Literary Criticism
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Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing
$15.95 Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of The Handmaid’s Tale and The Testaments “A clear-eyed glance into the shadows where writers work and live.” —The Washington Post Book World
In this wise and irresistibl- Author: Atwood, Margaret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 09 2003
- ISBN10: 1400032601
- Language: English
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Steal Away: Selected and New Poems
$22.00 Add to cartNow in paperback, Steal Away presents C.D. Wright’s best lyrics, narratives, prose poems, and odes with new “retablos” and a bracing vigil on incarceration. Long admired as a fearless poet writing aut
- Author: Wright, C. D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 01 2003
- ISBN10: 1556591942
- Language: English
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History and Utopia
$17.99 Read more“Only a monster can allow himself the luxury of seeing things as they are,” writes E. M. Cioran, the Romanian-born philosopher who has rightly been compared to Samuel Beckett.
In History and Utopia, C- Author: Cioran, E. M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: January 01 2015
- ISBN10: 1628724250
- Language: English
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Everyday Emerson: A Year of Wisdom
$19.99 Read moreDaily inspiration from American philosopher and transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson
Featuring excerpts from Ralph Waldo Emerson’s essays, poems, and lectures, Everyday Emerson offers 365 snippets of- Author: Emerson, Ralph Waldo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1250828791
- Language: English
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Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces, 2004 to 2021
$30.00 Read moreIn this brilliant selection of essays, the award-winning, best-selling author of The Handmaid’s Tale and The Testaments offers her funny, erudite, endlessly curious, and uncannily prescient take on ev… [more below]
- Author: Atwood, Margaret
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: March 01 2022
- ISBN10: 038554748X
- Language: English
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Sylvia Plath Day by Day, Volume 1: 1932-1955
$50.00 Read moreSince Sylvia Plath’s death in 1963, she has become the subject of a constant stream of books, biographies, and articles. She has been hailed as a groundbreaking poet for her starkly beautiful poems in… [more below]
- Author: Rollyson, Carl
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 14 2023
- ISBN10: 149683500X
- Language: English
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To Float in the Space Between: A Life and Work in Conversation with the Life and Work of Etheridge Knight
$25.00 Read more“Hayes leaves resonance cleaving the air.” –NPR
In these works based on his Bagley Wright lectures on the poet Etheridge Knight, Terrance Hayes offers not quite a biography but a compilation “as specu
- Series: Bagley Wright Lecture
- Author: Hayes, Terrance
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 04 2018
- ISBN10: 1940696615
- Language: English
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Hölderlin’s Madness: Chronicle of a Dwelling Life, 1806-1843
$25.00 Read moreOne of Europe’s greatest living philosophers, Giorgio Agamben, analyzes the life and work of one of Europe’s greatest poets, Friedrich Hölderlin.
What does it mean to inhabit a place or a self? What- Series: Italian List
- Author: Agamben, Giorgio
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: March 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1803091150
- Language: English
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Image-Music-Text
$19.00 Add to cartThese essays, as selected and translated by Stephen Heath, are among the finest writings Barthes ever published on film and photography, and on the phenomena of sound and image. The classic pieces “In
- Author: Barthes, Roland
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 01 1978
- ISBN10: 0374521360
- Language: English
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The Thief and the Dogs
$16.00 Read moreNaguib Mahfouz’s haunting novella of post-revolutionary Egypt combines a vivid pychological portrait of an anguished man with the suspense and rapid pace of a detective story.
After four years in priso
- Author: Mahfouz, Naguib
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 03 2008
- ISBN10: 0385264623
- Language: English
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If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries What Am I Doing in the Pits?: Bestselling Author of Family–The Ties That Bind…and Gag!
$9.99 Read more“See if you can read a paragraph without laughing out loud.”
Art Buchwald
The enchanting lady of laughter has done it again–this time taking a hilarious swipe at husbands, honeymoons, tennis elbow, mar… [more below]- Author: Bombeck, Erma
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 12 1985
- ISBN10: 0449208397
- Language: English
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A Family Guide to Narnia: Biblical Truths in C.S. Lewis’s the Chronicles of Narnia
$16.99 Add to cartDo you read The Chronicles of Narnia sensing that the stories are full of biblical parallels, even if you’re not always sure what they are or where to find them? This user-friendly companion to The Ch
- Author: Ditchfield, Christin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: July 07 2003
- ISBN10: 1581345151
- Language: English
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Prophets
$45.00 Read more“A brilliant study of the Hebrew prophets, one of the most penetrating works . . . [of] our time.”– Will Herberg
From the legendary twentieth-century Jewish Theologian and author of Man is Not Alone a
- Author: Heschel, Abraham J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: December 05 2023
- ISBN10: 0063347962
- Language: English
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Book Girl: A Journey Through the Treasures and Transforming Power of a Reading Life
$16.99 Read moreWhen you hear a riveting story, does it thrill your heart and stir your soul? Do you hunger for truth and goodness? Do you secretly relate to Belle’s delight in the library in Beauty and the Beast?
If … [more below]
- Author: Clarkson, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 04 2018
- ISBN10: 1496425804
- Language: English
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A Place Like Mississippi: A Journey Through a Real and Imagined Literary Landscape
$27.95 Add to cart“This is the book all of us Mississippi writers, dead and alive, need to read. It is indeed a strange but glorious sensation to see your literary and geographic lineage so beautifully and rigorously e
- Author: Eubanks, W. Ralph
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: March 16 2021
- ISBN10: 1604699582
- Language: English
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Steeped in Stories: Timeless Children’s Novels to Refresh Our Tired Souls
$24.99 Read more“Ms. Perkins personal anec-dotes are a delight.” –Wall Street Journal
The stories we read as children shape us for the rest of our lives. But it is never too late to discover that transformative spar
- Author: Perkins, Mitali
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 31 2021
- ISBN10: 1506469108
- Language: English
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Tolkien’s Modern Reading: Middle-Earth Beyond the Middle Ages
$29.95 Read moreTolkien’s Modern Reading addresses the claim that Tolkien “read very little modern fiction, and took no serious notice of it.” This claim, made by one of his first biographers, has led to the widely a… [more below]
- Author: Ordway, Holly
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: January 25 2021
- ISBN10: 1943243727
- Language: English
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Adonis: Selected Poems
$20.00 Read moreThe first major career-spanning collection of the poems of Adonis, widely acknowledged as the most important poet working in Arabic today
“Poetry for [Adonis] is not merely a genre or an art form but- Series: Margellos World Republic of Letters
- Author: Adonis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 24 2012
- ISBN10: 0300181256
- Language: English
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The Secret Life of the American Musical: How Broadway Shows Are Built
$20.00 Read moreA New York Times Bestseller
For almost a century, Americans have been losing their hearts and losing their minds in an insatiable love affair with the American musical. It often begins in childhood in- Author: Viertel, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 14 2017
- ISBN10: 0374536899
- Language: English
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Out of Africa: And Shadows on the Grass
$19.00 Read moreSet in Africa, it is the story of Dinesen’s years in Africa–together with Shadows on the Grass.
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Dinesen, Isak
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: October 23 1989
- ISBN10: 0679724753
- Language: English
