Literary Criticism
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
$14.99 Read moreThe Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is a timeless literary treasure that offers readers a fascinating glimpse into the life and mind of one of America’s most iconic founding fathers. In this engagi
- Author: Franklin, Benjamin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: December 25 2023
- ISBN10: 9358562145
- Language: English
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How to Read Literature Like a Professor [Third Edition]: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Understanding Literature, from the Great Gatsby to the Hat
$19.99 Add to cartThoroughly revised and expanded for a new generation of readers, this classic guide to enjoying literature to its fullest–a lively, enlightening, and entertaining introduction to a diverse range of w
- Author: Foster, Thomas C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 006330774X
- Language: English
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River of Books
$13.95 Add to cartA memoir of reading and working with books by the renowned Booklist editor.
With the infectious curiosity of an inveterate bibliophile and the prose of a fine stylist, Donna Seaman charts the course- Author: Seaman, Donna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 150
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1734643560
- Language: English
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Gilmore Girls: The Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge: The Official Guide to All the Books
$22.00 Add to cartWelcome to the ultimate TBR list! With meticulously researched book descriptions and hundreds of guided prompts and reading tips, The Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge is an officially licensed, one-of-a… [more below]
- Author: Berlin, Erika
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 0762486643
- Language: English
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Deep Reading: Practices to Subvert the Vices of Our Distracted, Hostile, and Consumeristic Age
$24.99 Read moreThis book helps readers develop practices that will result in deep, formative, and faithful reading so they can contribute to the flourishing of their communities and cultivate their own spiritual and… [more below]
- Author: Griffis, Rachel B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 28 2024
- ISBN10: 154096695X
- Language: English
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El Problema del Dolor
$12.99 Add to cartPor qu? debemos sufrir? “”Si Dios es bueno y todopoderoso, por qu? permite que suscriaturas sufran?”” Y qu? del sufrimiento de los animales, quienes ni se merecen el dolor ni pueden mejorarse por m
- Author: Lewis, C. S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 14 2006
- ISBN10: 0061140031
- Language: Spanish
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Dangerous Fictions: The Fear of Fantasy and the Invention of Reality
$27.00 Add to cartIn a political moment when social panics over literature are at their peak, Dangerous Fictions is a mind-expanding treatise on the nature of fictional stories as cultural battlegrounds for power.
Fict- Author: Gold, Lyta
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 1593767706
- Language: English
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The Practice of Enchantment: MythBlast Essays, 2020-2024
$14.99 Add to cartIt might often seem that the facts of life are hard, that we must stay ever alert for threats and pitfalls. The modern world seems to require strict rationality and pitiless focus, holding no place fo
- Author: Gardner, Joanna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: November 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1611780438
- Language: English
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Silence: Lectures and Writings
$26.95 Add to cartSilence, A Year from Monday, M, Empty Words and X (in this order) form the five parts of a series of books in which Cage tries, as he says, “to find a way of writing which comes from ideas, is not abo
- Author: Cage, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: July 06 2013
- ISBN10: 0819573655
- Language: English
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Selected Amazon Reviews
$32.95 Add to cartA book-length selection from Kevin Killian’s legendary corpus of more than two thousand product reviews posted on Amazon.com.
An enchanting roll of duct tape. Love Actually on Blu-ray Disc. The Toaste
- Series: Semiotext(e) / Native Agents
- Author: Killian, Kevin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: November 26 2024
- ISBN10: 1635902185
- Language: English
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Greatest Short Stories of Dostoevsky
$5.99 Add to cartExplore Fyodor Dostoevsky’s world in the Greatest Stories of Dostoevsky, a captivating collection of timeless tales delving into human complexities. From the poignant beauty of unrequited love in Wh… [more below]
- Author: Dostoevsky, Fyodor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: June 18 2024
- ISBN10: 9358567023
- Language: English
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Poetry as Enchantment: And Other Essays
$21.95 Add to cart“Gioia joins W. H. Auden, Randall Jarrell, and D. H. Lawrence in embracing criticism that is insightfully intellectual and surprisingly personal . . . Always a canny discussant of contemporary poetics
- Author: Gioia, Dana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1589881958
- Language: English
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Word Made Fresh: An Invitation to Poetry for the Church
$26.99 Add to cartHave you ever read a book that turned your world upside down? What about a poem?
Poetry has the power to enliven, challenge, change, and enrich our lives. But it can also feel intimidating, confusin- Author: Van Engen, Abram
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: June 25 2024
- ISBN10: 0802883605
- Language: English
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Comforting Myths: Concerning the Political in Art
$19.95 Add to cartA timely and urgent inquiry by one of global literature’s leading lights
In this concisely argued and illuminating book, the PEN/Faulkner Award-winning author Rabih Alameddine takes the subject of po- Series: Kapnick Foundation Distinguished Writer-In-Residence Lectures
- Author: Alameddine, Rabih
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 0813952514
- Language: English
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Classic Literature Made Simple: Fifty Great Books in a Nutshell
$17.95 Read moreIt has been said, quite correctly, that we write as well as we read. It can also be said that we think as well as we read. Since reading well is so important, it is good to get into the habit of read
- Author: Pearce, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 227
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1621647226
- Language: English
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Psychology According to Shakespeare: What You Can Learn about Human Nature from Shakespeare’s Great Plays
$28.95 Add to cartWilliam Shakespeare has undergone psychological analyses ever since Freud diagnosed Hamlet with an Oedipus complex. But now, two psychologists propose to turn the tables by telling how Shakespeare him
- Author: Zimbardo, Philip G.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: June 18 2024
- ISBN10: 1633889602
- Language: English
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Real Toads, Imaginary Gardens: On Reading and Writing Poetry Forensically
$22.99 Add to cartWhat makes reading a poem unlike reading anything else? In Real Toads, Imaginary Gardens, acclaimed poet and teacher Paisley Rekdal demonstrates how to observe the building blocks of a poem–including
- Author: Rekdal, Paisley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 0393881989
- Language: English
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Educated Imagination
$15.95 Add to cart“What good is the study of literature? Does it help us think more clearly, or feel more sensitively, or live a better life than we could without it?” Written in the relaxed and frequently humorous sty
- Series: CBC Massey Lectures
- Author: Frye, Northrop
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 0887845983
- Language: English
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The Bible Reexamined: Eve Is a Hero, Mary Is Not a Virgin, Jesus Is Not the Way
$19.95 Add to cart- Author: Tremba, Randall
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 194
- Publish Date: November 20 2024
- ISBN10: 9798218550936
- Language: English
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Rosamond Lehmann in Vegas
$20.00 Add to cartIn this new anthology of his columns for The Believer, Nick Hornby delves into the latest escapades from his reading life. Spanning the magazine’s Las Vegas era, these consistently hilarious dispatche… [more below]
- Author: Hornby, Nick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 1952119987
- Language: English
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