Essays
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Magic Art
$95.00 Add to cartBreton’s late treatise on magic and art appears for the first time in English, complete with citations, commentaries and a bibliography
What is “Magic Art”? In 1953, Andr? Breton, founder of the Surrea
- Author: Breton, Andre
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 350
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1399971182
- 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
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Good Game, No Rematch: A Life Made of Video Games
$28.00 Add to cartA hilarious, heartfelt and nostalgic memoir about the classic video games that entertain and inspire us, and even hold the power to transform our lives, from an Emmy(R)-nominated television writer, st… [more below]
- Author: Drucker, Mike
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1335012699
- Language: English
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Pronoun Trouble: The Story of Us in Seven Little Words
$28.00 Add to cartWith his trademark humor and flair, bestselling linguist John McWhorter busts the myths and shares the history of the most controversial language topic of our times: pronouns
The nature of language is- Author: McWhorter, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 0593713281
- Language: English
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Saul Goodman V. Jimmy McGill: The Complete Critical Companion to Better Call Saul
$30.00 Add to cartThe complete critical companion to AMC’s Emmy- and Golden Globe-nominated series Better Call Saul from the author of Breaking Bad 101 and The Sopranos Sessions
“If you love Better Call Saul this book- Author: Sepinwall, Alan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 141977719X
- Language: English
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Slither: How Nature’s Most Maligned Creatures Illuminate Our World
$30.00 Add to cartA spellbinding scientific and cultural study of snakes, the fascination and fear they inspire, and how surprising new science is indelibly changing our perception of these stunning and frightening cre
- Author: Hall, Stephen S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 22 2025
- ISBN10: 1538741334
- Language: English
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A Passing West: Essays from the Borderlands
$24.95 Read moreA unique, unmistakable voice in American fiction, Dagoberto Gilb is also a singular writer of personal and journalistic essays. In A Passing West he casts a penetrating gaze upon the culture and histo
- Author: Gilb, Dagoberto
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 0826366821
- Language: English
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Letters from a Stoic
$9.99 Add to cartHarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.
No man can live a happy life, or even a supportable life, without the study of wisdom
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4
- Series: Collins Classics
- Author: Seneca, Lucius Annaeus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 12 2021
- ISBN10: 0008425043
- Language: English
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The Snarling Girl and Other Essays
$28.95 Add to cartIn sixteen essays published over the past decade, acclaimed novelist Elisa Albert considers everything from the creative process to reproductive justice, ambition to Ani DiFranco, Judaism to the ethos
- Author: Albert, Elisa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 194
- Publish Date: August 27 2024
- ISBN10: 1960988069
- Language: English
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Stories from the Trail: Field Notes on Moving through the Wild
$20.00 Add to cartAn Anthology Edited by Heidi Barr and Connor Wolfe. Featuring Essays from: Chris La Tray, Ana Maria Spagna, Stephen Trimble, Heidi Barr, Iris Graville, Derick Lugo, Holly Scherer, Abby Braithwaite, Me
- Author: Barr, Heidi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 118
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1956368868
- Language: English
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Brown Women Have Everything: Essays on (Dis)comfort and Delight
$22.00 Add to cartAs a child growing up in New Delhi, Sayantani Dasgupta wanted to go on adventures involving shipwrecks and treasure chests. Her parents wanted her to stay in school instead. She satisfied her curiosit… [more below]
- Author: Dasgupta, Sayantani
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 180
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1469681773
- Language: English
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The Detective in the Dooryard: Reflections of a Maine Cop
$19.95 Add to cartTim Cotton has been a police officer for more than thirty years. The writer in him has always been drawn to the stories of the people he has met along the way. Dealing with the standard issue ne’er-do… [more below]
- Author: Cotton, Timothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: October 15 2023
- ISBN10: 168475111X
- Language: English
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The Teachings of a Stoic: Selected Discourses and the Encheiridion
$4.99 Read moreHarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.
The discourses of the great Stoic philosopher Epictetus are regarded as some of the most influential teachings
- Series: Collins Classics
- Author: Epictetus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 02 2024
- ISBN10: 0008619913
- Language: English
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Global Ikat: Roots and Routes of a Textile Technique
$50.00 Read more- This is the first time all the different iterations of this textile have been comprehensively brought together in one volume, drawing from the wide-ranging collection of David Paly
- It is a journey acro
- Author: Crill, Rosemary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1898113904
- Language: English
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The Big Year: A Tale of Man, Nature, and Fowl Obsession
$18.99 Add to cartEvery January 1, a quirky crowd storms out across North America for a spectacularly competitive event called a Big Year–a grand, expensive, and occasionally vicious 365-day marathon of birdwatching. … [more below]
- Author: Obmascik, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 27 2011
- ISBN10: 145164860X
- Language: English
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The Thin Places
$22.00 Add to cartIn Irish Celtic lore, “”thin places”” are those locales where the veil between this world and the otherworld is porous, where there is mystery in the landscape. The earth takes on the hue of the sacre… [more below]
- Author: Koch, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 172
- Publish Date: October 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1532639821
- Language: English
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This Is Major: Notes on Diana Ross, Dark Girls, and Being Dope
$17.99 Add to cartA National Book Critics Circle Finalist in Autobiography * Finalist for a Lambda Literary Award * Named one of the most anticipated books of the year by USA Today, Bitch Magazine, Parade, Salon and Ms
- Author: Lawson, Shayla
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 30 2020
- ISBN10: 006289059X
- Language: English
