Literary Collections
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Only a Voice: Essays
$29.95 Read moreEssays on politics, power, and culture from one of America’s most eminent critics
In Only a Voice, George Scialabba examines the chasm between modernity’s promise of progress and the sobering reality- Author: Scialabba, George
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1804292001
- Language: English
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Black Boy Smile: A Memoir in Moments
$17.99 Add to cartA New York Times bestselling and award-winning author presents a complex story about his coming-of-age journey as a Black boy, from the societal roots of trauma to finding joy.
“If I had two wishes,- Author: Watkins, D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 16 2023
- ISBN10: 030692398X
- Language: English
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Always Reaching: The Selected Writings of Anne Truitt
$38.00 Read moreAn expansive collection of texts providing insight into the inner life, creativity, and practice of the innovative American artist Anne Truitt
Spanning more than fifty years, this comprehensive volum- Author: Truitt, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 0300260415
- Language: English
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On Quality: An Inquiry Into Excellence: Unpublished and Selected Writings
$26.99 Read moreFeaturing long-awaited selections from Robert M. Pirsig’s unpublished writings, from before and after Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, an original collection illuminating the central theme o
- Author: Pirsig, Robert M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 26 2022
- ISBN10: 0063084643
- Language: English
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Fifty-Two Stories
$19.00 Add to cartFrom the celebrated, award-winning translators of Anna Karenina and The Brothers Karamazov a lavish volume of stories by one of the most influential short fiction writers of all time.
Anton Chekhov l- Series: Vintage Classics
- Author: Chekhov, Anton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: January 19 2021
- ISBN10: 0525562389
- Language: English
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Banzeiro Òkòtó: The Amazon as the Center of the World
$18.00 Read moreA confrontation with the destruction of the Amazon by a writer who moved her life into the heart of the forest.
In lyrical, impassioned prose, Eliane Brum recounts her move from São Paulo to Altamira- Author: Brum, Eliane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1644452197
- Language: English
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Calypso
$28.00 Read moreDavid Sedaris returns with his most deeply personal and darkly hilarious book.
If you’ve ever laughed your way through David Sedaris’s cheerfully misanthropic stories, you might think you know what yo- Author: Sedaris, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 29 2018
- ISBN10: 0316392383
- Language: English
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Mother Reader: Essential Writings on Motherhood
$26.95 Add to cartThe intersection of motherhood and creative life is explored in these writings on mothering that turn the spotlight from the child to the mother herself. Here, in memoirs, testimonials, diaries, essay… [more below]
- Author: Davey, Moyra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 01 2001
- ISBN10: 1583220720
- Language: English
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Letters from Tove
$19.95 Read moreA virtual memoir in letters by the beloved creator of the Moomins
Tove Jansson’s works, even her famed Moomin books, fairly teem with letters of one kind or another, from messages bobbing in bottles- Author: Jansson, Tove
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: June 22 2021
- ISBN10: 1517910102
- Language: English
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The Greek Histories: The Sweeping History of Ancient Greece as Told by Its First Chroniclers: Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, and Plutarch
$23.00 Read moreFrom the leading scholars behind The Greek Plays, a collection of the best translations of the foremost Greek historians, presenting a sweeping history of ancient Greece as recorded by its first chron… [more below]
- Author: Lefkowitz, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: January 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1984854321
- Language: English
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The Oxford Guide to Arthurian Literature and Legend
$20.99 Add to cartThe Oxford Guide to Arthurian Literature and Legend is both a critical history of the Arthurian tradition and a reference guide to Arthurian works, names, characters, symbols, and places. Seven essays… [more below]
- Series: Oxford Quick Reference
- Author: Lupack, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: May 11 2007
- ISBN10: 019921509X
- Language: English
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Irish Fairy and Folk Tales
$18.00 Add to cartGathered by the renowned Irish poet, playwright, and essayist William Butler Yeats, the sixty-five tales and poems in this delightful collection uniquely capture the rich heritage of the Celtic imagin… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Yeats, William Butler
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 11 2003
- ISBN10: 0812968557
- Language: English
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So We Can Know: Writers of Color on Pregnancy, Loss, Abortion, and Birth
$21.95 Read moreAn anthology of nonfiction by writers of color that transcends form, So We Can Know is a record of varied and intricate relationships to pregnancy.
- Author: Girmay, Aracelis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1642598399
- Language: English
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Reckoning
$28.00 Read moreA Publishers Weekly Top 10 Memoir of the Season
The work of a lifetime from the Tony Award-winning, bestselling author of The Vagina Monologues-political, personal, profound, and more than forty years- Author: Ensler, Eve
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 31 2023
- ISBN10: 163557904X
- Language: English
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Culpeper’s Complete Herbal: Over 400 Herbs and Their Uses
$12.99 Read moreFrom Artichoke to Rhubarb- Vine to Hawthorn- The Complete Herbal provides the most comprehensive listings of herbs and their uses in existence.
First published over 350 years ago by herbalist and apot- Author: Culpeper, Nicholas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1789506522
- Language: English
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Interventions 2020
$110.75 Add to cartThe death of God in the West was the prelude to a formidable metaphysical soap opera that continues to this day. Christianity’s masterstroke was to combine a fierce belief in the individual with the p
- Author: Houellebecq, Michel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 314
- Publish Date: May 23 2022
- ISBN10: 1509549951
- Language: English
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The Window Seat: Notes from a Life in Motion
$17.00 Read moreA stunning new collection of essays from the award-winning author of Happiness, The Window Seat explores border crossings both literal and philosophical, our relationship with the natural world, and t
- Author: Forna, Aminatta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 17 2022
- ISBN10: 0802159869
- Language: English
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Pleasure of Thinking: Essays
$26.00 Read moreA yet-untranslated essay collection on the importance of critical thought, from one of the foremost Chinese intellectuals of the 1990s.
Wang Xiaobo’s Pleasure of Thinking is an essay collection as rio- Author: Xiaobo, Wang
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1662601255
- Language: English
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How to Start Writing (and When to Stop): Advice for Writers
$17.95 Add to cartIn this witty “how-to” guide, Wislawa Szymborska has nothing but sympathy for the labors of would-be writers generally: “I myself started out with rotten poetry and stories,” she confesses in this col… [more below]
- Author: Szymborska, Wislawa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: October 05 2021
- ISBN10: 0811229718
- Language: English
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Body Language: Writers on Identity, Physicality, and Making Space for Ourselves
$16.95 Read moreA kaleidoscopic anthology of essays published by Catapult magazine about the stories our bodies tell, and how we move within–and against–expectations of race, gender, health, and ability
Bodies are- Author: Chung, Nicole
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1646221311
- Language: English
