Literary Criticism
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The Masnavi, Book Six
$13.99 Add to cart‘Until effaced no one can actually
Rumi is the greatest mystic poet to ha
Enter the Court of Holy Majesty.
What is the meaning of the heavenly ascension?
Non-being: the mystics’ law school and religion.’- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Rumi, Jalal Al-Din
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: December 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0192874284
- Language: English
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Simulations
$13.95 Read moreBaudrillard’s bewildering thesis, a bold extrapolation on Ferdinand de Saussure’s general theory of general linguistics, is in fact a clinical vision of contemporary consumer societies where signs don… [more below]
- Series: Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents
- Author: Baudrillard, Jean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 01 1983
- ISBN10: 0936756020
- Language: English
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Spider-Man: Miles Morales
$14.95 Read moreExplore the Stories Behind the Legends
First introduced in 2011 by Brian Michael Bendis and Sara Pichelli, Miles Morales reconceived Spider-Man as African American and Latinx, and his debut marked a n- Series: Marvel Age of Comics
- Author: Womack, Ytasha L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: June 25 2026
- ISBN10: 9798765131633
- Language: English
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Early American Writing
$26.00 Add to cartDrawing materials from journals and diaries, political documents and religious sermons, prose and poetry, Giles Gunn’s anthology provides a panoramic survey of early American life and literature–incl… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Various
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: February 01 1994
- ISBN10: 0140390871
- Language: English
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Wolverine: Weapon X
$14.95 Add to cartExplore the Stories Behind the Legends
Naked, bloody, and screaming in pain – this is the Wolverine that faced readers in the story arc Weapon X. This was more than just the tale of how Wolverine got- Series: Marvel Age of Comics
- Author: Rugg, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 11 2026
- ISBN10: 9798765138762
- Language: English
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Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea: Journeys Through Ancient Literature
$19.99 Read moreIn this sharp and often entertaining tour through antiquity, Emily Wilson–whose renditions of Homer’s Odyssey and Iliad have captured a generation’s imagination–explores the complicated terrain of r
- Author: Wilson, Emily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 01 2026
- ISBN10: 1324099402
- Language: English
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The Folklore of Discworld: Legends, Myths, and Customs from the Discworld with Helpful Hints from Planet Earth
$22.00 Add to cartOFFERING INSIGHTS INTO ALL 40 DISCWORLD NOVELS
Find out
– Why cheeses roll down hills
– The hazards of treacle mining
– What’s so uncanny about the humble hare
-The origins of orcs (which are not the- Author: Pratchett, Terry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: March 25 2014
- ISBN10: 0804169039
- Language: English
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Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler
$18.99 Read moreA magnificent cultural biography that charts the life of one of our greatest writers, situating her alongside the key historical and social moments that shaped her work.
As the first Black woman to c
- Author: Morris, Susana M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 21 2026
- ISBN10: 0063211831
- Language: English
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Black Narratives of Slavery: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartVery Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
This Very Short Introduction brings together a wide range of narratives of slavery across a broad historical period to understand how Black people- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Patterson, Robert J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 21 2026
- ISBN10: 0197678378
- Language: English
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Outcast: A History of Leprosy, Humanity, and the Modern World
$19.00 Read moreThe story of how one misunderstood disease became the global blueprint for stigma and ostracization
Outcast: A History of Leprosy, Humanity and the Modern World reveals leprosy as the world’s foundati- Author: Basciano, Oliver
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 07 2026
- ISBN10: 1644454068
- Language: English
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The Magic Mountain
$16.98 Add to cart‘Hans Castorp filled his lungs with the pure mountain air–this fresh, light atmosphere that was so easy to inhale and held no scent of moisture, no content, no memories…’
Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mo- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Mann, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 832
- Publish Date: June 11 2026
- ISBN10: 0198889178
- Language: English
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Cookbooking: A Fan’s Guide
$30.00 Read moreAn eclectic, visually stunning pop-history, Cookbooking explores the most influential and beloved cookbooks through photographs, listicals, graphics, and snappy writing.
Subjects include: a visual h
- Author: Berne, Debbie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 18 2026
- ISBN10: 1958417874
- Language: English
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The Two Greatest Novels Ever Written: The Wisdom of the Lord of the Rings and the Brothers Karamazov
$24.95 Add to cartThe Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien and The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky are both widely regarded as two of the greatest novels ever written. The former, originally published in English
- Author: Kreeft, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: December 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1685781551
- Language: English
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Violent Phenomena: Essays Toward the Future of Literary Translation
$18.99 Add to cart“These essays, deftly blending the political and the personal, offer fresh, galvanizing, and passionate perspectives on literary translation.”–Jhumpa Lahiri
A manifesto in 22 essays, Violent Phenomena
- Author: Bhanot, Kavita
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 19 2026
- ISBN10: 006332122X
- Language: English
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Antigone
$12.00 Add to cartA stand-alone edition of Sophocles’s Antigone taken from Chicago’s renowned translations of the Greek tragedies.
Drawn from the authoritative third edition of the University of Chicago Press’s Comple- Author: Sophocles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 06 2026
- ISBN10: 022684465X
- Language: English
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Stephen Colbert’s Midnight Confessions
$18.00 Add to cartBased on the popular recurring sketch, Stephen Colbert “confesses” to all the shameful things we all think or do in secret…and have no intention of stopping anytime soon. This paperback will be publ… [more below]
- Author: Colbert, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 05 2026
- ISBN10: 1668240300
- Language: English
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Kafkaesque: From Jorge Luis Borges to Primo Levi, Ten Writers Who Translated Kafka and Transformed Twentieth-Century Literature
$27.99 Add to cartA lively inquiry into a literary genius, the translators who immortalized him, and what it means to cultivate a rich inner life in turbulent times
“What happens to a writer’s work when it is translated
- Author: Hruska, Maïa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 12 2026
- ISBN10: 0063486245
- Language: English
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Manga’s First Century: How Creators and Fans Made Japanese Comics, 1905-1989
$29.95 Add to cartA comprehensive English-language history of a beloved medium, Manga’s First Century tells the story of the artists and fans who built a cultural juggernaut.
Manga is the world’s most popular style of- Author: Horbinski, Andrea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0520403991
- Language: English
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Outlander and Scotland: Touchstones and Signposts
$28.95 Add to cartWhat is the ‘Outlander Effect’?
How does Outlander shape understanding of clan identity and Jacobite allegiance?
How does the series balance modern feminist perspectives with historical realities?
How do
- Author: Maley, Willy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 314
- Publish Date: February 02 2026
- ISBN10: 1804253340
- Language: English
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Nothing at All
$17.95 Add to cartAn atmospheric rumination on gendered violence, cosmic collapse, and colonialism.
From deep inside a black hole, comes Nothing at All–the space where everything collapses: form, genre, gender, and be… [more below]
- Author: Tapiero, Olivia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: January 27 2026
- ISBN10: 1643622986
- Language: English
