Literary Criticism
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Ballot
$14.95 Read moreObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
Ballot examines the psychological, cultural, and political significance of voting in an incre- Series: Object Lessons
- Author: Enjeti, Anjali
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 05 2026
- ISBN10: 9798765126196
- Language: English
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Talking Classics: The Shock of the Old
$22.50 Read moreThe incomparable Mary Beard is back, and she’s talking all things classics.
Why the ongoing fascination with the ancient world? This witty, approachable book asks why–for better or (sometimes) worse- Author: Beard, Mary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: May 20 2026
- ISBN10: 0226834247
- Language: English
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A Treacherous Secret Agent: How Literature Spoke Truth to Power During the Red Scare
$30.00 Read moreA world-renowned critic’s haunting and deeply researched account of the subversive acts of literary revenge performed during the Red Scare hearings of the 1950s
In the 1930s, ’40s, and ’50s, the House
- Author: Garber, Marjorie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 24 2026
- ISBN10: 0300282826
- Language: English
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Gilgamesh: A New Verse Translation
$25.00 Read moreOriginating nearly four thousand years ago in ancient Mesopotamia, the epic of Gilgamesh?tells the story of a tyrannical king and his wild counterpart, Enkidu, spawned by the gods to rein in the king’
- Author: Armitage, Simon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 14 2026
- ISBN10: 1631496689
- Language: English
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My America: Langston Hughes on Democracy
$29.99 Read moreBest known as the leader of the Harlem Renaissance, the celebrated poet and writer Langston Hughes believed in the power of art as resistance. What can we learn from his works today?
Randal M. Jelks d
- Author: Jelks, Randal Maurice
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 292
- Publish Date: April 07 2026
- ISBN10: 9798889832126
- Language: English
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Turn Where: A Geography of Home
$30.00 Read moreA probing essay collection that chronicles one woman’s complicated quest to find home in a fractured America, from the award-winning author of Field Study
“In Chet’la Sebree’s sensitive and tender han… [more below]- Author: Sebree, Chet’la
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 05 2026
- ISBN10: 059359584X
- Language: English
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Forced by Circumstance: Chicana Feminist Essays (1981-2024)
$31.95 Add to cartA landmark collection of the work of pioneering Chicana scholar, Norma Alarc?oacute;n.
Forced by Circumstance gathers in one volume foundational essays by, and interviews with one of the most highly
- Author: Alarcón, Norma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 458
- Publish Date: December 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1951874102
- Language: English
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I’ll Become a Villainess Who Goes Down in History, Vol. 4: Volume 4
$13.00 Read moreHer training complete, the Alicia who emerges is more confident and cunning than the girl who locked herself in that cottage years ago. But despite having pushed her magic to level 90, she’s still bar… [more below]
- Series: I’ll Become a Villainess Who Goes Down in History #4
- Author: Hoshi, Akari
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 24 2026
- ISBN10: 9798855408799
- Language: English
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After Oscar: The Legacy of a Scandal
$34.00 Read moreWritten by Oscar Wilde’s only grandson, After Oscar recounts the gripping story of Wilde and his enduring legacy.
“Fascinating…A magnificent blend of scholarship and memoir and a vital contribution t
- Author: Holland, Merlin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: April 07 2026
- ISBN10: 9798889661764
- Language: English
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Waiting for Yesterday: Pages from a Street Kid’s Life
$15.00 Add to cartAbout “Waiting for Yesterday: Pages from a Street Kid’s Life” by Michael Parenti: On these pages, fans of Michael Parenti’s insightful political and historical writings are given a revealing picture o… [more below]
- Series: VIA Folios
- Author: Parenti, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 170
- Publish Date: June 01 2013
- ISBN10: 1599540584
- Language: English
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Trace Elements: Conversations on the Project of Science Fiction and Fantasy
$31.99 Read moreFrom two of the most acclaimed writers in the field today, a groundbreaking look at how SF and fantasy writing–and reading!–work.
Jo Walton and Ada Palmer are two of the most innovative and insightf- Author: Walton, Jo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 24 2026
- ISBN10: 1250372607
- Language: English
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The Greatest Hunting Stories Ever Told: Twenty-Nine Unforgettable Tales
$16.95 Add to cartThe greatest hunting stories by Ben East, Patrick O’Brien, Thomas McGuane, Vance Bourjaily, William Faulkner, Thomas McIntyre, Robert C. Ruark, Havilah Babcock, Peter Hathaway Capstick, Charles Fergus… [more below]
- Series: Greatest
- Author: Underwood, Lamar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: September 01 2015
- ISBN10: 1493018523
- Language: English
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Around the Sun: Stories and Symbols from Across the World
$18.99 Read moreDiscover the universal allure of the hero’s journey captured in these global folktales, powerfully retold and gorgeously illustrated by the author and artist behind Tarot of the Divine and Beneath the… [more below]
- Author: Yoshitani, Yoshi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 05 2026
- ISBN10: 0593577892
- Language: English
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Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay
$20.00 Add to cartThirty years after the smashing success of Zelda, Nancy Milford returns with a stunning second act. Savage Beauty is the portrait of a passionate, fearless woman who obsessed American ever as she torm… [more below]
- Author: Milford, Nancy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: September 10 2002
- ISBN10: 0375760814
- Language: English
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Poetry Says It Better: Poems to Help You Wake Up
$26.99 Read more“A generous, heartfelt gift.” — Kirkus (STARRED review)
The legendary Academy Award-winning actress reflects on her love affair with poetry and makes us all believers.
We all want inspiration. We want
- Author: Burstyn, Ellen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 28 2026
- ISBN10: 0063387689
- Language: English
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The Journals of John Cheever
$21.00 Add to cartIn these journals, the experiences of one of the most renowned twentieth-century American writers come to life with fascinating, wholly revealing detail. – “A treasure-trove of riches.” —The New York… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Cheever, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: December 09 2008
- ISBN10: 0307387259
- Language: English
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Once Upon a Time There Was Truth: Or, Why We Need Fairy Tales
$28.00 Read moreEssays on imagining a better world in dark times, from one of our most esteemed scholars of fairy tales
Fairy tales take us to a world where magic is commonplace, where wishing works, where the confl- Author: Zipes, Jack
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: April 21 2026
- ISBN10: 0300282389
- Language: English
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The Evolution of Fire: Essays on Crisis and Becoming
$20.00 Read more“The Evolution of Fire is stunningly written–vivid in imagery, in the braiding together of language, and in the honoring of every person it shines a light on.”–Hanif Abdurraqib, author of There’s Al
- Author: Pelster, Angela
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: April 14 2026
- ISBN10: 1639551239
- Language: English
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The Bradbury Chronicles: The Life of Ray Bradbury
$16.99 Add to cartAccomplished journalist Sam Weller met the Ray Bradbury while writing a cover story for the Chicago Tribune Magazine and spent hundreds of hours interviewing Bradbury, his editors, family members, and
- Author: Weller, Sam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 21 2006
- ISBN10: 0060545844
- Language: English
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Open Closed Open: Poems
$17.00 Add to cartIn poems marked by tenderness and mischief, humanity and humor, Yehuda Amichai breaks open the grand diction of revered Jewish verses and casts the light of his own experience upon them. Here he … [more below]
- Author: Amichai, Yehuda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: November 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0156030500
- Language: English
