Literary Criticism
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The Selected Poems of Tu Fu: Expanded and Newly Translated by David Hinton
$18.95 Read moreTu Fu (712-770 C.E.) has for a millennium been widely considered the greatest poet in the Chinese tradition, and Hinton’s original translation played a key role in developing that reputation in Americ… [more below]
- Author: Fu, Tu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 25 2020
- ISBN10: 081122838X
- Language: English
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The Haunted Bookstore – Gateway to a Parallel Universe (Light Novel) Vol. 5
$14.99 Read moreSTORY OF THE HEART
Kaori and Suimei have finally realized how they feel about each other, but their love will have to wait–the bookstore is in terrible danger. One day, a fox spirit called Hakuzousu- Series: The Haunted Bookstore – Gateway to a Parallel Universe
- Author: Shinobumaru
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: May 23 2023
- ISBN10: 1638587035
- Language: English
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The Pleasure of the Text
$17.00 Add to cartWhat is it that we do when we enjoy a text? What is the pleasure of reading? The French critic and theorist Roland Barthes’s answers to these questions constitute “perhaps for the first time in the hi
- Author: Barthes, Roland
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: January 01 1975
- ISBN10: 0374521603
- Language: English
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Alphabet
$13.95 Read moreAwarded the American-Scandinavian PEN Translation Prize by Michael Hamburger, Susanna Nied’s translation of alphabet introduces Inger Christensen’s poetry to US readers for the first time. Born in 193… [more below]
- Author: Christensen, Inger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: May 17 2001
- ISBN10: 081121477X
- Language: English
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This Little Art
$20.00 Read moreAn essay with the reach and momentum of a novel, Kate Briggs’s This Little Art is a genre-bending song for the practice of literary translation, offering fresh, fierce and timely thinking on reading,
- Author: Briggs, Kate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: April 17 2018
- ISBN10: 1910695459
- Language: English
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The Case Files of Jeweler Richard (Light Novel) Vol. 1
$14.99 Add to cartThis highly acclaimed mystery tale about a young man teaming up with a handsome jewelry appraiser inspired a popular anime-and a manga adaptation (also from Seven Seas)!
Richard Ranasinghe de Vulpian- Series: The Case Files of Jeweler Richard (Light Novel)
- Author: Tsujimura, Nanako
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1638585776
- Language: English
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Autobiography of Death
$16.95 Add to cart*Winner of The Griffin International Poetry Prize and the Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Award*
The title section of Kim Hyesoon’s powerful new book, Autobiography of Death, consists of forty-nine po
- Author: Hyesoon, Kim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 27 2018
- ISBN10: 0811227340
- Language: English
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Magazine
$14.95 Read moreObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
For a century, magazines were the authors of culture and taste, of intelligence and policy –- Series: Object Lessons
- Author: Jarvis, Jeff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1501394959
- Language: English
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Time Come: Selected Prose
$27.99 Read more‘Sharp and still relevant’ – Zadie Smith
“A welcome addition to a sterling literary catalog” – Publishers Weekly
‘A mosaic of wise, urgent and moving pieces’ – Kit de Waal
‘A book to be savored and re-re- Author: Johnson, Linton Kwesi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: December 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1035006324
- Language: English
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Midnight Rambles: H. P. Lovecraft in Gotham
$32.95 Read moreA micro-biography of horror fiction’s most influential author and his love-hate relationship with New York City.
By the end of his life and near financial ruin, pulp horror writer Howard Phillips Love- Author: Goodwin, David J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1531504418
- Language: English
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Everybody: A Book about Freedom
$17.95 Read moreThe body is a source of pleasure and of pain, at once hopelessly vulnerable and radiant with power. In her ambitious, brilliant sixth book, Olivia Laing charts an electrifying course through the long
- Author: Laing, Olivia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 09 2022
- ISBN10: 1324022027
- Language: English
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Critical Essays: Volume 1: 1944-1948 Volume 1
$30.00 Read moreThis first book in a three-volume collection of Georges Bataille’s essays introduces English readers to his philosophical and critical writings.
In the aftermath of the Second World War, French think- Series: French List
- Author: Bataille, Georges
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 30 2023
- ISBN10: 180309060X
- Language: English
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The Language of Languages
$19.00 Read moreWith clear, conversational prose, this is the first book dedicated entirely to Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s writings on translation.
Through his many critically acclaimed novels, stories, essays, pl- Series: Africa List
- Author: Wa Thiong’o, Ngugi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 116
- Publish Date: February 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1803090715
- Language: English
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Dialogues and Essays
$18.95 Add to cartAlain de Botton’s bestselling The Consolations of Philosophy–later made into a six-part TV series–has helped popularize ancient philosophy and especially the work of Seneca. This superb volume offer… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Seneca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 31 2009
- ISBN10: 0199552401
- Language: English
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About Writing: Seven Essays, Four Letters, & Five Interviews
$29.95 Read moreEssential reading for the creative writer.
Award-winning novelist Samuel R. Delany has written a book for creative writers to place alongside E. M. Forster’s Aspects of the Novel and Lajos Egri’s Art o
- Author: Delany, Samuel R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: January 04 2006
- ISBN10: 0819567167
- Language: English
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Becoming Ezra Jack Keats
$25.00 Read moreBecoming Ezra Jack Keats offers the first complete biography of acclaimed children’s author and illustrator Ezra Jack Keats (1916-1983) intended for adult readers. Drawing extensively from his unpubli… [more below]
- Series: Willie Morris Books in Memoir and Biography
- Author: Butler, Virginia McGee
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: February 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1496844742
- Language: English
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Catching Fire: A Translation Diary
$15.95 Read moreAn energizing real-time journey through the translation of Never Did the Fire and the process of literary translation.
In Catching Fire, the translation of Diamela Eltit’s Never Did the Fire unfolds in
- Series: Untranslated
- Author: Hahn, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 205
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1913867250
- Language: English
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A Left-Handed Woman: Essays
$32.00 Read moreWINNER OF THE 2023 PEN/DIAMONSTEIN-SPIELVOGEL AWARD FOR THE ART OF THE ESSAY
A collection of essays from Judith Thurman, the National Book Award-winning biographer and New Yorker staff writer. Judith- Author: Thurman, Judith
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 0374607168
- Language: English
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A Raisin in the Sun and the Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window
$17.00 Read moreCollected together, two of the most electrifying classic masterpieces of the American theater, remarkable not only for their historical value but for their continued ability to engage the imagination … [more below]
- Author: Hansberry, Lorraine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 13 1995
- ISBN10: 0679755314
- Language: English
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Only a Voice: Essays
$29.95 Read moreEssays on politics, power, and culture from one of America’s most eminent critics
In Only a Voice, George Scialabba examines the chasm between modernity’s promise of progress and the sobering reality- Author: Scialabba, George
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1804292001
- Language: English
