Essays
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Sex, Economy, Freedom, & Community: Eight Essays
$16.95 Read more“”Read [him] with pencil in hand, make notes, and hope that somehow our country and the world will soon come to see the truth that is told here.”” —The New York Times Book Review
In this collection o- Author: Berry, Wendell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: December 04 2018
- ISBN10: 1640091408
- Language: English
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The Good Slope
$21.99 Add to cartMoving, bold, and funny, this collection of essays by Elizabeth Rau captures the poignancy of ordinary life through the voices of everyday people–children, friends, neighbors, and even the mail carri
- Author: Rau, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 362
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1627204431
- Language: English
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The Great Taos Bank Robbery: And Other True Stories
$17.95 Read moreThis classic collection of nonfiction essays about life in New Mexico by the great Tony Hillerman remains a must read for anyone looking to understand the state’s unique charm. The vivid pieces in The… [more below]
- Author: Hillerman, Tony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0826365450
- Language: English
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Negative Capability: On the Intuitive Approach in Keats
$16.00 Add to cartWalter Jackson Bate’s canonical 1939 study of Keats’s concept of negative capability is a genealogical treatise that unearths the socio-political, aesthetic, and intellectual composition of Keats’s mo… [more below]
- Author: Bate, Walter Jackson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 03 2012
- ISBN10: 098369723X
- Language: English
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Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020
$20.00 Read moreNewly collected, revised, and expanded nonfiction from the first two decades of the twenty-first century–including many texts never previously in print–by the Booker Prize-winning, internationally b… [more below]
- Author: Rushdie, Salman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: July 12 2022
- ISBN10: 0593133196
- Language: English
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On Not Knowing: How to Love and Other Essays
$16.00 Read moreA beautifully written suite of personal essays on the value of not knowing.
Moments of clarity are rare and fleeting; how can we become comfortable outside of them, in the more general condition of u- Author: Ogden, Emily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 20 2022
- ISBN10: 022675135X
- Language: English
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The Essential Dear Dara: Writings on Local Characters and Memorable Places
$19.95 Read moreA portrait of a place and its people through the writings and musings of one of the Twin Cities’ most beloved and prolific writers.
For 25 years, Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl has been a fixture of Twin Cit- Author: Grumdahl, Dara Moskowitz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1681342758
- Language: English
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Atlantic Editions 1-6 Boxed Set
$70.00 Read moreThe first six Atlantic Editions in a boxed collection.
On BTS: Pop Music, Fandom, Sincerity by Lenika Cruz
A love letter to Korean pop sensation BTS and an ode to fandom.
On Misdirection: Magic, Mayhem,… [more below]- Series: Atlantic Editions
- Author: Cruz, Lenika
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1638931585
- Language: English
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In Sensorium: Notes for My People
$26.99 Read moreThe 2022 Kirkus Prize Winner for Nonfiction
Fragrance has long been used to mark who is civilized and who is barbaric, who is pure and who is polluted, who is free and who is damned–
Focusing their gaz
- Author: Tanaïs
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 22 2022
- ISBN10: 0358381703
- Language: English
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Drawing Breath: Essays on Writing, the Body, and Loss
$18.95 Read moreIn Drawing/Breath: Inhales and Exhales on Body and Word, PEN/Bellwether Prize-winning writer Gayle Brandeis’ essays explore both the writing life and the embodied life, along with potent intersection … [more below]
- Author: Brandeis, Gayle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 223
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 9798985652710
- Language: English
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Pulphead
$20.00 Add to cartNamed A Best Book of 2011 by the New York Times, Time Magazine, the Boston Globe and Entertainment Weekly
A sharp-eyed, uniquely humane tour of America’s cultural landscape–from high to low to lower- Author: Sullivan, John Jeremiah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 25 2011
- ISBN10: 0374532907
- Language: English
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Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays
$18.99 Add to cartGeorge Orwell was first and foremost an essayist, producing throughout his life an extraordinary array of short nonfiction that reflected–and illuminated–the fraught times in which he lived. “As soo
- Author: Orwell, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0156033135
- Language: English
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Feel Free: Essays
$19.00 Add to cartWinner of the 2018 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism
A New York Times Notable Book From Zadie Smith, one of the most beloved authors of her generation, a new collection of essays Sinc- Author: Smith, Zadie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: February 05 2019
- ISBN10: 014311025X
- Language: English
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The Essays: A Selection
$18.00 Add to cartA survey of one of the giants of Renaissance thought, The Essays: A Selection collects some of Michel de Montaigne’s most startling and original works, translated from the French and edited with an in… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: de Montaigne, Michel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: May 03 1994
- ISBN10: 0140446028
- Language: English
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Feeling Is the Secret 1944
$19.99 Add to cart- Author: Neville
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 108
- Publish Date: June 21 2007
- ISBN10: 9561000199
- Language: English
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I’ll Take New Haven: Tales of Discovery and Rejuvenation
$18.00 Add to cartLary Bloom’s I’ll Take New Haven is a sprightly book depicting the author’s transition from a suburban community to total immersion in New Haven, CT. It is written with the author’s inimitable wit and
- Author: Lary, Bloom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: October 14 2022
- ISBN10: 9798985562125
- Language: English
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Orwell: Essays: Introduction by John Carey
$50.00 Add to cartA generous and varied selection-the only hardcover edition available-of the literary and political writings of one of the greatest essayists of the twentieth century.
Although best known as the author
- Series: Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics
- Author: Orwell, George
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1416
- Publish Date: October 15 2002
- ISBN10: 0375415033
- Language: English
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The Double Flame: Love and Eroticism
$19.99 Add to cartIn this series of essays Paz explores the intimate connection between sex, eroticism, and love in literature throughout the ages. Rich in scope, The Double Flame examines everything from taboo to repr
- Author: Paz, Octavio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 06 2010
- ISBN10: 0156003651
- Language: English
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Not-Knowing: The Essays and Interviews
$16.95 Add to cartThe wildly varied essays in Not-Knowing combine to form a posthumous manifesto of one of America’s masters of literary experiment. Here are Barthelme’s thoughts on writing (his own and others); his ob
- Author: Barthelme, Donald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1593761732
- Language: English
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Dispatches from the Diaspora: From Nelson Mandela to Black Lives Matter
$22.95 Add to cartDispatches from the Diaspora brings together the vibrant journalism of one of the leading Black voices spanning the Atlantic, providing a must-read for anyone interested in the way we understand conte
- Author: Younge, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1682193853
- Language: English
