Literary Criticism
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Experience: A Memoir (25th Anniversary Edition)
$20.00 Add to cartMartin Amis blends vivid memories, sharp wit, and tender honesty to deliver an unforgettable memoir that explores his relationships with family, personal tragedies, and the absurdities of being known.
- Author: Amis, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1250414881
- Language: English
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Videotape
$14.95 Add to cartObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
Over the span of a single decade, VHS technology changed the relationship between privacy and- Series: Object Lessons
- Author: Godeanu-Kenworthy, Oana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 04 2025
- ISBN10: 9798765100004
- Language: English
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This Craft of Verse
$22.95 Add to cart“A wondrously limpid testament to the pleasures of reading.” –Steven Poole, The Guardian
Six incandescent lectures on literature from the patron saint of mirrors, metafiction, and infinite libraries.- Series: Charles Eliot Norton Lectures
- Author: Borges, Jorge Luis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 0674302451
- Language: English
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Lola the Interpreter
$18.95 Add to cartThe final book by the award-winning and celebrated writer Lyn Hejinian
Lyn Hejinian’s Lola the Interpreter is a prose poem in which an ‘I’ and a series of quasi-characters (including Lola) interpret on
- Series: Wesleyan Poetry
- Author: Hejinian, Lyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 0819501972
- Language: English
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Poem a Day: 366 Poems, Old and New – One for Each Day of the Year
$22.95 Add to cartFill your life with more poetry, every day of the year! Read it daily by yourself or use it to connect with friends or your book club
A book for self-discovery, and also sharing, with more than 100,00- Author: McCosker, Karen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 158642419X
- Language: English
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Scared by the Bible: The Roots of Horror in Scripture
$18.95 Add to cart“Grafius uses his extensive knowledge of horror films to tease out horror tropes from the Bible . . . this book is thought-provoking.” -Library Journal
You may know the Bible as a testament of faith. B
- Author: Grafius, Brandon R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1640657835
- Language: English
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The Greek Tragedies: Seventeen Plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides
$25.00 Add to cartChicago’s renowned translations of the greatest surviving plays of ancient Greece, collected into a single volume.
Drawn from the authoritative third editions of David Grene and Richmond Lattimore’s- Author: Aeschylus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1136
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0226844692
- Language: English
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Queer Cambridge: An Alternative History
$29.95 Add to cartQueer Cambridge recounts the untold story of a gay community living, for many decades, at the very heart of the British Establishment. Making effective use of chiefly forgotten archival sources – incl… [more below]
- Author: Goldhill, Simon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 316
- Publish Date: January 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1009528068
- Language: English
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The Brothers Grimm: A Biography
$20.00 Add to cartThe first English-language biography in over fifty years to tell the full, vibrant story of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, known to history as the Brothers Grimm
A New Yorker “Best Book of 2024” Selection- Author: Schmiesing, Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 0300285574
- Language: English
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Devil’s Contract: The History of the Faustian Bargain
$19.99 Add to cart“Lively . . . excoriating, eloquent . . . We are all Faustians now.” — James Wood, The New Yorker
A devilishly fascinating tour of the Faustian bargain through the ages, from brimstone to blues and b- Author: Simon, Ed
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1685892078
- Language: English
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Far Calls: On Omens, Slips, & Epiphanies
$37.00 Add to cartAn inquiry into the theories and practices of overhearing
When words are not heard but overheard, when phrases are perceived in bits and pieces, and when speakers, failing to do as they intend, state- Author: Heller-Roazen, Daniel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1945861045
- Language: English
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American Proteus: Narrative Self-Making in the Novels of Charles Brockden Brown
$35.00 Add to cart- Author: Wenke, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 0881469920
- Language: English
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Selected Poems: Dual-Language Edition
$16.00 Add to cartA selection of poems from one of the nineteenth century’s greatest French writers
For most of his life, Victor Hugo (1802-1885) was the most famous writer in the world. His legacy includes celebrated- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Hugo, Victor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 26 2002
- ISBN10: 0142437034
- Language: English
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The Idea Machine: How Books Built Our World and Shape Our Future
$34.95 Add to cartBooks are our first and most lasting form of information technology. Books preserve ideas, yes, but they also provoke new ones– they are true tools for thinking. In The Idea Machine, Joel J. Miller s… [more below]
- Author: Miller, Joel J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: November 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1493088939
- Language: English
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U and I: A True Story
$19.00 Add to cartBaker, one of the most engaging and highly praised examiners of the microscopic matter of daily life (The Mezzanine, Room Temperature), finally takes on a subject his own size–fellow novelist and omn… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Baker, Nicholson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 04 1992
- ISBN10: 0679735755
- Language: English
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Cat
$14.95 Add to cartObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
Rebecca van Laer and her partner purchase a home and move in with their senior cats, Toby and- Series: Object Lessons
- Author: Laer, Rebecca Van
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: October 02 2025
- ISBN10: 9798765114629
- Language: English
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Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery
$18.00 Add to cartIn these ten intertwined essays, one of our most provocative young novelists proves that she is just as stylish and outrageous an art critic. For when Jeanette Winterson looks at works as diverse as t… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Winterson, Jeanette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 04 1997
- ISBN10: 0679768203
- Language: English
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The Word for World: The Maps of Ursula K. Le Guin
$25.99 Add to cartWhen Ursula K. Le Guin started writing a new novel, she would begin by drawing a map. The Word for World is the first publication focusing on maps by the celebrated author, publishing many for the fir… [more below]
- Author: Le Guin, Ursula K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 10 2026
- ISBN10: 1068591811
- Language: English
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So Many Books, 2nd Edition: Reading and Publishing in an Age of Abundance
$15.95 Read moreA charming new edition of a much-loved book about books
“A playful celebrant of literary proliferation.”–New Yorker
In So Many Books, Gabriel Zaid offers his observations on the literary condition: a
- Author: Zaid, Gabriel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1589882075
- Language: English
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Funnier: A New Theory for the Practice of Comedy
$30.00 Add to cartA roadmap for understanding and creating comedy from the visionary Second City comedy director
Great comedy can feel ineffable–and unlearnable. Debunking the myth that “either you are funny, or you a
- Author: Libera, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 15 2025
- ISBN10: 0810149362
- Language: English
