Literary Criticism
-
Seamus Heaney’s Gifts
$39.95 Add to cart“The fact of the matter,” Seamus Heaney said in a 1997 interview with the Paris Review, “is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry.” Throughout his c
- Author: Hart, Henry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: December 13 2024
- ISBN10: 0807182567
- Language: English
-
On Book Banning: Or, How the New Censorship Consensus Trivializes Art and Undermines Democracy
$15.95 Add to cartThe freedom to read is under attack.
From the destruction of libraries in ancient Rome to today’s state-sponsored efforts to suppress LGBTQ+ literature, book bans arise from the impulse toward social c
- Series: Field Notes #9
- Author: Wells, Ira
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1771966637
- Language: English
-
Ellmann’s Joyce: The Biography of a Masterpiece and Its Maker
$35.00 Add to cartThe story of the most acclaimed literary biography of the twentieth century–an ingeniously plotted, behind-the-scenes account of how the literary critic and scholar Richard Ellmann shaped James Joyce
- Author: Leader, Zachary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 0674248392
- Language: English
-
Saxophone
$14.95 Add to cartObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
The saxophone is a contradictory instrument that has rooted itself in the soil of pop culture- Series: Object Lessons
- Author: Hawkins, Mollie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 20 2025
- ISBN10: 9798765114773
- Language: English
-
God’s Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible
$18.99 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
“This scrupulously elegant account of the creation of what four centuries of history has confirmed is the finest English-language work of all time, i
- Author: Nicolson, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: December 13 2013
- ISBN10: 0060838736
- Language: English
-
A Room of One’s Own: Gilded Pocket Edition
$12.99 Add to cartThis handsome gift edition presents Virginia Woolf’s classic work, A Room of One’s Own, featuring a luxurious gold embossed cover design, gilded page edges and patterned endpapers.
One of the greates- Series: Arcturus Ornate Classics
- Author: Woolf, Virginia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1398842265
- Language: English
-
Careless People: Murder, Mayhem, and the Invention of The Great Gatsby
$24.00 Add to cartKirkus (STARRED review)
“Churchwell… has written an excellent book… she’s earned the right to play on [Fitzgerald’s] court. Prodigious research and fierce affection illumine every remarkable page.”… [more below]- Author: Churchwell, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: January 27 2015
- ISBN10: 0143126253
- Language: English
-
Like Love: Essays and Conversations
$20.00 Add to cartA career-spanning collection of inspiring, revelrous essays about art and artists
Like Love is a momentous, raucous collection of essays drawn from twenty years of Maggie Nelson’s brilliant work. These- Author: Nelson, Maggie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1644453363
- Language: English
-
The Jane Austen Insult Guide for Well-Bred Women: Serving Tea with a Side of Scorn
$15.00 Add to cartJane Austen always knows just what to say!
Why waste time inventing your own insults when you can borrow topnotch snipes from a literary genius? With The Jane Austen Insult Guide for Well-Bred Women, y- Author: Reed, Emily
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1250372941
- Language: English
-
Epic of the Earth: Reading Homer’s Iliad in the Fight for a Dying World
$30.00 Add to cartAn urgent study of Homer’s Iliad, exposing the beginnings of the ecological disaster we now face and facilitating our understanding of its history
The roots of today’s environmental catastrophe run d- Author: Hall, Edith
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 0300275587
- Language: English
-
I Want to Burn This Place Down: Essays
$26.99 Add to cartA debut essay collection by the inimitable cultural critic Maris Kreizman–an introspective, searing account of the life experiences that have pushed this former “good Democrat” even further to the po
- Author: Kreizman, Maris
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: July 01 2025
- ISBN10: 0063305828
- Language: English
-
The Novel Cure: From Abandonment to Zestlessness: 751 Books to Cure What Ails You
$24.00 Add to cart“Delightful… elegant prose and discussions that span the history of 2,000 years of literature.”–Publisher’s Weekly
A novel is a story transmitted from the novelist to the reader. It offers distra- Author: Berthoud, Ella
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: December 30 2014
- ISBN10: 0143125931
- Language: English
-
I Am the Arrow: The Life and Art of Sylvia Plath in Six Poems
$22.00 Add to cartAcclaimed translator Sarah Ruden shares a fresh, myth-busting reading of Sylvia Plath’s poems, revealing the full range and towering ambition of a great American poet.
One of our leading interpreters- Author: Ruden, Sarah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1598538136
- Language: English
-
The Re-Center Method Natural Diet Salad Book: Celebrate the Joy of Salad International Recipes from 7 Continents to boost your metabolism in Just 21 D
$31.99 Add to cartBetter Living Influencer, Lifestyle Impactor, and Creator of Being Elevated Lifestyle shares 156 exotics and tasty Salad recipes that will help you explore new exotic food experiences and save you tim
- Author: Argyle King, Hareldau
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 180
- Publish Date: April 19 2023
- ISBN10: 1950838250
- Language: English
-
Thucydides: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartVery Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
In 432 BCE the powerful city-state of Sparta on the peninsula of the Pelvsinnesus in southwestern Greece declared war on Athens, head of a mighty- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Roberts, Jennifer T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 27 2025
- ISBN10: 0192855824
- Language: English
-
The Well of Loneliness
$12.99 Add to cart‘If our love is a sin, then heaven must be full of such tender and selfless sinning as ours.’
The Well of Loneliness is among the most famous banned books in history. A pioneering work of literature,- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Hall, Radclyffe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: January 09 2025
- ISBN10: 0192894455
- Language: English
-
Penelope’s Bones: A New History of Homer’s World Through the Women Written Out of It
$30.00 Add to cartWeaving together literary and archaeological evidence, Emily Hauser illuminates the rich, intriguing lives of the real women behind Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey.
Achilles. Agamemnon. Odysseus. Hector. T- Author: Hauser, Emily
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: June 13 2025
- ISBN10: 0226839680
- Language: English
-
Did You Think My Yuri Was Just for Show?
$16.00 Add to cartSuzune Senmiya, a young voice actress, has been struggling for six months to get over the retirement of her favorite idol, Karin Kanezuki. One day, Karin appears as a new voice actress in Suzune’s age… [more below]
- Author: Asakura, Neru
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1975397665
- Language: English
-
Noble Fragments: The Gripping Story of the Antiquarian Bookseller Who Broke Up a Gutenberg Bible
$22.00 Add to cartOne hundred years ago, Gabriel Wells, a New York bookseller, committed a crime against history. He broke up the world’s greatest book, the Gutenberg Bible, and sold it off in individual pages. This is
- Author: Visontay, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1957363983
- Language: English
-
Chevrolet Summers, Dairy Queen Nights
$17.99 Add to cartNo writer in America has a better feel for the country’s rythms, richness, and rewards than bestselling author and syndicated columnist Bob Greene. With the color and depth of a novel, this treasury o
- Author: Greene, Bob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 20 2001
- ISBN10: 0060959665
- Language: English
