Literary Criticism
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On Frost and Eliot
$25.95 Read moreNamed a 2025 Outstanding Academic Title by the American Library Association’s Choice Reviews
Robert Frost and T.S. Eliot have received ample attention as major American poets of the last century. But t
- Author: Pritchard, William H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 1589882024
- Language: English
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Paule Marshall: A Writer’s Life
$30.00 Add to cartAn elegant biography of a prescient author whose novels portray Black women’s experiences across the African diaspora
Growing up in World War II-era Brooklyn among West Indian immigrants, Paule Marsha- Series: Black Lives
- Author: Washington, Mary Helen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: February 10 2026
- ISBN10: 0300253850
- Language: English
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Sister Love: The Letters of Audre Lorde and Pat Parker 1974-1989
$14.95 Read more- Series: Sapphic Classic
- Author: Lorde, Audre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 242
- Publish Date: February 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1938334299
- Language: English
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Salvage: Readings from the Wreck
$19.00 Add to cartOne of Literary Hub‘s most anticipated books of 2024. Winner of the 2025 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature. Finalist for the 2025 Zora Awards.
Dionne Brand explores English and American liter- Author: Brand, Dionne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 27 2026
- ISBN10: 1250397723
- Language: English
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The Words of Martin Luther King, Jr.
$12.99 Add to cartCreated as a living memorial to the philosophies and ideas of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., this essential volume includes more than 120 quotations from the greatest civil rights leader’s speeches, ser
- Series: Newmarket Words of
- Author: King, Martin Luther, III
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: March 22 2001
- ISBN10: 1557044503
- Language: English
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Banning Books in America: Not a How-To
$24.00 Add to cartThis is a book about banned books in the U.S. – about reading them, teaching them, and lending them under the shadow of political pressure not to.
Banning Books in America features novelists on bannin- Author: Cohen, Samuel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 19 2026
- ISBN10: 9798765138076
- Language: English
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Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out
$22.99 Add to cart*NATIONAL BESTSELLER*
*A WGN Radio Best Book of 2024*
*A Good Housekeeping Reads pick*A hilarious and incisive exploration of the joys of reading from a “beloved and wonderful writer” (George Saunders),… [more below]
- Author: Reed, Shannon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 1335453512
- Language: English
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Lipstick
$14.95 Read moreObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
From Revlon to Glossier, from Marilyn to Gaga, lipstick is as shape-shifting and unwieldy as- Series: Object Lessons
- Author: G’Sell, Eileen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: February 19 2026
- ISBN10: 9798765135587
- Language: English
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The Body of Language: Esperruquancluzelubelouzerirelu
$25.00 Add to cartAn erudite exploration of transgressive language from the Renaissance by one of Europe’s greatest living philosophers.
This book explores how early modern authors broke linguistic boundaries, creatin
- Series: Italian List
- Author: Agamben, Giorgio
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: November 22 2025
- ISBN10: 1803094761
- Language: English
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T.S. Eliot: An Imperfect Life
$45.00 Add to cartT. S. Eliot was arguably the greatest English-language poet of the twentieth century. In poems such as The Waste Land and Four Quartets, he spoke directly to his times, and his essays influenced a who
- Author: Gordon, Lyndall
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: January 27 2026
- ISBN10: 1324123230
- Language: English
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Origin Myths of the Stars: The Handbook of the Greek Zodiac Origin Myths & Their Symbolic Medicine
$15.99 Add to cartHow did a Scorpion become a constellation? Who lifted the Archer into the sky? Which timeless tales gave birth to the twelve zodiac signs-and when did we forget we ever knew their origins?
In ancient t… [more below]
- Author: Michelle, Colby
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: October 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1038351324
- Language: English
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Everyday Apocalypse: Art, Empire, and the End of the World
$24.95 Add to cartEveryday Apocalypse recovers the root meaning of the term apocalypse (revelation) to use the concept as a lens through which art and other acts of creative nonviolence that often go unseen may be brou… [more below]
- Author: Dark, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 180
- Publish Date: October 15 2025
- ISBN10: 0826507956
- Language: English
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Thinking Through Shakespeare
$35.00 Add to cartHow Shakespeare’s exploration of central human questions–about identity, politics, religion and right and wrong–explains his lasting power, popularity and relevance
In the eighteenth century, Samuel- Author: Womersley, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: March 10 2026
- ISBN10: 0691154104
- Language: English
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If This Be Magic: The Unlikely Art of Shakespeare in Translation
$35.00 Read moreHow does Shakespeare remain Shakespeare when every word is changed? In this playful, meditative exploration of translating the world’s most beloved playwright, Daniel Hahn guides us through the magic … [more below]
- Author: Hahn, Daniel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 21 2026
- ISBN10: 0593801660
- Language: English
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How to Read Nancy: The Elements of Comics in Three Easy Panels
$29.99 Add to cartEverything that you need to know about reading, making, and understanding comics can be found in a single Nancy strip by Ernie Bushmiller from August 8, 1959. Paul Karasik and Mark Newgarden’s groundb… [more below]
- Author: Karasik, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 276
- Publish Date: October 10 2017
- ISBN10: 1606993615
- Language: English
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Fire: From “A Journal of Love” the Unexpurgated Diary of Ana?s Nin, 1934-1937
$25.99 Add to cartIn this “erotically charged”(Publishers Weekly) diary that picks up where Incest left off, Nin chronicles a restless search for fulfillment that leads her to New York City-“that brilliant giant toy” –
- Author: Nin, Anaïs
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: June 16 2011
- ISBN10: 0156003902
- Language: English
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The Child That Books Built: A Life in Reading
$20.00 Add to cartIn The Child That Books Built, this extended love letter to children’s books and the wonders they perform, Francis Spufford makes a confession: books were his mother, his father, his school.
Reading- Author: Spufford, Francis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 213
- Publish Date: December 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0312421842
- Language: English
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Orality and Literacy: 30th Anniversary Edition
$57.99 Add to cartThis classic work explores the vast differences between oral and literate cultures and offers a brilliantly lucid account of the intellectual, literary and social effects of writing, print and electro
- Series: New Accents
- Author: Ong, Walter J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: September 27 2012
- ISBN10: 0415538386
- Language: English
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James Joyce: A Political Life
$45.00 Read moreA major new biography that reveals how politics profoundly shaped Joyce’s life, thought and writings
The young James Joyce (1882-1941) was forged in the smithy of Irish political controversies, and he- Author: Callanan, Frank
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 944
- Publish Date: March 24 2026
- ISBN10: 0691227977
- Language: English
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Sinclair Lewis: The 1920s and the Shaping of American Identity
$35.00 Add to cart- Author: Agran, Edward Gale
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: December 02 2025
- ISBN10: 0881469963
- Language: English
