Essays
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In Favor of the Sensitive Man and Other Essays
$15.95 Add to cartHere, in more than twenty essays, Nin shares her unique perceptions of people, places, and the arts. Includes several lectures and two interviews.
- Series: Original Harvest Book; Hb333
- Author: Nin, Anaïs
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 180
- Publish Date: April 01 1976
- ISBN10: 0156444453
- Language: English
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All I Feel Is Rivers: Dervish Essays
$19.95 Add to cartAll I Feel is Rivers is a collection of a new hybrid writing that, though spiritually akin to prose poems, retains an essayistic form. After several life-changing trips to Turkey, Robert Vivian took u… [more below]
- Author: Vivian, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 126
- Publish Date: March 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1496220331
- Language: English
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Animals Strike Curious Poses
$19.95 Read more“It might be the best book on animals I’ve ever read. It’s also the only one that’s made me laugh out loud.”
Beginning with Yuka, a 39,000 year old
–Helen MacDonald for The New York Times Book Review- Author: Passarello, Elena
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1956046186
- Language: English
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My Life at the Wheel: Toward a Memoir
$26.00 Add to cartIn this collection of impeccably written essays, Schwartz tells us early on that she never thought of her life as a “continuous line” but rather a series of intertwined interrupted experiences. Hers i
- Author: Schwartz, Lynne Sharon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1953002315
- Language: English
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On Argentina
$18.00 Add to cartA literary guide to Argentina by its most famous writer
Jorge Luis Borges wrote about Argentina as only someone passionate about his homeland can. On Argentina reveals the many facets of his passion i- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Borges, Jorge Luis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 29 2010
- ISBN10: 0143105736
- Language: English
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Present Concerns: Journalistic Essays
$15.99 Add to cartA repackaged edition of the revered author’s essays in which he deliberates on contemporary issues, from the moral to the spiritual to the practical.
C. S. Lewis–the great British writer, scholar, lay
- Author: Lewis, C. S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 14 2017
- ISBN10: 0062643592
- Language: English
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Never Can Say Goodbye: Writers on Their Unshakable Love for New York
$18.99 Add to cart“Gets right to the heart of what it feels like to be a New Yorker–slightly insane, broke, and madly in love. These essays made me laugh out loud with recognition. New York City isn’t an easy place to… [more below]
- Author: Botton, Sari
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 14 2014
- ISBN10: 147678440X
- Language: English
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The Red Thread: Twenty Years of Nyrb Classics: A Selection
$17.95 Add to cartTo celebrate the 20th anniversary of NYRB Classics, a handpicked anthology of selections from the series.
In Greek mythology, Ariadne gave Theseus a ball of red thread to guide him through the labyrint… [more below]- Author: Frank, Edwin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 24 2019
- ISBN10: 1681373912
- Language: English
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Make It Scream, Make It Burn: Essays
$19.99 Add to cartFrom the “astounding” (Entertainment Weekly), “spectacularly evocative” (The Atlantic), and “brilliant” (Los Angeles Times) author of the New York Times bestsellers The Recovering and The Empathy Exam… [more below]
- Author: Jamison, Leslie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 20 2020
- ISBN10: 0316259659
- Language: English
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Let Me Tell You What I Mean
$23.00 Read moreA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR – NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER – From one of our most iconic and influential writers, the award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking a timeless collec… [more below]
- Author: Didion, Joan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 26 2021
- ISBN10: 059331848X
- Language: English
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Children & Other Wild Animals: Notes on Badgers, Otters, Sons, Hawks, Daughters, Dogs, Bears, Air, Bobcats, Fishers, Mascots, Charles Darwin, Newts,
$18.95 Add to cartIn Children and Other Wild Animals, bestselling novelist Brian Doyle (Mink River, The Plover) describes encounters with astounding beings of every sort and shape. These true tales of animals and human… [more below]
- Author: Doyle, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0870717545
- Language: English
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Alibis
$19.00 Add to cartFrom André Aciman, the New York Times bestselling author of Call Me By Your Name, comes an eclectic collection of essays on memory and exile inspired by the quiet moments of an introspective travel
- Author: Aciman, André
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 27 2012
- ISBN10: 1250013984
- Language: English
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After Henry
$20.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – Didion’s “reportorial pieces afford the pleasures of literature…. She is an expert geographer of the landscape of American public culture” (The New York Times Book Review).
Her- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Didion, Joan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 27 1993
- ISBN10: 0679745394
- Language: English
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Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees
$26.99 Add to cartFrom the New York Times bestselling author of World of Wonders, a lyrical book of short essays about food, offering a banquet of tastes, smells, memories, associations, and marvelous curiosities from
- Author: Nezhukumatathil, Aimee
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 30 2024
- ISBN10: 0063282267
- Language: English
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Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through
$16.95 Read moreW. G. Sebald meets Maggie Nelson in an autobiographical narrative of embodiment, visual art, history, and loss.
- Author: Fleischmann, T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: June 04 2019
- ISBN10: 1566895472
- Language: English
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Writers Who Love Too Much: New Narrative Writing 1977-1997
$29.95 Read moreThis long overdue anthology of New Narrative includes both classic New Narrative texts and rare supplementary materials, allowing the movement fueled by punk, pop, porn, French theory, and social stru… [more below]
- Author: Killian, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: July 03 2017
- ISBN10: 1937658651
- Language: English
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Listening in the Dark: Women Reclaiming the Power of Intuition
$25.99 Read moreAmber Tamblyn, Jessica Valenti, Lidia Yuknavitch, Jia Tolentino, Samantha Irby, Meredith Talusan, Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley, Amy Poehler, America Ferrera, Ada Lim?, and Huma Abedin are among the i… [more below]
- Author: Tamblyn, Amber
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 0778333337
- Language: English
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Black and Female: Essays
$23.00 Read moreThe first wound for all of us who are classified as “black” is empire.
In Black and Female, Tsitsi Dangarembga examines the legacy of imperialism on her own life and on every aspect of black embodied- Author: Dangarembga, Tsitsi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: January 17, 2023
- ISBN10: 1644452111
- Language: English
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Appropriate: A Provocation
$15.95 Read moreHow do we properly define cultural appropriation, and is it always wrong? If we can write in the voice of another, should we? And if so, what questions do we need to consider first? In Appropriate, cr
- Author: Rekdal, Paisley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 16 2021
- ISBN10: 1324003588
- Language: English
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Not a Soul But Us: A Story in 84 Sonnets
$17.00 Read moreWinner of the 2021 May Sarton New Hampshire Poetry Prize!
In mid-fourteenth century Yorkshire, the plague pandemic wipes out half the inhabitants of a remote village. Left behind is a twelve-year-old
- Author: Smith, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: March 18 2022
- ISBN10: 0872333604
- Language: English
