Literary Collections
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Mistaken for an Empire: A Memoir in Tongues
$21.95 Read more“As an adult, [Imperial] attempted what no one else had done: translating [‘The White Man’s Burden’] into Tagalog. These efforts led Imperial to reflect on her many (often disorienting) moves between … [more below]
- Series: 21st Century Essays
- Author: Imperial, Christine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0814258638
- Language: English
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Granta 164: Last Notes
$19.99 Read moreGranta’s summer issue will be themed around sound, music, silence and war. From established voices to debut novelists, Britain’s most prestigious literary magazine brings you the best new writing from
- Author: Rausing, Sigrid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1909889571
- Language: English
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Lost in Summerland: Essays
$17.95 Read moreBarrett Swanson embarks on a personal quest across the United States to uncover what it means to be an American amid the swirl of our post-truth climate in this collection of critically acclaimed essa… [more below]
- Author: Swanson, Barrett
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1640095322
- Language: English
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Choice Words: Writers on Abortion
$28.95 Read moreA landmark literary anthology of poems, stories, and essays, Choice Words collects essential voices that renew our courage in the struggle to defend reproductive rights. Twenty years in the making, th
- Author: Finch, Annie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 420
- Publish Date: April 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1642591483
- Language: English
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On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint
$27.00 Read moreNamed a Most Anticipated/Best Book of the Month by: NPR * USA Today * Time * Washington Post * Vulture * Women’s Wear Daily * Bustle * LitHub * The Millions * Vogue * Nylon * Shondaland * Chicago Revi
- Author: Nelson, Maggie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1644450623
- Language: English
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The Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde: An Annotated Selection
$29.95 Read moreAn authoritative edition of Oscar Wilde’s critical writings shows how the renowned dramatist and novelist also transformed the art of commentary.
Though he is primarily acclaimed today for his drama a- Author: Wilde, Oscar
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 13 2022
- ISBN10: 0674271823
- Language: English
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Chronicles of Transformation: A Spiritual Journey with C. S. Lewis
$17.95 Read moreIn a world grown cold without wonder, how do we reimagine the drama and joy of Christianity? For C. S. Lewis, the answer was to invite us into Narnia, a new world that would help us see our own with f
- Author: Delorenzo, Leonard J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 251
- Publish Date: August 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1621645355
- Language: English
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Politics
$12.00 Read moreIntellectually stimulating work describes the ideal state and ponders how it can bring about the most desirable life for its citizens. Famed Jowett translation of Aristotle’s masterwork.
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Aristotle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 15 2000
- ISBN10: 0486414248
- Language: English
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Apples on a Windowsill
$20.95 Read moreApples on a Windowsill is a series of meditations on still life, photography, beauty, and marriage. Full of personal reflections, charming anecdotes, and the history behind the art of still lifes, thi
- Author: Lemay, Shawna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: January 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1990293662
- Language: English
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Beyond Shattered Glass: Voices from the Aftermath of the Beirut Explosion
$20.00 Read more- Author: Saab, Zeina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 198
- Publish Date: August 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1623717477
- Language: English
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Gesar: Tantric Practices of the Tibetan Warrior King
$29.95 Read moreGesar of Ling is well known in Tibetan history, literature, and folklore. But, for Buddhist practitioners, he is an enlightened tantric protector and deity–an emanation of Padmasambhava. Engaging in … [more below]
- Author: Mipham, Jamgon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 29 2023
- ISBN10: 1611809150
- Language: English
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Lonely Planet a Moveable Feast
$14.99 Read moreLonely Planet: The world’s leading travel guide publisher*
Life-changing food adventures around the world.
From bat on the island of Fais to chicken on a Russian train to barbecue in the American heartl
- Series: Lonely Planet Travel Literature
- Author: Planet, Lonely
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 15 2016
- ISBN10: 1786572095
- Language: English
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On Reading
$12.95 Read more“To understand a profound thought is to have, at the moment one understands it, a profound thought oneself; and this demands some effort, a genuine descent to the heart of oneself . . . Only desire an… [more below]
- Series: On
- Author: Proust, Marcel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: September 01 2011
- ISBN10: 1843916169
- Language: English
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China Root: Taoism, Ch’an, and Original Zen
$21.95 Read moreA beautifully compelling and liberating guide to the original nature of Zen in ancient China by renowned author and translator David Hinton.
Buddhism migrated from India to China in the first century- Author: Hinton, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 29 2020
- ISBN10: 1611807131
- Language: English
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Leavetakings: Essays
$20.95 Add to cartLeavetaking is an Alaska-based essay collection propelled by movements of departure and return. Corinna Cook asks: What can coming and going reveal about place? About how a place calls to us? About he… [more below]
- Series: Alaska Literary
- Author: Cook, Corinna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 150
- Publish Date: November 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1602234248
- Language: English
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The Complete Memoirs: Expanded Edition
$22.00 Read moreThe classic memoir of the Nobel Prize-winning poet, now expanded with newly discovered material
Southern Chile was an open frontier when the beloved poet Pablo Neruda was born there in 1904. A motherl- Author: Neruda, Pablo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: June 22 2021
- ISBN10: 0374538123
- Language: English
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See/Saw: Looking at Photographs
$24.00 Read moreA lavishly illustrated history of photography in essays by the author of Otherwise Known as the Human Condition
See/Saw shows how photographs frame and change our perspective on the world. Taking in p- Author: Dyer, Geoff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 04 2021
- ISBN10: 1644450445
- Language: English
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Letters to Camondo
$22.00 Read moreA tragic family history told in a collection of imaginary letters to a famed collector, Mo?e de Camondo.
63 rue de Monceau, Paris
Dear friend,
As you may have guessed by now, I am not in your house by- Author: de Waal, Edmund
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 07 2022
- ISBN10: 1250851068
- Language: English
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The World as We Knew It: Dispatches from a Changing Climate
$16.95 Read moreNineteen leading literary writers from around the globe offer timely, haunting first-person reflections on how climate change has altered their lives–including essays by Lydia Millet, Alexandra Kleem… [more below]
- Author: Brady, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 14 2022
- ISBN10: 1646220307
- Language: English
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Mailer’s Last Days: New and Selected Remembrances of a Life in Literature
$22.00 Add to cartThis book of essays by Norman Mailer’s biographer, Dr. J. Michael Lennon, collect personal and literary reminiscences, insights, and investigations from the last half century. Through the rising actio… [more below]
- Author: Lennon, J. Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1736494651
- Language: English
