Literary Criticism
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New York Stories: Landmark Writing from Four Decades of New York Magazine
$27.00 Add to cartThe magazine that is the city that is the world
Just in time for its fortieth anniversary, New York magazine presents a stunning collection of some of its best and most influential articles, stories t- Author: Editors of New York Magazine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: September 16 2008
- ISBN10: 0812979923
- Language: English
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A Day Like Any Other: The Life of James Schuyler
$40.00 Add to cartThe long-awaited biography of the mercurial, troubled, brilliant poet James Schuyler, the Pulitzer Prize winner who helped shape the New York School of poetry in the 1960s.
Nathan Kernan’s A Day Like A- Author: Kernan, Nathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 0374281173
- Language: English
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The Charterhouse of Parma
$22.00 Add to cartRichard Howard’s exuberant and definitive rendition of Stendhal’s stirring tale has brought about the rediscovery of this classic by modern readers. Stendhal narrates a young aristocrat’s adventures i… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Stendhal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: September 12 2000
- ISBN10: 0679783180
- Language: English
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The New Negro: A History in Documents, 1887-1937
$39.95 Add to cartAn authoritative anthology tracing the history of one of the most important concepts Black people drew on to challenge the brutal, totalizing system of Jim Crow racism
This book brings together a weal- Author: Patterson, Martha H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: August 19 2025
- ISBN10: 0691268592
- Language: English
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Alterations
$17.95 Add to cart“In the city where I was born there is a collective of women taking apart donated wedding dresses. Seam ripping and taking off lace, uprooting stitches and unstringing beads–one by one by hand in the… [more below]
- Series: Undelivered Lectures
- Author: Winrock, Cori
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: July 08 2025
- ISBN10: 9798893389012
- Language: English
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Monsterland: A Journey Around the World’s Dark Imagination
$22.00 Add to cartMonsters, in all their terrifying glory, have preoccupied humans since we began telling stories. But where did these stories come from?
In Monsterland, award-winning author Nicholas Jubber goes on a j
- Author: Jubber, Nicholas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 10 2025
- ISBN10: 1964992117
- Language: English
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Measure for Measure: The New Oxford Shakespeare
$8.99 Add to cart‘Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.’
Can one life be measured against another? Can a woman’s body be measured against a man’s life? Can consensual sex be measured against rape? Measure for Mea- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: July 11 2024
- ISBN10: 0192865862
- Language: English
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Muse of Fire: World War I as Seen Through the Lives of the Soldier Poets
$19.99 Add to cartMichael Korda, the best-selling author of Hero and Alone, tells the story of the First World War not in any conventional way but through the intertwined lives of the soldier poets who came to describe
- Author: Korda, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1324096187
- Language: English
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Words with Power: Being a Second Study the Bible and Literature
$19.00 Add to cartIn Words With Power, literary critic and theorist Northrop Frye continues his exploration, begun in The Great Code, of the influence of Biblical themes and forms of expression on Western literature, w
- Author: Frye, Northrop
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 372
- Publish Date: July 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0156983656
- Language: English
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I Write to Find Out What I Am Thinking: Collected Nonfiction
$35.00 Add to cartThis second hardcover omnibus edition of Didion’s collected nonfiction contains her final four books: Blue Nights, South and West, Let Me Tell You What I Mean, and her bestselling and most famous work… [more below]
- Series: Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics
- Author: Didion, Joan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 472
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 0593992210
- Language: English
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Toward a Living Archive of African Poetry: Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani on the New-Generation African Poets Chapbook Series
$17.95 Add to cartTOWARD A LIVING ARCHIVE OF AFRICAN POETRY collects Kwame Dawes’s and Chris Abani’s introductory essays for the New-Generation African Poets Chapbook Box Set Series. These essays are conversations t
- Author: Dawes, Kwame
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 1636142559
- Language: English
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The Great Gatsby: Original 1925 Edition (An F. Scott Fitzgerald Classic Novel)
$7.33 Add to cartThe Great Jazz Age Novel
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The 1925 Original Version, with Classroom History
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The Great Gatsby is considered F. Scott Fitzgerald’s magnum opus, exploring themes of decadence, idealism, social
- Author: Fitzgerald, F. Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 116
- Publish Date: May 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1936767848
- Language: English
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The World According to Joan Didion
$18.99 Add to cart**INDIE BESTSELLER**
A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2023 by The Millions – B&N Best Books of 2023 – “Shaped by intellectual rigor and artistic grace … McDonnell’s portrait is vibrant, fluent, sensitive,
- Author: McDonnell, Evelyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 29 2025
- ISBN10: 0063419157
- Language: English
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The Uptown Local: Joy, Death, and Joan Didion: A Memoir
$18.99 Add to cartA brilliant debut memoir about a young writer–struggling with depression, family issues, and addiction–and his life-changing decade working for Joan Didion
As an aspiring novelist in his early twenti
- Author: Leadbeater, Cory
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0063371588
- Language: English
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On Elizabeth Bishop
$16.95 Add to cartA compelling portrait of a beloved poet from one of today’s most acclaimed novelists
In this book, novelist Colm T?ib?n offers a deeply personal introduction to the work and life of one of his most im- Series: Writers on Writers #7
- Author: TóibÃn, Colm
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0691271046
- Language: English
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Second Chances: Shakespeare and Freud
$20.00 Add to cartA powerful exploration of the human capacity for renewal, as seen through Shakespeare and Freud
“A compellingly readable and intelligent book. . . . Both authors write with impressive energy.”–Rowan- Series: Anthony Hecht Lectures in the Humanities
- Author: Greenblatt, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: May 27 2025
- ISBN10: 0300283334
- Language: English
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Christian Race Realism
$26.99 Add to cartIn Christian Race Realism, Michael Spangler defines and defends race realism from a Christian perspective. He draws on arguments from nature, Scripture, American history, and experience. First, he giv
- Author: Spangler, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: April 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1967584001
- Language: English
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Storyteller: The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson
$35.00 Add to cartFrom a critically acclaimed biographer, an engrossing narrative of Robert Louis Stevenson’s life, a story as romantic and adventurous as his fiction
“This magnificent biography of Robert Louis Stevens- Author: Damrosch, Leo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 584
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 0300268629
- Language: English
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Shakespeare’s Guide to Living the Good Life: Life Lessons for Comedy, Tragedy, and Everything in Between
$21.99 Add to cart“Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.” —Measure for Measure, act 3, scene 1
Shakespeare’s plays and poems remain as beloved in the twenty-first century as they were in the sixteenth. For all- Author: Bradley, Kim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1950253570
- Language: English
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How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines
$32.00 Add to cartThoroughly revised and expanded for a new generation of readers, this classic guide to enjoying literature to its fullest–a lively, enlightening, and entertaining introduction to a diverse range of w
- Author: Foster, Thomas C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: March 11 2014
- ISBN10: 006232652X
- Language: English
