Literary Collections
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Notes to John
$34.00 Add to cartAn extraordinary work from the author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Blue Nights
In November 1999, Joan Didion began seeing a psychiatrist because, as she wrote to a friend, her family had had “a- Author: Didion, Joan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 22 2025
- ISBN10: 9798217171064
- Language: English
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A Little Gaelic Kingdom
$20.00 Add to cart“A masterpiece of travel and topographical writing, and an incomparable and enthralling meditation on times past.”–John Banville
“He knows this world as no one else does, and writes about it with awe
- Series: Seedbank
- Author: Robinson, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: February 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1571313737
- Language: English
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Grand Finales: The Creative Longevity of Women Artists
$35.00 Add to cartIn 2008, academic and scholar Susan Gubar was told by a trusted oncologist that she had only a few years left to live. Though she outlived that dire prognosis, this brush with mortality refocused her
- Author: Gubar, Susan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 10 2025
- ISBN10: 1324065648
- Language: English
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El Pa?s de Las Mil Caras: Escritos Sobre El Per? / A Country of a Thousand Faces: Writings about Peru
$31.95 Add to cart«El Per? es para m? una especie de enfermedad incurable y mi relaci?n con ?l es intensa, ?spera, llena de la violencia que caracteriza a la pasi?n .
Las m?s de cinco d?cadas durante las que se… [more below]- Series: Obra Period?stica
- Author: Llosa, Mario Vargas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 832
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 8420460400
- Language: Spanish
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Japanese Proverbs: 200 Gems of Traditional Wit and Wisdom
$14.99 Add to cart“Destroy a nation, but its mountains and rivers remain.” — Japanese Proverb
This is a collection of 200 Japanese proverbs with illustrations and explanations for each saying. Japanese Proverbs: 200 G- Author: Galef, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 4805318821
- Language: English
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The Catastrophe Hour: Selected Essays
$18.95 Add to cartFrom the New York Times-bestselling author of The Unspeakable and The Problem with Everything comes a new collection of unputdownable essays.
“For the last five or six years, on many afternoons around- Author: Daum, Meghan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1912559684
- Language: English
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Good (Enough) Mother: Stories and Essays
$14.99 Add to cartA collection of honest and poignant essays and vignettes from acclaimed writer Ashley Fenker about her journey to motherhood against all medical odds, written for anyone who has ever wondered if their
- Author: Fenker, Ashley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 9798992383102
- Language: English
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Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life
$17.00 Add to cartIn her first memoir, award-winning novelist Yiyun Li offers a journey of recovery through literature: a letter from a writer to like-minded readers.
“A meditation on the fact that literature itself l- Author: Li, Yiyun
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 20 2018
- ISBN10: 0399589104
- Language: English
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Airstream Country: A Geologic Journey Across the American West
$19.95 Add to cartA herd of bison standing in the snow. Layered bluffs of multicolored sandstone. A silver Airstream trailer on a mountain highway. These are familiar sights for Neil Mathison and his wife, Susan. Newly
- Author: Mathison, Neil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0826367461
- Language: English
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The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos
$21.99 Add to cart*An NPR Science Friday Book Club Pick*
*A “Next Big Idea Book Club” Must Read*
*An Esquire Best Book of 2023*
*A Gizmodo New Release Pick for April*
*A BookRiot Science Book to Add to Your TBR*
*A Wired Bo… [more below]- Author: Green, Jaime
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1335008004
- Language: English
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Delusions and Grandeur: Dreamers of the New West
$21.95 Read moreIn these new and selected essays, Mark Sundeen recounts two decades of political activism, outdoor exploration, and empathetic curiosity. He was both witness to and active participant in pivotal cultu
- Author: Sundeen, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 18 2025
- ISBN10: 082636764X
- Language: English
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Fast Famous Women
$21.95 Add to cartWhat do Sylvia Plath, Mae West, Taylor Swift, Shirley Chisholm, Helen Keller, Sally Ride, Toni Morrison, Dolores Huerta, Lizzie Borden, Billie Jean King, and Eleanor of Aquitaine have in common? They’
- Author: Barreca, Gina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 196045627X
- Language: English
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An Axe for the Frozen Sea: Conversations with Poets about What Matters Most
$18.00 Add to cartDiscover the wisdom and wonder of poetry through candid conversations with some of the most powerful poets of the 21st century.
In this remarkable collection, Ben Palpant, author of Letters from The M- Author: Palpant, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: March 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1951872312
- Language: English
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On Book Banning: Or, How the New Censorship Consensus Trivializes Art and Undermines Democracy
$15.95 Add to cartThe freedom to read is under attack.
From the destruction of libraries in ancient Rome to today’s state-sponsored efforts to suppress LGBTQ+ literature, book bans arise from the impulse toward social c
- Series: Field Notes #9
- Author: Wells, Ira
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1771966637
- Language: English
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Edge of the World: An Anthology of Queer Travel Writing
$19.95 Add to cartAn inclusive LGBTQ+ travel anthology, Edge of the World explores what it means to be a queer person moving through the world.
These lively essays by luminary writers offer a queer perspective on how pe
- Author: Jones, Alden
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1958888516
- Language: English
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Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine: Reform, White Supremacy, and an Abolitionist Future
$27.99 Add to cartA powerful personal investigation of the insidious ways white supremacy compromises criminal justice reform, from the award-winning, formerly incarcerated activist and Soros Justice Fellow
Despite re
- Author: Deweaver, Emile Suotonye
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 1620977885
- Language: English
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We Have Ceased to See the Purpose: Essential Speeches of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
$28.00 Add to cartThis collection brings together ten of Nobel Prize-winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s most memorable and consequential speeches, delivered in the West and in Russia between 1972 and 1997.
Following his ex
- Series: Center for Ethics and Culture Solzhenitsyn
- Author: Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 268208581
- Language: English
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Crazy Salad and Scribble Scribble: Some Things About Women and Notes on Media
$21.00 Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of I Feel Bad About My Neck two classic collections of uproarious essays tackling everything from feminism to the media, from politics to beauty products, with her inimitab… [more below]
- Author: Ephron, Nora
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 16 2012
- ISBN10: 0345804740
- Language: English
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Thank You for Staying with Me: Essays
$21.95 Add to cartUrgent, meditative, and searching, Thank You for Staying with Me is a collection of essays that navigates the complexities of home, the vulnerability of being a woman, mother-daughter relationships, a… [more below]
- Series: American Lives
- Author: Moore, Bailey Gaylin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 226
- Publish Date: March 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1496241932
- Language: English
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Fugitive Tilts: Essays
$33.00 Add to cartIshion Hutchinson turns his poetic sensibility to questions of home, displacement, and memory in his beautiful and searingly brilliant prose debut.
In Fugitive Tilts, the poet Ishion Hutchinson turns- Author: Hutchinson, Ishion
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 0374600511
- Language: English
