Literary Collections
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A Kiss for the Absolute: Selected Poems of Shuzo Takiguchi
$19.95 Add to cartThe first book of poems by the great Japanese surrealist to be published in English
In 1923, Shuzo Takiguchi’s first year at Tokyo’s Keio University was cut short by the Great Kanto Earthquake, which- Series: Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation #156
- Author: Takiguchi, Shuzo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 218
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 0691263884
- Language: English
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I Know What the Red Clay Looks Like: The Voice and Vision of Black Women Writers (Expanded and Revised Edition)
$24.95 Add to cartThirty years after its original publication, this newly imagined edition brings the work and musings of fifteen Black literary luminaries in conversation with a new generation of writers and readers.
… [more below]- Author: Carroll, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: December 03 2024
- ISBN10: 9798888902547
- Language: English
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Gods and Mortals: Ancient Greek Myths for Modern Readers
$24.95 Add to cartAn entrancing new telling of ancient Greek myths
“This book is a triumph! . . . [A] magnificent retelling of the Greek myths.”–Alexander McCall Smith, author of the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency ser- Author: Johnston, Sarah Iles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 0691239878
- Language: English
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An Enemy of the People
$6.99 Add to cartDr. Thomas Stockmann’s personal and professional life is attacked after he declares a town’s water supply is contaminated, which threatens the success of their economy. Ibsen tackles the corruption of
- Series: Mint Editions (Plays)
- Author: Ibsen, Henrik
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 94
- Publish Date: February 16 2021
- ISBN10: 1513279424
- Language: English
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They That Be Wise
$16.99 Add to cartOn the way to his father’s funeral, Jesse Hunter feels anxious and afraid, and just as alienated as he felt during his teenage years. Drifting back to the memory of his youth, he reflects on one speci
- Author: Boggs, David D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 364
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1665308990
- Language: English
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My Life with Bob: Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues
$19.99 Add to cartPeople Pick – O Magazine Title to Pick Up Now – Vanity Fair Hot Type – Glamour New Book You’re Guaranteed to Love This Summer – LitHub.com Best Book about Books – Buzzfeed Book You Need to Read This S
- Author: Paul, Pamela
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1250182549
- Language: English
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The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts: The True Story of the Bondwoman’s Narrative
$20.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE LA TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY
AMERICAN BOOK AWARD WINNER
FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR BIOGRAPHY
A groundbreaking study of the first Black female novelist and
- Author: Hecimovich, Gregg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 0062334743
- Language: English
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We Are Animals: On the Nature and Politics of Motherhood
$19.95 Add to cartWhen Jennifer Case became pregnant unexpectedly with her second child, she was overwhelmed at the prospect of caring for another child in a society with high expectations and low support for mothers.
- Author: Case, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 1595343016
- Language: English
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A Diary of War & Theatre: Making Theatre in Kyiv, Spring 2024
$14.49 Add to cartIn the midst of war, spending nine weeks directing his play, Conversations in Tusculum, in Kyiv, Ukraine, American playwright and director Richard Nelson kept a diary. Here the mundane, the artistic,
- Author: Nelson, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 178
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1399991965
- Language: English
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Wave of Blood
$16.00 Add to cartWrestling with the mind of war, at times shocking in its self-analysis, WAVE OF BLOOD is a furious, strange and sincere essay, an eclipse notebook, a family chronicle, all told in the poetry of witnes… [more below]
- Author: Reines, Ariana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: January 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1739516141
- Language: English
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Love Letters from Heartbreak Ridge
$17.95 Add to cartFor more than seventy years, a tattered box tied with lace ribbon, yellowed with age, had been tucked away, untouched and unknown to anyone but the long-deceased recipient and owner of that box my mot
- Author: Romero, Kathy Poulsen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: November 11 2024
- ISBN10: 9798894540177
- Language: English
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Beyond The Surface – New
$12.99 Add to cartTitle: Beyond the Surface
- Author: Okoyo, Ebosetae Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 110
- Publish Date: October 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1068912804
- Language: English
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The Picture Not Taken: On Life and Photography
$18.95 Add to cartAn ecologically minded collection of essays in the vein of Rebecca Solnit and Susan Sontag, covering everything from the equipment of photography to the difficulties of perception itself.
In The Pictu- Author: Swett, Benjamin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 1681378639
- Language: English
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Notes from the Porch: Tiny True Stories to Make You Feel Better about the World
$14.99 Add to cartSilver Winner, Inspirational, 2025 IBPA Book Award
Silver Winner, Creative Nonfiction, 2024 IPNE Award
From the author of the international bestseller The Headmaster’s Wife and other novels comes a coll
- Author: Greene, Thomas Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 142
- Publish Date: September 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1578691796
- Language: English
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Constant Reader: The New Yorker Columns 1927-28
$19.00 Add to cartDorothy Parker’s complete weekly New Yorker column about books and people and the rigors of reviewing.
When, in 1927, Dorothy Parker became a book critic for the New Yorker, she was already a legendar
- Author: Parker, Dorothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1961341255
- Language: English
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The Passenger: Naples
$22.00 Add to cartFully-illustrated, The Passenger collects the best new writing, photography, art and reportage from around the world.
IN THIS VOLUME: Paolo Macry on Naples’ “monarch mayors”・Francesco Abazia on
- Series: Passenger
- Author: VV Aa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1787705315
- Language: English
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A Black Girl in the Middle: Essays on (Allegedly) Figuring It All Out
$24.95 Read moreA 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 0807007986
- Language: English
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Dancing on My Own: Essays on Art, Collectivity, and Joy
$27.99 Add to cartA Literary Hub Most Noteworthy Nonfiction Book of 2024 – A Brooklyn Rail Best Art Book of 2024 – A The Millions and Hyperallergic Most Anticipated Book of 2024 – A Publishers Weekly Summer Reads Pick
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- Author: Wu, Simon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 25 2024
- ISBN10: 006331620X
- Language: English
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Elsie’s Tune: One Last Song to Overcome
$21.99 Add to cart“She took the record out and put it on. As it started to play, she simply didn’t know if good memories would come back. Maybe bad memories would overtake them. Whichever way she felt, she just knew th
- Author: Watson, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 334
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 9798890410399
- Language: English
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On the Couch: Writers Analyze Sigmund Freud
$29.95 Add to cartA collection of colorful and candid essays and other pieces about Freud and his legacy today, featuring twenty-five leading writers
With original contributions by Andr? Aciman – Sarah Boxer – Jennifer- Author: Blauner, Andrew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 0691242437
- Language: English
