Literary Criticism
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Ford Madox Ford
$25.00 Read moreA critical biography of the great modernist editor and novelist.
Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939) lived among several of the most important artists and writers of his time. Raised by Pre-Raphaelites and- Series: Critical Lives
- Author: Saunders, Max
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: May 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1789147018
- Language: English
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The Man of the Crowd: Edgar Allan Poe and the City
$25.27 Read more- Author: Van Parys, Michelle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 069124796X
- Language: English
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The Mandorla Letters: For the Hopeful
$29.95 Read moreAfrofuturist memoir on jazz, collaboration, and the search for collective well-being
Part memoir, part manifesto, part Black speculative novella, The Mandorla Letters: for the hopeful blurs boundarie- Author: Mitchell Gantt, Nicole
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1737302829
- Language: English
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Everything I Know about Love I Learned from Romance Novels
$17.99 Read moreTake a dashing hero with a heart of gold and a mullet of awesome. Add a heroine with a bustle and the will to kick major butt. Then include enough contrivances to keep them fighting while getting them
- Author: Wendell, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 01 2011
- ISBN10: 1402254490
- Language: English
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The Art of Daring: Risk, Restlessness, Imagination
$15.00 Read moreThe award-winning poet Carl Phillips’s invaluable essays on poetry, the tenth volume in the celebrated Art of series of books on the craft of writing
In seven insightful essays, Carl Phillips meditate- Series: Art Of…
- Author: Phillips, Carl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: August 05 2014
- ISBN10: 1555976816
- Language: English
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Winter Garden
$17.00 Add to cartFacing death from cancer, Neruda wrote no book more direct and passionate in its language, and this translation–the first time these poems appeared in English–was cited by Bloomsbury Review as a Boo
- Series: Kagean Book
- Author: Neruda, Pablo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 01 2002
- ISBN10: 1556591675
- Language: English
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Uncollected Works: Oscar Acosta
$14.95 Read moreThis milestone collection gathers unpublished stories, essays, letters, poems and a teleplay written by Acosta (1935-1974), the legendary Chicano attorney, political activist and writer, between the e… [more below]
- Author: Acosta, Oscar Zeta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: May 01 1996
- ISBN10: 1558850996
- Language: English
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Unavowable Community
$14.95 Add to cartThe Unavowable Community is an inquiry into the nature and possibility of community, asking whether there can be a community of individuals that is truly “communal.” The problem, for Blanchot, is that… [more below]
- Author: Blanchot, Maurice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 90
- Publish Date: June 01 2006
- ISBN10: 1581771045
- Language: English
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On Being Blue: A Philosophical Inquiry
$15.95 Read moreOn Being Blue is a book about everything blue–sex and sleaze and sadness, among other things–and about everything else. It brings us the world in a word as only William H. Gass, among contemporary A… [more below]
- Series: New York Review Books (Paperback)
- Author: Gass, William H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: March 11 2014
- ISBN10: 1590177185
- Language: English
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The Selected Poems of Osip Mandelstam
$16.95 Read moreOsip Mandelstam is a central figure not only in modern Russian but in world poetry, the author of some of the most haunting and memorable poems of the twentieth century. A contemporary of Anna Akhmato… [more below]
- Series: New York Review Books Classics
- Author: Mandelstam, Osip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 31 2004
- ISBN10: 1590170911
- Language: English
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Blackspace: On the Poetics of an Afrofuture
$18.95 Add to cartBlack artists of the avant-garde have always defined the future.
Blackspace: On the Poetics of an Afrofuture is the culmination of six years of multidisciplinary research by trans poet and curator Ana- Series: Undercurrents
- Author: Duplan, Anaïs
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 126
- Publish Date: October 06 2020
- ISBN10: 1939568323
- Language: English
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Try Not to Be Strange: The Curious History of the Kingdom of Redonda
$18.95 Read moreShortlisted for the 2023 Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book Prize
On his fifteenth birthday, in the summer of 1880, future science-fiction writer M.P. Shiel sailed with his father and the local bish
- Author: Hingston, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 302
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 1771964154
- Language: English
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Of Solids and Surds: Notes for No? Sturgeon, Marilyn Hacker, Josh Lukin, MIA Wolff, Bill Stribling, and Bob White
$18.00 Read moreIn the fourth volume in the Why I Write series, the iconic Samuel Delany remembers fifty years of writing and shaping the world of speculative fiction
“Delany’s prismatic output is among the most sign- Series: Why I Write
- Author: Delany, Samuel R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 0300250401
- Language: English
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Toni Morrison’s Spiritual Vision: Faith, Folktales, and Feminism in Her Life and Literature
$26.00 Read moreWhen Toni Morrison died in August 2019, she was widely remembered for her contributions to literature as an African American woman, an identity she wore proudly. Morrison was clear that she wrote from
- Author: Nittle, Nadra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 05 2021
- ISBN10: 150647151X
- Language: English
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The Lives of Literature: Reading, Teaching, Knowing
$49.92 Read moreA passionate, wry, and personal book about how the greatest works of literature illuminate our lives
Why do we read literature? For Arnold Weinstein, the answer is clear: literature allows us to becom- Author: Weinstein, Arnold
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 18 2022
- ISBN10: 0691177309
- Language: English
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Americanon: An Unexpected U.S. History in Thirteen Bestselling Books
$18.00 Read more“An elegant, meticulously researched, and eminently readable history of the books that define us as Americans. For history buffs and book-lovers alike, McHugh offers us a precious gift.”–Jake Halpern… [more below]
- Author: McHugh, Jess
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 07 2022
- ISBN10: 1524746649
- Language: English
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Still No Word from You: Notes in the Margin
$26.00 Read moreFinalist for the Vermont Book Award
A new collection of pieces on literature and life by the author of Am I Alone Here?, a fin
Finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay- Author: Orner, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1646221362
- Language: English
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Well-Kept Ruins
$21.00 Read moreA genre-defying book from one of France’s most well-known philosopher-writers.
In the Lower Saxony region of northwestern Germany sits the city of Osnabr?k. This is where, in 1648, the Peace of Westp- Series: French List
- Author: Cixous, Hélène
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 156
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1803090596
- Language: English
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Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters
$16.00 Read moreEach working day from January 29 to November 1, 1951, John Steinbeck warmed up to the work of writing East of Eden with a letter to the late Pascal Covici, his friend and editor at The Viking Press. I… [more below]
- Author: Steinbeck, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: December 01 1990
- ISBN10: 0140144188
- Language: English
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Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992
$18.00 Add to cartFrom an acclaimed playwright comes “an American masterpiece” (Newsweek) about the 1992 Los Angeles riots.
Twilight is a stunning work of “documentary theater” that explores the devastating human impac… [more below]- Author: Smith, Anna Deavere
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 15 1994
- ISBN10: 0385473761
- Language: English
