Essays
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The Best American Essays of the Century
$19.99 Add to cartThis singular collection is nothing less than a political, spiritual, and intensely personal record of America’s tumultuous modern age, as experienced by our foremost critics, commentators, activists,… [more below]
- Series: Best American Series (R)
- Author: Oates, Joyce Carol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: October 10 2001
- ISBN10: 0618155872
- Language: English
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The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives
$16.00 Add to cartThe Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer, Viet Thanh Nguyen, called on 17 fellow refugee writers from across the globe to shed light on their experiences, and the result is The Displaced, … [more below]
- Author: Nguyen, Viet Thanh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 16 2019
- ISBN10: 141973511X
- Language: English
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Mr. Know-It-All: The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder
$19.00 Add to cartThe newest essay collection from the New York Times bestselling author John Waters, reflecting on how to overcome newfound respectability and rebel in the autumn of your years.
No one knows more about- Author: Waters, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 21 2020
- ISBN10: 1250619467
- Language: English
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Little Virtues
$13.95 Add to cart“As far as the education of children is concerned,” states Natalia Ginzburg in this collection of her finest and best-known short essays, “I think they should be taught not the little virtues but the … [more below]
- Author: Ginzburg, Natalia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 110
- Publish Date: August 01 2013
- ISBN10: 1611457971
- Language: English
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We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting for: Inner Light in a Time of Darkness
$24.07 Add to cartThe New York Times bestselling book that both galvanizes progressives for action and is a balm–from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author
“A light in darkness, Alice Walker awakens us to our own power as
- Author: Walker, Alice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1620976730
- Language: English
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You Don’t Know Us Negroes and Other Essays
$29.99 Add to cartA MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK FROM: Oprah Daily, Business Insider, Marie Claire, The Seattle Times, Lit Hub, Bustle, and New York Magazine’s Vulture
Introduction by New York Times bestselling author Henry L
- Author: Hurston, Zora Neale
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: January 18 2022
- ISBN10: 0063043858
- Language: English
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Three Guineas: The Virginia Woolf Library Authorized Edition
$15.99 Add to cart“Though we see the same world, we see it through different eyes.”
Setting out to answer the question “How are we to prevent war?” Virginia Woolf argues that the inequalities between women and men mus- Series: Virginia Woolf Library
- Author: Woolf, Virginia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 01 1963
- ISBN10: 0156901773
- Language: English
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The Hunger Book: A Memoir from Communist Poland
$24.95 Add to cart“A searing memoir about growing up behind the Iron Curtain, motherhood, addiction, and finding sustenance in the natural world.” –Kirkus
In The Hunger Book, Agata Izabela Brewer evokes her Polish c- Series: 21st Century Essays
- Author: Brewer, Agata Izabela
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 29 2023
- ISBN10: 0814258786
- Language: English
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Too Much and Not the Mood: Essays
$19.00 Add to cartNamed a best book of 2017 by NPR, The Guardian, Slate, NYLON and The Globe and Mail (Canada)
From Durga Chew-Bose, “one of our most gifted, insightful essayists and critics” (Nylon), comes “a warmly- Author: Chew-Bose, Durga
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 11, 2017
- ISBN10: 0374535957
- Language: English
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The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America’s National Parks
$22.00 Add to cartLonglisted for an Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence
A Washington Post Notable Book of the Year
America’s national parks are breathing spaces in a world in which such spaces are steadily disappearing,- Author: Williams, Terry Tempest
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: July 03 2017
- ISBN10: 1250132142
- Language: English
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The Lonely Stories: 22 Celebrated Writers on the Joys & Struggles of Being Alone
$16.95 Add to cartA collection of essays about the joys and struggles of being alone by 22 literary writers including: Lev Grossman, Jhumpa Lahiri, Lena Dunham, Jesmyn Ward, Yiyun Li, and Anthony Doerr
If you’re feelin- Author: Garrett, Natalie Eve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 19 2022
- ISBN10: 194822660X
- Language: English
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Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
$18.00 Add to cartThis bold and brilliant collection is a must for all readers, writers, and students of American literature
When she died in 1964, Flannery O’Connor left behind a body of unpublished essays and lectures- Series: FSG Classics
- Author: O’Connor, Flannery
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 01 1969
- ISBN10: 0374508046
- Language: English
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Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: Work from 1970 to the Present
$25.00 Add to cartFrom memoir to journalism, personal essays to cultural criticism, this indispensable anthology brings together works from all genres of creative nonfiction, with pieces by fifty contemporary writers i… [more below]
- Author: Williford, Lex
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: December 11 2007
- ISBN10: 1416531742
- Language: English
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Anarchism and Other Essays
$14.00 Add to cartEmma Goldman, once considered “the most dangerous woman in America,” was a thinker so far ahead of her time that even to a modern reader, her views sound startlingly revolutionary. This collection of
- Author: Goldman, Emma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 210
- Publish Date: March 01 2017
- ISBN10: 1609441133
- Language: English
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Voice of the Fish: A Lyric Essay
$16.00 Add to cartLars Horn’s Voice of the Fish, the latest Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize winner, is an interwoven essay collection that explores the trans experience through themes of water, fish, and mythology, set
- Author: Horn, Lars
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 07 2022
- ISBN10: 1644450895
- Language: English
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Uncertain Ground: Citizenship in an Age of Endless, Invisible War
$27.00 Read moreFrom the National Book Award-winning author of Redeployment and Missionaries, an astonishing fever graph of the effects of twenty years of war in a brutally divided America.
When Phil Klay left the Mar- Author: Klay, Phil
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 17, 2022
- ISBN10: 0593299248
- Language: English
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Somewhere We Are Human Donde Somos Humanos (Spanish Edition): Historias Genuinas Sobre Migración, Sobrevivencia Y Renaceres
$22.99 Add to cartUna colecci?n de 35 ensayos y poemas audaces, importantes e innovadores de inmigrantes, refugiados y so?adores, incluidos escritores, artistas y activistas galardonados, que iluminan la experiencia de
- Author: Grande, Reyna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 24 2023
- ISBN10: 0063095831
- Language: Spanish
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The Art of the Personal Essay: An Anthology from the Classical Era to the Present
$26.00 Add to cartFor more than four hundred years, the personal essay has been one of the richest and most vibrant of all literary forms. Distinguished from the detached formal essay by its friendly, conversational to… [more below]
- Author: Lopate, Phillip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 832
- Publish Date: January 15 1997
- ISBN10: 038542339X
- Language: English
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White Girls
$17.00 Add to cart“This book will change you.” —Chicago Tribune
White Girls is about, among other things, blackness, queerness, movies, Brooklyn, love (and the loss of love), AIDS, fashion, Basquiat, Capote, philosoph- Author: Als, Hilton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 09 2019
- ISBN10: 0143134752
- Language: English
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She’s Nice Though: Essays on Being Bad at Being Good
$18.99 Read moreAN NPR BOOK-OF-THE-DAY – A PUBLISHERS WEEKLY STAFF PICK – A NYLON MUST-READ – A FORTUNE NEW BOOK TO READ IN AUGUST
“And, at the center of it all, am I actually nice or am I just performing a role I thi
- Author: Mercado, Mia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 01, 2023
- ISBN10: 0063238314
- Language: English
