Essays
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A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
$19.99 Add to cartThese widely acclaimed essays from the author of Infinite Jest — on television, tennis, cruise ships, and more — established David Foster Wallace as one of the preeminent essayists of his generation… [more below]
- Author: Wallace, David Foster
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 02 1998
- ISBN10: 0316925284
- Language: English
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Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
$17.99 Add to cartPresenting the essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider celebrates an influential voice in twentieth-century literature.
” Lorde’s] works will be impo- Author: Lorde, Audre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1580911862
- Language: English
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Danse Macabre
$21.00 Add to cartBefore he gave us the “one of a kind classic” (The Wall Street Journal) memoir On Writing, Stephen King wrote a nonfiction masterpiece in Danse Macabre, “one of the best books on American popular cult… [more below]
- Author: King, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: February 23 2010
- ISBN10: 1439170983
- Language: English
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The Power of Nonviolent Resistance: Selected Writings
$22.00 Add to cartIn time for the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of his birth, a specially curated collection of Mahatma Gandhi’s writings on nonviolent resistance and activism.
A Penguin Classic The year 2019 ma- Author: Gandhi, M. K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 24 2019
- ISBN10: 0143134159
- Language: English
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How to Look Away: On American Cruelty and the Refusal to Disappear
$28.00 Add to cartA riveting, kaleidoscopic portrait of the American compulsion toward cruelty and our power to subvert it from an award-winning contributor to The Guardian and The New York Times.
In How to Look Away,- Author: Peña, Daniel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 06 2026
- ISBN10: 0593596390
- Language: English
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What My Father and I Don’t Talk about: Sixteen Writers Break the Silence
$20.00 Add to cartA follow-up to the wildly successful What My Mother and I Don’t Talk About, this “moving and deeply relatable” (Qian Julie Wang, New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Country) collection of … [more below]
- Series: What We Don’t Talk about #2
- Author: Filgate, Michele
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 09 2026
- ISBN10: 166804966X
- Language: English
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Class ACT: A Gentleman’s Guide to Dressing Well
$22.00 Read moreFrom the bestselling, iconic author of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil comes an irreverent and essential style guide–from boxers to button downs, turtlenecks to tuxedos
For more than a decade- Author: Berendt, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 13 2026
- ISBN10: 9798217009503
- Language: English
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I Want to Burn This Place Down: Essays
$17.99 Add to cartA TIME Must-Read of 2025
A debut essay collection by the inimitable cultural critic Maris Kreizman–an introspective, searing account of the life experiences that have pushed this former “good Democrat
- Author: Kreizman, Maris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: July 07 2026
- ISBN10: 0063305836
- Language: English
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The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2026
$18.99 Read moreA collection of twenty pieces that represent the best science and nature writing published the previous year and explores our ever-changing world.
On his selections for this year’s The Best American Sc
- Author: Munroe, Randall
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 20 2026
- ISBN10: 0063414252
- Language: English
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The Best American Essays 2026
$18.99 Read moreA collection of the year’s best essays, selected by critically acclaimed author of The Future Is History and How to Survive Totalitarianism and New York Times columnist, M. Gessen.
The Best American se
- Author: Gessen, Masha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 20 2026
- ISBN10: 0063454440
- Language: English
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Love and Other Fish: Essays on Wonder, Loss, and Transformation
$19.95 Add to cart- Series: River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize
- Author: Hindley, Hannah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: July 14 2026
- ISBN10: 0826369707
- Language: English
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Decadence
$18.95 Add to cart“The genre of memoir is bullshit (as I humbly posit). No one actually lives like they are moving along some grand Freytag’s triangle. Rather, we live within isolated instances, specific struggles and
- Author: Kemick, Richard Kelly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: July 07 2026
- ISBN10: 1771967137
- Language: English
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Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Fsg 80th Anniversary Special Edition
$18.00 Read moreThe essential portrait of America in the sixties, by the acclaimed author of The Year of Magical Thinking.
More than a half century after its publication in 1968, Joan Didion’s Slouching Towards Bethl- Series: FSG Classics
- Author: Didion, Joan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 07 2026
- ISBN10: 0374622418
- Language: English
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Carousel: An Essay on Seeing
$28.00 Add to cartFrom an award-winning writer, a critical reflection on the human desire to see and be seen
Carousel opens as a professor begins delivering a lecture to a hot room. Her students have the internet in the
- Author: Minor, Sarah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: July 21 2026
- ISBN10: 0300284330
- Language: English
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The Wave in the Mind: Imagination and the Art of Writing and Reading
$24.95 Read moreJoin Ursula K. Le Guin as she turns her writer’s eye to subjects ranging from Tolstoy, Twain, and Tolkien to creativity, feminism, and the joy of imagination.
In this collection of essays, talks, and- Author: Le Guin, Ursula K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 04 2026
- ISBN10: 1645475247
- Language: English
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Granta 175: Scandinavia
$19.99 Add to cartDedicated to Scandinavian writing, this issue of Granta showcases a literature that continues to pack in more force, pound for pound, than almost anywhere else in Europe.
Karl Ove Knausg?rd turns his c
- Series: Magazine of New Writing
- Author: Meaney, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 23 2026
- ISBN10: 1909889806
- Language: English
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Passing West: Essays from the Borderlands
$19.95 Add to cartWinner of the Pen/Diamondstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. Essays on the west, the Chicano movement, by one of its founders.
Winner of the 2025 PEN/Diamondstein-Spielvogel Award for the- Author: Gilb, Dagoberto
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 01 2025
- ISBN10: 0826368905
- Language: English
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Signals Across Vast Distances: Essays and Tales
$26.99 Read moreIn this deeply personal book, Elizabeth Alexander gives us profound and galvanizing lessons from culture and life to move through challenging times. In close readings of visionary and beloved poets an
- Author: Alexander, Elizabeth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 15 2026
- ISBN10: 1324118008
- Language: English
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Relative Strangers: Inheritance, Identity, and the Meaning of Kinship
$20.00 Add to cartWhat’s it like when a complete unknown is actually close family? In Relative Strangers: Inheritance, Identity, and the Meaning of Kinship-a provocative anthology curated by B.K. Jackson, with a forewo
- Author: Jackson, B. K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: June 16 2026
- ISBN10: 1942004966
- Language: English
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Ninety-Six Hours: A Wife and Mother’s Desperate Search for the Lost Titan Sub
$32.99 Add to cartThe devastating true story of one woman’s search for her husband and son aboard the lost Titan sub.
Written by Christine Dawood, widow and mother of two Titan submersible victims, Ninety-Six Hours is a- Author: Dawood, Christine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 12 2026
- ISBN10: 1918191042
- Language: English
