Literary Criticism
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How Sondheim Can Change Your Life
$19.00 Add to cartAn “incisive…heartwarming” (The New York Times Book Review) exploration of the powerful and universal lessons from the music and lyrics of Stephen Sondheim, the genius behind such musical theater ma… [more below]
- Author: Schoch, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1668030608
- Language: English
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The Jane Austen Romance Guide for Well-Bred Women: Spotting Red Flags from Across the Ballroom
$15.00 Read moreNo one knows red flags like Jane Austen!
Why settle for mediocre dating advice when you can consult the queen of the meet-cute? With The Jane Austen Romance Guide for Well-Bred Women, you can effortle- Author: Reed, Emily
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: December 30 2025
- ISBN10: 1250420903
- Language: English
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The Murder Game: Play, Puzzles and the Golden Age
$30.00 Add to cart- Author: Curran, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: January 27 2026
- ISBN10: 0008679886
- Language: English
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Great Books for Good Men: Reflections on Literature and Manhood
$17.95 Add to cartOriginally commissioned by Exodus 90, the pioneering men’s app, these brief but stirring reflections by acclaimed writer Joseph Pearce show how great literature–including poetry–can help every Catho
- Author: Pearce, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: July 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1621647404
- Language: English
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Inversion: Gay Life After the Homosexual
$24.00 Add to cartWith contributions by Blake Smith, Roger Lancaster, David Moulton, Stephen Adubato, Amir Naaman, Ran Heilbrunn, Pierre d’Alancaisez, Travis Jeppesen, Oliver Davis, Yotam Feldman, and Marcas Lancaster.
- Author: D’Alancaisez, Pierre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 460
- Publish Date: November 12 2025
- ISBN10: 1068450703
- Language: English
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Reader Bot: What Happens When AI Reads and Why It Matters
$28.00 Add to cartWhat happens to human reading when AI bots can do it for us?
Explosive developments in artificial intelligence have awed everyday users with the technology’s ability to draw, do computer coding, and e
- Author: Baron, Naomi S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 292
- Publish Date: January 20 2026
- ISBN10: 1503643948
- Language: English
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Doctor Strange: A Decade of Dark Magic
$14.95 Add to cartExplore the Stories Behind the Legends
Enter a world where reality bends, and magic reigns supreme. From psychedelic dimensions to counterculture cool, Doctor Strange was unlike anything else in comic- Series: Marvel Age of Comics
- Author: Moore, Stuart
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 9798765137543
- Language: English
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Hannibal Lecter: A Life
$30.00 Add to cartDrawing from exclusive interviews and previously unseen archival materials, this one-of-its-kind biography of Hannibal Lecter documents the cannibal’s journey from terrifying villain to unexpectedly a… [more below]
- Author: Raftery, Brian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 10 2026
- ISBN10: 1668070588
- Language: English
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Oedipus Tyrannos: A Norton Critical Edition
$14.61 Read moreEmily Wilson’s superb translation of Sophocles’ best-known play, accompanied by her engaging introduction, translator’s note, and explanatory footnotes.
Comparative ancient sources that provide insigh… [more below]
- Series: Norton Critical Editions
- Author: Sophocles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 08 2021
- ISBN10: 0393655148
- Language: English
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On Morrison
$32.00 Add to cartAn illuminating, electrifying exploration of the work of Toni Morrison by an award-winning novelist and Harvard professor
“As gripping as it is intellectually brilliant . . . a classic.”–Cathy Park H- Author: Serpell, Namwali
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 17 2026
- ISBN10: 059373291X
- Language: English
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The Giggle-A-Day Joke Book
$7.99 Add to cartA jokebook written by children in conjunction with Child of Achievement Awards with celebrity jokes from John Major, Gloria Hunniford, Jonny Searle, Matthew Kelly and others.
A new collection of jokes,
- Author: The Child of Achievement(tm) Awards
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: July 02 2001
- ISBN10: 0007115911
- Language: English
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Agatha Christie: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartVery Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
Agatha Christie is a global bestseller. Her work has been translated into over 100 languages and adapted for stage and screen. Christie’s writing l… [more below]- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Plain, Gill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 23 2025
- ISBN10: 0198863748
- Language: English
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Beautiful and Ugly Too
$19.95 Read moreBeautiful and Ugly Too is a firsthand account of life in the Crescent City told through poetry and essays. A third-generation New Orleanian, author Chuck Perkins was born and raised in the Pigeon Town… [more below]
- Author: Perkins, Chuck
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 180
- Publish Date: July 29 2025
- ISBN10: 1959569244
- Language: English
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Memory
$17.95 Add to cartA poet’s spacious exploration of time, memory, and art, in homage to Bernadette Mayer.
A spiritual homage to Bernadette Mayer’s monumental artwork of the same title, Dorothea Lasky’s Memory is a cycle- Series: Semiotext(e) / Native Agents
- Author: Lasky, Dorothea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1635902592
- Language: English
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Where Love and Imagination Colour the Dark: Essays on Thomas Kinsella
$29.95 Add to cartWhere Love and Imagination Colour the Dark establishes a broad interdisciplinary context in which to consider the work of Thomas Kinsella, one of the most significant poets in modern Irish and interna… [more below]
- Author: Leavy, Adrienne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1943667101
- Language: English
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Serpent, Siren, Maelstrom, and Myth: Sea Stories and Folktales from Around the World
$24.95 Add to cartAn entrancing collection of myths and legends of the sea
The sea is beautiful and alluring, but it is also dangerous and deadly. Above all, it is unknowable and untamable. Storytelling offered our anc
- Author: Smyth, Gerry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0295754508
- Language: English
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Daredevil: Born Again
$14.95 Add to cartExplore the Stories Behind the Legends
What happens when a hero loses everything? In Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli’s Daredevil: Born Again, the comic’s titular hero has his life destroyed after- Series: Marvel Age of Comics
- Author: Ryall, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 9798765131688
- Language: English
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Beowulf
$22.00 Add to cartThe greatest surviving Old English poem rendered into modern prose
Beowulf stands at the head of English literature; a poem of historical interest and epic scope. Although the first manuscript of Beow- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Anonymous
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 122
- Publish Date: May 30 1957
- ISBN10: 0140440704
- Language: English
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Jane Austen: A Life
$24.00 Add to cartWith the same sensitivity and artfulness that are the trademarks of her award-winning novels, Carol Shields explores the life of a writer whose own novels have engaged and delighted readers for the pa… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Lives Biographies
- Author: Shields, Carol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 31 2005
- ISBN10: 0143035169
- Language: English
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The Oak and the Larch: A Forest History of Russia and Its Empires
$35.00 Add to cartFrom the Baltic to the Pacific, from the Arctic to the steppes of Central Asia, Russia’s forests account for nearly one-fifth of the world’s wooded lands. The Oak and the Larch is the first-ever Engli
- Author: Pinkham, Sophie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 20 2026
- ISBN10: 1324036680
- Language: English
