billy… [more below]
- Author: Hickey, Dave
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1644231271
- Language: English
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Deep & Wild: On Mountains, Opossums & Finding Your Way in West Virginia
$19.95 Add to cartEssays chronicling the beauty and awe of Appalachia through the eyes of a lifelong West Virginian.
Winner of the 2023 Autumn House Nonfiction Prize, Deep & Wild is the debut essay collection of Laur- Series: Autumn House Press Nonfiction Prize
- Author: Jackson, Laura
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 196
- Publish Date: October 18 2024
- ISBN10: 1637680988
- Language: English
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I’ll Have What She’s Having
$34.00 Add to cartIn hilarious and tender essays, #1 New York Times bestselling author Chelsea Handler shares her unforgettable story of becoming the woman she always wanted to be.
There’s a woman I want to become, Ch- Author: Handler, Chelsea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 25 2025
- ISBN10: 9.79822E+12
- Language: English
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My Time Among the Whites: Notes from an Unfinished Education
$18.00 Add to cartFrom the author of Make Your Home Among Strangers, essays on being an “accidental” American–an incisive look at the edges of identity for a woman of color in a society centered on whiteness
In this s- Author: Crucet, Jennine Cap?
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 03 2019
- ISBN10: 1250299438
- Language: English
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Nights at the Red Steinway: Adventures in Jazz Piano, from the Wall Street Journal and Elsewhere
$34.95 Read moreThrough curated essays, readers will experience a deeply personal and engaging survey of key figures in jazz in the book that Publishers Weekly calls “a cheerful celebration of an uniquely American mu
- Author: Friedwald, Will
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1493084127
- Language: English
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Hope Is the Thing with Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds
$24.00 Add to cartA prizewinning poet and nature writer weaves together natural history, biology, sociology, and personal narrative to tell the story of the lives, habitats, and deaths of six extinct bird species.
Autho… [more below]
- Author: Cokinos, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 14 2009
- ISBN10: 1585427225
- Language: English
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In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing
$16.95 Read moreFour “pitch-perfect” (Oprah Daily) essays by the author of My Brilliant Friend and The Lost Daughter.
In these four crisp essays, Ferrante offers a rare look into the origins of her literary prowess. S
- Author: Ferrante, Elena
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1609458249
- Language: English
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Yoke and Feather
$17.95 Add to cartMay you braid back the hair of the girl who asks you to; may your lips brush other lips in an almost-kiss; when the chickens are gone, may you sow the coop in arugula; may the fogged-in mountain roads
- Author: Van Eerden, Jessie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 212
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 0984213368
- Language: English
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Around the World in Eighty Games: From Tarot to Tic-Tac-Toe, Catan to Chutes and Ladders, a Mathematician Unlocks the Secrets of the World’s Greatest
$19.99 Add to cartA “fun” and “unexpected” (The Economist) global tour of the world’s greatest games and the mathematics that underlies them
Where should you move first in Connect 4? What is the best property in Mono- Author: Du Sautoy, Marcus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1541606337
- Language: English
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Back Where I Came from: On Culture, Identity, and Home
$22.00 Add to cartIn this collection of personal essays, twenty-six writers from across North America share journeys back to their motherlands as visitors. Set against mountainous terrain, tropical beaches, bustling ci
- Series: Essais
- Author: Jaffer, Taslim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 214
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1771669179
- Language: English
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Milkweed and Honey Cake: A Memoir in Ritual Moments
$22.00 Add to cartIn Milkweed and Honey Cake: A Memoir in Ritual Moments, Wendy A. Horwitz shares stories about celebration, loss, change, and the best way to open a pomegranate.
Holidays delight – and disappoint. A cou
- Author: Horwitz, Wendy A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1684352304
- Language: English
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The View from Flyover Country: Dispatches from the Forgotten America
$19.99 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES and MIBA BESTSELLER
From the St. Louis-based journalist often credited with first predicting Donald Trump’s presidential victory. “A collection of sharp-edged, humanistic pieces about t- Author: Kendzior, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 17 2018
- ISBN10: 1250189993
- Language: English
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A Room of One’s Own: Introduction by Merve Emre
$27.00 Add to cartA Contemporary Classics hardcover edition of Virginia Woolf’s classic plea for a world in which women are free to use their gifts.
In this influential extended essay, Woolf outlines what women need in- Series: Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics
- Author: Woolf, Virginia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1101908505
- Language: English
