Literary Criticism
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El Fuego de la Imaginación: Libros, Escenarios, Pantallas Y Museos. Obra Periodí Stica 1 / The Fire of Imagination. Journalistic Works 1
$24.95 Read moreLA CULTURA, PROTAGONISTA DEL PRIMER VOLUMEN DE LA OBRA PERIODÍSTICA DEL PREMIO NOBEL DE LITERATURA MARIO VARGAS LLOSA
«No hay cultura genuina sin pluralidad de ideas y sin crítica
Durante más- Series: Obra Periodística
- Author: Llosa, Mario Vargas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 792
- Publish Date: February 14 2023
- ISBN10: 6073823584
- Language: Spanish
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Who We’re Reading When We’re Reading Murakami
$17.95 Read moreHow did a loner destined for a niche domestic audience become one of the most famous writers alive? A “fascinating” look at the “business of bringing a best-selling novelist to a global audience” (The… [more below]
- Author: Karashima, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1593765894
- Language: English
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When Death Takes Something from You Give It Back: Carl’s Book
$16.95 Add to cartFinalist for the 2019 Kirkus Prize in Nonfiction
Longlisted for the National Book Award for Translated Literature
Longlisted for the 2020 PEN Translation Award
An unflinchingly raw and lyrical explora
- Author: Aidt, Naja Marie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: April 06 2021
- ISBN10: 1566895936
- Language: English
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Take Arms Against a Sea of Troubles: The Power of the Reader’s Mind Over a Universe of Death
$22.00 Read more“The great poems, plays, novels, stories teach us how to go on living. . . . Your own mistakes, accidents, failures at otherness beat you down. Rise up at dawn and read something that matters as soon … [more below]
- Author: Bloom, Harold
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: October 12 2021
- ISBN10: 0300261535
- Language: English
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Taking a Long Look: Essays on Culture, Literature and Feminism in Our Time
$19.95 Read more“For nearly fifty years, Vivian Gornick’s essays have explored feminism and writing, literature and culture, politics and personal experience. Drawing on writing from the course of her career, this bo… [more below]
- Author: Gornick, Vivian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 10 2022
- ISBN10: 1839765097
- Language: English
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The Art of Haiku: Its History Through Poems and Paintings by Japanese Masters
$29.95 Read more- Author: Addiss, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 29 2022
- ISBN10: 1645471217
- Language: English
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Agatha Christie: First Lady of Crime
$17.95 Read moreFrom Poirot to Miss Marple, from The Mousetrap to Witness for the Prosecution, this a fascinating look at the life and work of Agatha Christie, the world’s most successful and popular crime writer.
Ag- Author: Keating, H. R. F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1639362940
- Language: English
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The Sidney Psalter: The Psalms of Sir Philip and Mary Sidney
$18.95 Read moreAmong the most accomplished lyrics of the English Renaissance, The Sidney Psalter influenced poets from Donne and Herbert to Milton and beyond. It turned the well-known biblical psalms into sophistica… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Sidney, Sir Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 11 2009
- ISBN10: 0199217939
- Language: English
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An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic
$18.00 Add to cartA New York Times/PBS NewsHour Book Club Pick
From award-winning memoirist and critic, and bestselling author of The Lost: a deeply moving tale of a father and son’s transformative journey in reading-- Author: Mendelsohn, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 31 2018
- ISBN10: 0345806212
- Language: English
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Night Soldiers
$19.00 Add to cartBulgaria, 1934. A young man is murdered by the local fascists. His brother, Khristo Stoianev, is recruited into the NKVD, the Soviet secret intelligence service, and sent to Spain to serve in its civi… [more below]
- Author: Furst, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: July 09 2002
- ISBN10: 0375760008
- Language: English
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On Reading
$29.95 Add to cartAndr Kert sz (1894-1985) was one of the most inventive, influential, and prolific photographers in the medium’s history. This small volume, first published in 1971, became one of his signature works…. [more below]
- Author: Kertész, André
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0393066568
- Language: English
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The Wheel of Time Companion: The People, Places, and History of the Bestselling Series
$39.99 Read moreThe Wheel of Time is now an original series on Prime Video, starring Rosamund Pike as Moiraine!
Since its debut in 1990, The Wheel of Time(R) by Robert Jordan has captivated millions of readers around- Series: Wheel of Time #16
- Author: Jordan, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 816
- Publish Date: November 03 2015
- ISBN10: 0765314614
- Language: English
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Selected Poems
$19.95 Read moreJames McGavran’s new translation of Vladimir Mayakovsky’s poetry is the first to fully capture the Futurist and Soviet agitprop artist’s voice. Because of his work as a propagandist for the Sovie… [more below]
- Series: Northwestern World Classics
- Author: Mayakovsky, Vladimir
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 404
- Publish Date: June 30 2013
- ISBN10: 0810129078
- Language: English
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Relic
$14.95 Read moreObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
Every culture, every religion, every era has enshrined otherwise regular objects with a signi- Series: Object Lessons
- Author: Simon, Ed
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: January 11 2024
- ISBN10: 9798765102282
- Language: English
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The Art of Time in Memoir: Then, Again
$15.00 Read moreThe Art Of series is a new line of books reinvigorating the practice of craft and criticism. Each book will be a brief, witty, and useful exploration of fiction, nonfiction, or poetry by a writer impa
- Series: Art of
- Author: Birkerts, Sven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 194
- Publish Date: December 26 2007
- ISBN10: 1555974899
- Language: English
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What Moves at the Margin: Selected Nonfiction
$19.95 Read moreWhat Moves at the Margin collects three decades of Toni Morrison’s writings about her work, her life, literature, and American society. The works included in this volume range from 1971, when Morrison… [more below]
- Author: Morrison, Toni
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 212
- Publish Date: March 25 2008
- ISBN10: 160473017X
- Language: English
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This Is Shakespeare
$19.00 Read moreAn electrifying new study that investigates the challenges of the Bard’s inconsistencies and flaws, and focuses on revealing–not resolving–the ambiguities of the plays and their changing topicality
… [more below]- Author: Smith, Emma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 16 2021
- ISBN10: 1984898159
- Language: English
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Oh, to Be a Painter!
$15.00 Read moreThe twentieth volume in the renowned ekphrasis series, this collection of Virginia Woolf’s writings on the visual arts offers a whole new perspective on the revolutionary author.
Despite wide interest- Series: Ekphrasis
- Author: Woolf, Virginia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 30 2021
- ISBN10: 1644230585
- Language: English
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The Uncollected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick
$18.95 Read moreEssays on music, art, pop culture, literature, and politics by the renowned essayist and observer of contemporary life, now collected together for the first time.
The Uncollected Essays of Elizabeth H- Author: Hardwick, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 24 2022
- ISBN10: 1681376237
- Language: English
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Selected Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay: An Annotated Edition
$25.00 Read moreThis beautifully produced first annotated edition of Edna St. Vincent Millay’s oeuvre re-presents the work of the Jazz Age’s most famous poet
More than sixty years after her death, the Pulitzer Prize- Author: Millay, Edna St Vincent
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 0300264666
- Language: English
