Literary Criticism
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The Best of Brevity: Twenty Groundbreaking Years of Flash Nonfiction
$16.95 Add to cart- Author: Bossiere, Zoë
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 276
- Publish Date: November 17 2020
- ISBN10: 1941628230
- Language: English
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Music from Elsewhere: Haunting Tunes from the Afterlife, Alien Worlds and Occult Realms
$22.95 Add to cartA compendium of other musics, channelled from the spirit world, the fairy kingdom, outer space, secret societies and occult lodges.
This unique collection of esoteric earworms gathers, and reproduces,- Author: Skinner, Doug
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: December 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1913689212
- Language: English
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The Occult Sylvia Plath: The Hidden Spiritual Life of the Visionary Poet
$35.00 Add to cartExplores Sylvia Plath’s enduring interest and active practice in mysticism and the occult from childhood until her tragic death in 1963
– Decodes the alchemical, Qabalistic, hermetic, spiritual, and T- Author: Gordon-Bramer, Julia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 1644118629
- Language: English
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Against Progress
$14.95 Add to cartTo define ‘progress’ is to lay claim to the future. Seminal thinker Slavoj Zizek turns essayist to interrogate the competing visions which form the horizons of human possibility and ask: Can things, w
- Series: Zizek’s Essays
- Author: Zizek, Slavoj
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: January 09 2025
- ISBN10: 135051585X
- Language: English
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Fate the Hunter: Early Arabic Hunting Poems
$15.00 Add to cartA rich anthology of pre-Islamic and early Islamic poetry on the beauties and perils of the hunt
In the poems of Fate the Hunter, many of them translated into English for the first time, trained cheeta- Series: Library of Arabic Literature #100
- Author: Montgomery, James E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1479834254
- Language: English
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Gods and Mortals: Ancient Greek Myths for Modern Readers
$24.95 Add to cartAn entrancing new telling of ancient Greek myths
“This book is a triumph! . . . [A] magnificent retelling of the Greek myths.”–Alexander McCall Smith, author of the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency ser- Author: Johnston, Sarah Iles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 0691239878
- Language: English
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Trauma Plot: A Life
$28.00 Add to cartFrom a rising literary star and the author of how to be a good girl comes a brilliant, biting, and beautifully wrought memoir of trauma and the cost of survival
A VOGUE AND VULTURE BEST BOOK OF THE YE- Author: Hood, Jamie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 059370097X
- Language: English
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More Than Love: The Enduring Fascination with Edgar Allan Poe
$28.00 Read more- Author: Armiento, Amy Branam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 314
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 0881469467
- Language: English
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Pantheon: An Illustrated Handbook to the Greek Gods & Goddesses
$26.99 Add to cartA beautifully illustrated handbook, profiling more than 50 characters from Greek Mythology
“I love Caroline Lawrence and so should you.” – Natalie Haynes “Huge fun!” – Tom Holland Get to know the a- Author: Lawrence, Caroline
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 1781579490
- Language: English
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My Life with Bob: Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues
$19.99 Add to cartPeople Pick – O Magazine Title to Pick Up Now – Vanity Fair Hot Type – Glamour New Book You’re Guaranteed to Love This Summer – LitHub.com Best Book about Books – Buzzfeed Book You Need to Read This S
- Author: Paul, Pamela
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1250182549
- Language: English
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Walking in the Dark: James Baldwin, My Father, and Me
$24.95 Add to cartA moving exploration of the life and work of the celebrated American writer, blending biography and memoir with literary criticism.
Since James Baldwin’s death in 1987, his writing – including The Fi- Author: Field, Douglas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1526175177
- Language: English
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The Abandoners: On Mothers and Monsters
$18.99 Add to cartWhat kind of mother abandons her child? During the pandemic, trapped at home with young children and struggling to find creative space to write, journalist Bego?a G?mez Urzaiz became fixated on artist
- Author: Gómez Urzaiz, Begoña
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1324079479
- Language: English
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Scum Manifesto
$14.95 Add to cartClassic radical feminist statement from the woman who shot Andy Warhol
“Life in this society being, at best, an utter bore and no aspect of society being at all relevant to women, there remains to ci- Author: Solanas, Valerie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: April 05 2016
- ISBN10: 1784784400
- Language: English
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44 Poems on Being with Each Other: A Poetry Unbound Collection
$27.99 Add to cart44 Poems on Being with Each Other is a new volume that offers immersive reflections on the human connection. With an observant eye, P?draig ? Tuama shares an enlightening meditation on each poem, rev
- Author: Tuama, Pádraig Ó.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1324086165
- Language: English
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Context Collapse: A Poem Containing a History of Poetry
$15.95 Add to cartLiterary critic Ryan Ruby uncovers the secret history of poetry in a mock-academic verse essay filled with wit and wisdom.
One of Publishers Weekly‘s Best Books of 2024 Prophet. Entertainer. Courtier.- Author: Ruby, Ryan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1644214237
- Language: English
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Dante’s Divine Comedy: A Biography
$24.95 Add to cartThe life and times of Dante’s soaring poetic allegory of the soul’s redemptive journey toward God
Written during his exile from Florence in the early 1300s, Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy describes t- Author: Luzzi, Joseph
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 0691156778
- Language: English
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Constant Reader: The New Yorker Columns 1927-28
$19.00 Add to cartDorothy Parker’s complete weekly New Yorker column about books and people and the rigors of reviewing.
When, in 1927, Dorothy Parker became a book critic for the New Yorker, she was already a legendar
- Author: Parker, Dorothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1961341255
- Language: English
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Ghassan Kanafani: Selected Political Writings
$25.95 Add to cart“No other author has been as profoundly formative for me as Kanafani” Mohammed El-Kurd, poet, writer and journalist, author of Rifqa
“I cannot think of a better collection to guide anyone seeking a mor
- Author: Kanafani, Ghassan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 20 2024
- ISBN10: 0745349374
- Language: English
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The Book of Yokai, Expanded Second Edition: Mysterious Creatures of Japanese Folklore
$32.95 Add to cartSignificantly expanded and updated–a lively excursion into Japanese folklore and its increasing influence within global popular culture.
Monsters, spirits, fantastic beings, and supernatural creatur- Author: Foster, Michael Dylan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 0520403886
- Language: English
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The Book of Yokai, Expanded Second Edition: Mysterious Creatures of Japanese Folklore
$45.00 Add to cartSignificantly expanded and updated–a lively excursion into Japanese folklore and its increasing influence within global popular culture.
Monsters, spirits, fantastic beings, and supernatural creatur- Author: Foster, Michael Dylan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 0520389557
- Language: English
