Literary Criticism
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The Illustrated Mark Twain and the Buffalo Express: 10 Stories and over a Century of Sketches
$26.95 Add to cartRanging from his first impression of Niagara Falls to the deteriorating condition of a cemetery in his Buffalo neighborhood, to more satirical statements on the state of American journalism, Twain’s B
- Author: Reigstad, Thomas J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 138
- Publish Date: February 20 2024
- ISBN10: 1493076035
- Language: English
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The Language of the Night: Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy
$18.99 Add to cartFeaturing a new introduction by Ken Liu, this revised edition of Ursula K. Le Guin’s first full-length collection of essays covers her background as a writer and educator, on fantasy and science ficti… [more below]
- Author: Le Guin, Ursula K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 1668034905
- Language: English
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The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
$27.99 Add to cartIn 2020, Olivia Laing began to restore an eighteenth-century walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual plants. The work brought to light a crucial question for our age: Who gets to live i
- Author: Laing, Olivia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 25 2024
- ISBN10: 0393882004
- Language: English
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The Book of Mothers: How Literature Can Help Us Reinvent Modern Motherhood
$29.00 Read more“Timely and evergreen, engaging and infuriating, personal and universal–a necessary reintroduction to some of fiction’s most familiar mothers.” –Cecile Richards, bestselling author of Make Trouble a
- Author: Mullins, Carrie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 1250285062
- Language: English
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The Book-Makers: A History of the Book in Eighteen Lives
$32.00 Add to cartA scholar and bookmaker “breathes both books-as-objects and their creators back into life” (Financial Times) in this five-hundred-year history of printed books, told through the people who created the… [more below]
- Author: Smyth, Adam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 28 2024
- ISBN10: 1541605640
- Language: English
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Music from Elsewhere: Haunting Tunes from the Afterlife, Alien Worlds and Occult Realms
$19.99 Add to cartWhen school girl Janey Macklin disappeared from the seedy side of London in 1988, her case went cold, with no body and no witnesses. Now, thirty years later, private detective Kate Marshall has been a
- Series: Private Detective Kate Marshall #5
- Author: Bryndza, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 372
- Publish Date: July 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1914547268
- Language: English
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The Best of Brevity: Twenty Groundbreaking Years of Flash Nonfiction
$6.99 Read moreThe ULTIMATE, complete collection of the original Mowgli stories!
This collection of stories features Mowgli, a young boy who lives amongst the wildlife of the jungle. From being tracked and hunted by- Author: Kipling, Rudyard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 10 2016
- ISBN10: 1944686320
- Language: English
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Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma
$17.00 Add to cartA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK – NATIONAL BESTSELLER – A timely, passionate, provocative, blisteringly smart interrogation of how we make and experience art in the age of cancel culture, and of the lin… [more below]
- Author: Dederer, Claire
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 0525564187
- Language: English
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Cosmic Connections: Poetry in the Age of Disenchantment
$37.95 Add to cartA Times Literary Supplement Best Book of the Year
A major new work by Charles Taylor: the long-awaited follow-up to The Language Animal, exploring the Romantic poetics central to his theory of languag- Author: Taylor, Charles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: May 21 2024
- ISBN10: 0674296087
- Language: English
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The Uptown Local: Joy, Death, and Joan Didion: A Memoir
$28.00 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 006337157X
- Language: English
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Reversing Entropy: Poems
$22.00 Add to cartFrom the pen of beloved poet Luci Shaw comes a new collection that celebrates inspired creativity as an antidote to chaos.
The poet’s own words best describe the heart of this pinnacle collection of n- Author: Shaw, Luci
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1640608702
- Language: English
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How to Think Like a Woman: Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind
$18.00 Add to cartFrom a bold new voice in nonfiction, an exhilarating account of the lives and works of influential 17th and 18th century feminist philosophers Mary Wollstonecraft and her predecessors who have been wr
- Author: Penaluna, Regan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 080216272X
- Language: English
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Too Good to Be Altogether Lost: Rediscovering Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House Books
$36.95 Add to cartLaura Ingalls Wilder, author of the well-known Little House series, wrote stories from her childhood because they were “too good to be altogether lost.” And those stories seemed far from being lost du… [more below]
- Author: Hill, Pamela Smith
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1496227883
- Language: English
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Boccaccio: A Biography
$37.50 Add to cartA comprehensive biography of the celebrated author of the Decameron, a medieval masterpiece written in early Italian.
Boccaccio (1313-75) stands with Dante and Petrarch as one of the “Three Crowns” o- Author: Santagata, Marco
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: May 07 2025
- ISBN10: 0226820947
- Language: English
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What Light Can Do PB
$16.99 Add to cartUniversally lauded poet Robert Hass offers a stunning, wide-ranging collection of essays on art, imagination, and the natural world–with accompanying photos throughout.
What Light Can Do is a magnific
- Author: Hass, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: July 30 2013
- ISBN10: 0061923915
- Language: English
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Bad Indians Book Club: Reading at the Edge of a Thousand Worlds
$27.99 Add to cartIn this powerful reframing of the stories that make us, Anishinaabe writer Patty Krawec leads us into the borderlands of history, science, memoir, and fiction to ask: What worlds do books written by m
- Author: Krawec, Patty
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 231
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1506499120
- Language: English
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Wild for Austen: A Rebellious, Subversive, and Untamed Jane
$30.00 Read moreIncisive, funny, and deeply-researched insights into the life, writing, and legacy of Jane Austen, by the preeminent scholar Devoney Looser.
Thieves! Spies! Abolitionists! Ghosts! If we ever truly bel- Author: Looser, Devoney
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1250361338
- Language: English
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Mrs Dalloway: Biography of a Novel
$27.95 Add to cartThe first book in the ‘Biography of a novel’ series offers a compelling account of Virginia Woolf’s masterpiece.
The fourth and best-known of Virginia Woolf’s novels, Mrs Dalloway is a modernist maste- Series: Biography of a Novel
- Author: Hussey, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: July 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1526176815
- Language: English
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One Day We’ll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter: Essays
$19.99 Add to cartOne of NPR’s Best Books of the Year
A DEBUT COLLECTION OF FIERCE, FUNNY ESSAYS ABOUT GROWING UP THE DAUGHTER OF INDIAN IMMIGRANTS IN WESTERN CULTURE, ADDRESSING SEXISM, STEREOTYPES, AND THE UNIVERSAL- Author: Koul, Scaachi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 02 2017
- ISBN10: 1250121027
- Language: English
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A Little History of Poetry
$15.00 Add to cartA vital guide to poetry from ancient times to the present
Poetry is language made special, so that it will be remembered and valued. It does not always work – over the centuries countless thousands o- Series: Little Histories
- Author: Carey, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 0300283423
- Language: English
