Literary Criticism
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The No-Pressure Book Journal: A No-Guilt, No-Shame, No-Stress Journal to Help You Read Better and Enjoy Books Again
$19.99 Add to cartHosts of the hit podcast Reading Glasses bring you the only reading journal you’ll ever need, designed to help book lovers read, rant, and reflect with undeniable ease. No stress. No pressure.
Brea a- Author: Grant, Brea
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 9798886741940
- Language: English
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Sidetracks
$18.95 Add to cartA TIME MUST-READ BOOK OF 2024
A 2024 NPR BOOK WE LOVE
A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2024
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 GRIFFIN POETRY PRIZE
Sidetracks, Bei Dao’s first new collection in almost fifteen year
- Author: Dao, Bei
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 081123844X
- Language: English
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Hell: In Search of a Christian Ecology
$26.95 Add to cartHell on earth is real. The toxic fusion of big oil, Evangelical Christianity, and white supremacy has ignited a worldwide inferno, more phantasmagoric than anything William Blake could dream up and mo
- Author: Morton, Timothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: May 28 2024
- ISBN10: 0231214715
- Language: English
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On the Couch: Writers Analyze Sigmund Freud
$29.95 Add to cartA collection of colorful and candid essays and other pieces about Freud and his legacy today, featuring twenty-five leading writers
With original contributions by Andr? Aciman – Sarah Boxer – Jennifer- Author: Blauner, Andrew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 0691242437
- Language: English
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Jane Austen and the Price of Happiness
$27.95 Add to cartDo Jane Austen novels truly celebrate–or undermine–romance and happy endings?
How did Jane Austen become a cultural icon for fairy-tale endings when her own books end in ways that are rushed, ironic,
- Author: Brodey, Inger Sigrun Bredkjær
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 1421448203
- Language: English
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Female Masculinity
$29.95 Add to cartIn this quintessential work of queer theory, Jack Halberstam takes aim at the protected status of male masculinity and shows that female masculinity has offered a distinct alternative to it for well o… [more below]
- Author: Halberstam, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: January 09 2019
- ISBN10: 1478001623
- Language: English
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Mural
$19.95 Add to cart“The most celebrated writer of verse in the Arab world.”
Poetry from former national poet of Palestine, illustrated by original drawings by John Berger
-Adam Shatz, The New York Times
Mahmoud Darwish w- Author: Darwish, Mahmoud
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1804297119
- Language: English
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This Part Is Silent: A Life Between Cultures
$17.99 Add to cartBorn in Korea, raised in the American South, and trying her best to survive British academia, SJ Kim probes her experiences as a writer, a scholar, and a daughter to confront the silences she finds in
- Author: Kim, Sj
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1324064765
- Language: English
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The Shield of Achilles
$22.95 Add to cartBack in print for the first time in decades, Auden’s National Book Award-winning poetry collection, in a critical edition that introduces it to a new generation of readers
The Shield of Achilles, whic- Series: W.H. Auden: Critical Editions #1
- Author: Auden, W. H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 069121865X
- Language: English
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The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Graphic Literature: Artists and Writers on Creating Graphic Narratives, Poetry Comics, and Literary Collage
$24.95 Read moreThe fourth volume in the immensely popular Field Guide series, The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Graphic Literature gives readers unprecedented insight into the techniques of 28 of today’s most inno
- Author: Ervick, Kelcey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: July 18 2023
- ISBN10: 194162829X
- Language: English
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Loving Sylvia Plath: A Reclamation
$27.99 Add to cartSylvia Plath is an object of enduring cultural fascination–the troubled patron saint of confessional poetry, a writer whose genius is buried under the weight of her status as the quintessential liter
- Author: Van Duyne, Emily
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1324006978
- Language: English
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Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies: How Doubting the Bard Became the Biggest Taboo in Literature
$21.00 Add to cartAn “extraordinarily brilliant” and “pleasurably naughty” (Andr? Aciman) investigation into the Shakespeare authorship question, exploring how doubting that William Shakespeare wrote his plays became a… [more below]
- Author: Winkler, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1982171278
- Language: English
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The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction: Tips from Editors, Teachers, and Writers in the Field
$15.95 Add to cartWith its unprecedented gathering of 25 brief essays by experts in the field, The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction meets the growing need for a concise yet creative exploration of
- Author: Masih, Tara L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 12 2009
- ISBN10: 0978984862
- Language: English
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Looking for Andy Griffith: A Father’s Journey
$28.00 Add to cartAndy Griffith (1926-2012) is one of North Carolina’s most beloved exports, capturing America’s heart as Sheriff Andy Taylor. Evan Dalton Smith was born in the North Carolina Piedmont over four decades… [more below]
- Author: Smith, Evan Dalton
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 28 2024
- ISBN10: 1469678985
- Language: English
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Writers Who Changed History
$40.00 Add to cartThis visual celebration of the world’s most celebrated thinkers tells the fascinating stories of their lives and pioneering ideas.
Writers Who Changed History places well-known writers in their histor- Series: DK History Changers
- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 0744096952
- Language: English
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Any Person Is the Only Self: Essays
$18.00 Add to cartContagiously curious essays on reading, art, and the life of the mind, from the acclaimed author of The Unreality of Memory.
Who are we when we read? When we journal? Are we more ourselves alone or w- Author: Gabbert, Elisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 0374605890
- Language: English
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Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science
$32.00 Add to cartA captivating portrait of the poet and the scientist who shared an enchanted view of nature
Emily Dickinson and Charles Darwin were born at a time when the science of studying the natural world was kn- Author: Bergland, Renée
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: April 30 2024
- ISBN10: 0691235287
- Language: English
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The Genius of Judy: How Judy Blume Rewrote Childhood for All of Us
$28.99 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER
An intimate and expansive look at Judy Blume’s life, work, and cultural impact, focusing on her most iconic–and controversial–young adult novels, from Are You There God? It’s Me,- Author: Bergstein, Rachelle
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1668010909
- Language: English
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Second Chances: Shakespeare and Freud
$28.00 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- Author: Greenblatt, Stephen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 0300276362
- Language: English
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A Summer with Pascal
$22.95 Add to cartFrom an eminent scholar, a spirited introduction to one of the great polymaths in the history of Europe.
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) is best known in the English-speaking world for his contributions to- Author: Compagnon, Antoine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 0674295412
- Language: English
