Essays
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Foxes for Everybody: Twenty-Four Hours of Early Motherhood
$22.00 Add to cartMeditations on time, motherhood, and the ordinary beauty of everyday life
Like a newborn’s patterns of sleeping and waking, the revelations of motherhood don’t follow a reasonable schedule, and there- Author: Pierce, Catherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: January 15 2026
- ISBN10: 0810149532
- Language: English
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Attention: Writing on Life, Art, and the World
$29.99 Read moreFor thirty years Anne Enright–one of our greatest living novelists (Times)–has been paying attention: casting her lucid and distinctive gaze across the world, literature, and her own life, and gifti
- Author: Enright, Anne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 07 2026
- ISBN10: 132412413X
- Language: English
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Famesick: A Memoir
$32.00 Read moreIn this rowdy, frank reflection on illness, fame, sex, and everything in between, the remarkable mind behind the hit series Girls and the bestselling author of Not That Kind of Girl asks whether fulfi… [more below]
- Author: Dunham, Lena
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 14 2026
- ISBN10: 0593129326
- Language: English
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Where Are the Horses?: A Canter Through COVID-19
$15.95 Add to cartAmidst the pandemic’s devastation and political unrest, these short essays and lyrics offer a raw exploration of daily fears and emotions. As the narrative unfolds, the reader is transported to the wa
- Author: Scagliola, James Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 124
- Publish Date: November 08 2025
- ISBN10: 9798896175971
- Language: English
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Good Bones: Glorious Relics from the Age of Reading
$18.00 Add to cartThe heyday of reading is probably behind us, but in these shrewd and witty essays Brooke Allen examines the relics of the saints (and sinners) who made it what it was. Focused as much on literary live
- Author: Allen, Brooke
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 262
- Publish Date: November 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1966218125
- Language: English
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Field Notes: The Grace Note of the Canyon Wren
$18.00 Add to cartIn this collection of twelve stories, Barry Lopez–the National Book Award-winning author of Arctic Dreams and one of our most admired writers–evokes the longing we feel for beauty in our relationshi… [more below]
- Author: Lopez, Barry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 08 2004
- ISBN10: 1400075122
- Language: English
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For Marx
$29.95 Add to cartThis is the work in which Louis Althusser formulated some of his most influential ideas. For Marx, first published in France in 1968, has come to be regarded as the founding text of the school of “str… [more below]
- Series: Radical Thinkers
- Author: Althusser, Louis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 17 2006
- ISBN10: 184467052X
- Language: English
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Someone Like Me: An Anthology of Non-Fiction by Autistic Writers
$22.99 Read moreIn Someone Like Me, editors Clem Bastow and Jo Case showcase the wide-ranging experiences of Autistic gender-diverse and women writers – and explode long-held stereotypes. BIPOC and white gender minor… [more below]
- Author: Bastow, Clem
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 13 2026
- ISBN10: 0857309269
- Language: English
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Hey Yang, Where’s My Thousand Bucks?: And Other True Stories of Staggering Depth
$26.95 Add to cartIN THIS FRANK, OFTEN HILARIOUS COLLECTION OF TRUE STORIES, political trailblazer Andrew Yang examines America’s breakdown through the lens of his unexpected journey from entrepreneur to presidential
- Author: Yang, Andrew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 1636142796
- Language: English
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Alphapussy: How I Survived the Valley and Learned to Love My Boobs
$26.95 Add to cartFrom a wayward California girl growing up in the heart of the porn-born San Fernando Valley, Gina Gershon found herself on a journey that has been anything but traditional. Along the way, she had to l
- Author: Gershon, Gina
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 03 2026
- ISBN10: 1636142818
- Language: English
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In Trees: An Exploration
$30.00 Read moreFrom the acclaimed author of the New York Times bestseller On Trails comes a wondrous new journey through the wilds of nature and the gnarls of history, exploring how trees—from the mightiest sequoia… [more below]
- Author: Moor, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 07 2026
- ISBN10: 1476739250
- Language: English
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Where It Hurts: Dispatches from the Emotional Frontlines of Medicine
$18.95 Read moreIn Where It Hurts, more than 60 doctors, nurses, therapists, EMTs, patient advocates, and other medical professionals offer a window into the space between health and illness, life and death as they s
- Author: Bulseco, Donna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 24 2026
- ISBN10: 9798893031041
- Language: English
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Dead Weight: Essays on Hunger and Harm
$18.00 Add to cartA personal and cultural look at the dark underbelly of Western beauty standards and the lethal culture of disordered eating they’ve wrought
“An authoritative, generous, and persuasive debut that I wi- Author: Clein, Emmeline
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0593471008
- Language: English
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The Early History of Rome: Books I-V of the History of Rome from Its Foundation
$17.00 Add to cartWith stylistic brilliance and historical imagination, the first five books of Livy’s monumental history of Rome record events from the foundation of Rome through the history of the seven kings, the es… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Livy, Titus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: June 25 2002
- ISBN10: 0140448098
- Language: English
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100 Mistakes That Changed History: Backfires and Blunders That Collapsed Empires, Crashed Economies, and Altered the Course of Our World
$30.00 Add to cartCollected in one volume, here are backfires and blunders that collapsed empires, crashed economies, and altered the course of the world.
From the Maginot Line to the Cuban Missile Crisis, history i- Author: Fawcett, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 05 2010
- ISBN10: 042523665X
- Language: English
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On Booze
$15.95 Add to cart“First you take a drink,” F. Scott Fitzgerald once noted, “then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.” Fitzgerald wrote alcohol into almost every one of his stories. On Booze gathers debu… [more below]
- Author: Fitzgerald, F. Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: March 03 2026
- ISBN10: 0811239942
- Language: English
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The Franchise: Philadelphia Eagles
$20.00 Add to cartIn The Franchise: Philadelphia Eagles, take a more profound and unique journey into the history of an iconic team.
This thoughtful and engaging collection of essays captures the astute fans’ history- Series: The Franchise
- Author: Berman, Zach
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1637278519
- Language: English
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Incompleteness: New and Selected Essays, 1999 – 2023
$22.95 Add to cartEssays on everything from the music of Joni Mitchell to the declining quality of Bengali food from one of India’s preeminent writers.
“I’m an Indian, so of course I write about India. But then, again,- Author: Chaudhuri, Amit
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: January 06 2026
- ISBN10: 1681379651
- Language: English
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Bioleninism
$14.99 Add to cartBioleninism, by Spandrell, covers the essential essays that develop and explain the theory behind the emergent blend of Leninism and biological disadvantages. As Lenin and the communists rallied the d
- Series: Wmlc Pamphlets #1
- Author: Spandrell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 118
- Publish Date: March 17 2025
- ISBN10: 9798218632434
- Language: English
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What Is Happiness?: A Monk’s Guide to a Happy Life
$24.99 Add to cartThis timely meditation on taking ownership of our own happiness distills the wisdom of one of the world’s most revered monks and teachers into a conversational, approachable guide to understanding our… [more below]
- Author: Sunim, Pomnyun
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 20 2026
- ISBN10: 9798881605643
- Language: English
