Literary Criticism
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Mythology (75th Anniversary Illustrated Edition): Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes
$32.00 Add to cartThis deluxe edition of the world’s most beloved, bestselling classic on Greek, Roman, and Norse mythology is stunningly illustrated with specially commissioned full-color plates and a beautiful gold-b… [more below]
- Author: Hamilton, Edith
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 26 2017
- ISBN10: 0316438529
- Language: English
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A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
$20.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – From the Booker Prize-winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth of December comes a literary master class on what makes great stories work and what they can tell us
- Author: Saunders, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 12, 2022
- ISBN10: 1984856030
- Language: English
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Notes of a Native Son
$16.00 Add to cart#26 on The Guardian’s list of 100 best nonfiction books of all time, the essays explore what it means to be Black in America
In an age of Black Lives Matter, James Baldwin’s essays on life in Harlem,- Author: Baldwin, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 20 2012
- ISBN10: 0807006238
- Language: English
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The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever
$21.99 Add to cartChristopher Hitchens’s personally curated New York Times bestselling anthology of the most influential and important writings on atheism, including original pieces by Salman Rushdie and Ian McEwan
From… [more below]- Author: Hitchens, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: November 06 2007
- ISBN10: 0306816083
- Language: English
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
$19.00 Add to cartMaya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Her life story is told in the documentary film And Still I Rise, as seen on PBS’s American Masters.
Here is a book as joyous- Author: Angelou, Maya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 21 2009
- ISBN10: 0812980026
- Language: English
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Leonard Cohen’s Book of Mercy: An Interpretation
$22.00 Add to cartLeonard Cohen’s Book of Mercy is a modern classic, appreciated by a wide readership, used in liturgy, and translated into more than a dozen languages. It is Leonard Cohen’s modern psalter, in which he… [more below]
- Author: Cohen, Doron B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 140
- Publish Date: January 23 2026
- ISBN10: 1666789313
- Language: English
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Thinking from Black: A Lexicon
$20.00 Add to cartAn expansive lexicon of words, terms, concepts, and ideas that takes the multiplicity of Black life as its point of departure.
Thinking from Black: A Lexicon is an unusual reference book. Its contribu- Author: The Practicing Refusal Collective
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 08 2026
- ISBN10: 0374620083
- Language: English
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The Art and Craft of Stephen King: The Story Behind Every Novel, Novella, and Short Story
$60.00 Add to cartThe first complete, in-depth examination of every work published by the “King of Horror,” Stephen King.
Stephen King is perhaps the most well-known author across horror, thriller, science fiction, and
- Author: Astic, Guy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 648
- Publish Date: September 15 2026
- ISBN10: 9798894141947
- Language: English
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The Wisdom of the Odyssey: Twenty-Four Life Lessons from Homer’s Epic
$19.95 Add to cart“Phil Cousineau always notices what nobody else does — a sure sign of a sharp writer. His odyssey through the Odyssey uncovers new sights at every site.”
— Daniel Handler, aka Lemony Snicket, author- Author: Cousineau, Phil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 30 2026
- ISBN10: 1955831270
- Language: English
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God’s Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse
$15.00 Add to cartIntroduced by Maya Angelou, the inspiring sermon-poems of James Weldon Johnson
James Weldon Johnson was a leading figure of the Harlem Renaissance, and one of the most revered African Americans of al- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Johnson, James Weldon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: June 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0143105418
- Language: English
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New Game Plus After Defeating the Last Boss, Vol. 2 (Light Novel): All These Beautiful, Problematic Girls in the First Town Have Gotten Really Attache
$16.00 Add to cartBEAUTIES FROM MIGHT’S PAST AND PRESENT CLASH! Touwa Akatsuki Illustration by Falmaro Touwa Akatsuki Illustration by Falmaro 2 Might has gone from being a legendary level-99 Thief to a young level-1 Sa… [more below]
- Series: New Game Plus After Defeating the Last Boss #2
- Author: Falmaro
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: June 09 2026
- ISBN10: 9798855422047
- Language: English
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The Bs Situation of Tougetsu Umidori, Vol. 4 (Light Novel): Volume 4
$16.00 Add to cartOn a fall day, Bullshit-chan takes Tougetsu Umidori to the mall. She’s acting odd–and has something to tell Umidori. But the sinister Mud Hat Faction is after them! Umidori with cat ears, Bullshit-ch… [more below]
- Series: The Bs Situation of Tougetsu Umidori #4
- Author: Ryouseirui, Kaeru
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: May 12 2026
- ISBN10: 9798855407730
- Language: English
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Henry VI, Part 3
$14.00 Add to cartThe acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series edited by A. R. Braunmuller and Stephen Orgel
The legendary Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with sc- Series: Pelican Shakespeare
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: December 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0140714677
- Language: English
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Pathemata, Or, the Story of My Mouth
$20.00 Add to cart***Longlisted for the 2025 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay***
Pathemata, Or, The Story of My Mouth is an experiment in interiority written in the pandemic studio. Something of… [more below]
- Author: Nelson, Maggie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: April 07 2026
- ISBN10: 9798891060388
- Language: English
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Way Makers: An Anthology of Women’s Writing about Walking
$18.95 Add to cartA sweeping collection of women’s writing on the wandering path, moving across genres, geographies, and centuries.
The follow-up to the celebrated Wanderers, Kerri Andrews’s Way Makers is the first an- Author: Andrews, Kerri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: May 06 2026
- ISBN10: 1836392044
- Language: English
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Defacing the Monument
$21.00 Read moreDefacing the Monument opens with the narration of an Operation Streamline hearing, a proceeding during which as many as 75 undocumented migrants are criminally prosecuted and sentenced en masse to ser
- Author: Briante, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 162
- Publish Date: August 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1934819905
- Language: English
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Shadow Side of Grace: The Nekyia of Flannery O’Connor’s Wise Blood
$27.00 Add to cart- Series: Flannery O’Connor
- Author: Foran, Scott M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 207
- Publish Date: May 05 2026
- ISBN10: 9798897360260
- Language: English
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Songs My Mother Taught Me: Why the Artist Must Take Sides
$17.95 Read moreAward-winning poet and performer Saul Williams explores how artists today must respond to systemic violence and injustice–in the words of Paul Robeson, by choosing sides.
Songs My Mother Taught Me i
- Series: Vanguard
- Author: Williams, Saul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: September 08 2026
- ISBN10: 9798888905845
- Language: English
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Why You Should Read Children’s Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise
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A celebration, in a pocket-sized format, of the joys and vital importance of children’s literature for adult readers, from the #1 New York Times Bestselling author of Impossible Creatures.- Author: Rundell, Katherine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: September 01 2026
- ISBN10: 9798217230747
- Language: English
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Like a Cat Loves a Bird: The Nine Lives of Muriel Spark
$29.95 Add to cart“A deeply stylish, astute, and illuminating portrait of a fascinating writer.”–Francesca Wade, author of Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife
A spiky and delicious new literary portrait of the great twentiet- Author: Bailey, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 09 2026
- ISBN10: 0691290172
- Language: English
