Essays
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The Colossus of New York
$17.00 Add to cartIn a dazzlingly original work of nonfiction, the two time Pulitzer-Prize winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys recreates the exuberance, the chaos, the promise, and the heartb… [more below]
- Author: Whitehead, Colson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 12 2004
- ISBN10: 1400031249
- Language: English
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Animal Joy: A Book of Laughter and Resuscitation
$18.00 Read moreA Time Must-Read Book of 2022
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2022 Aster(ix) Journal’s 12 Best Nonfiction Books of 2022
An invigorating, continuously surprising book about the serious nature of laugh- Author: Alsadir, Nuar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 16 2022
- ISBN10: 1644450933
- Language: English
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On Womanhood: Bodies, Literature, Choice
$12.95 Read moreTwelve incisive, probing essays on womanhood in popular culture. An Atlantic Edition, featuring long-form journalism by Atlantic writers, drawn from contemporary articles or classic storytelling from
- Series: Atlantic Editions
- Author: Gilbert, Sophie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 163893066X
- Language: English
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Llorando En El Baño: Memorias / Crying in the Bathroom: A Memoir
$17.95 Add to cartDe la autora de Yo no soy tu perfecta hija mexicana, bestseller del New York Times, nos llegan estos originalÃsimos ensayos autobiográficos, profundamente conmovedores y de una comicidad que desarma… [more below]
- Author: Sánchez, Erika L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 20 2022
- ISBN10: 0593314735
- Language: Spanish
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On Divas: Persona, Pleasure, Power
$12.95 Read moreA critic’s notebook on sparkle and spectacle. An Atlantic Edition, featuring long-form journalism by Atlantic writers, drawn from contemporary articles or classic storytelling from the magazine’s 165-
- Series: Atlantic Editions
- Author: Kornhaber, Spencer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1638931135
- Language: English
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A Left-Handed Woman: Essays
$20.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE 2023 PEN/DIAMONSTEIN-SPIELVOGEL AWARD FOR THE ART OF THE ESSAY
A collection of essays from Judith Thurman, the National Book Award-winning biographer and New Yorker staff writer. Judith- Author: Thurman, Judith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: December 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1250872669
- Language: English
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my mother’s tomorrow: dispatches through the lens of Baltimore’s Black Butterfly
$18.99 Add to cartIn 2017, Dr. Kaye began a three-year in-depth ethnographic study within Baltimore’s Black Butterfly neighborhoods, documenting and recording the community stories.
In “you tell them that we’re not inv… [more below]
- Author: Whitehead, Karsonya Wise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 210
- Publish Date: November 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1627204881
- Language: English
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Mantel Pieces: Royal Bodies and Other Writing from the London Review of Books
$18.99 Read moreA stunning collection of essays and memoir from twice Booker Prize winner and international bestseller Hilary Mantel, author of The Mirror and the Light
In 1987, when Hilary Mantel was first publishe
- Author: Mantel, Hilary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 30, 2021
- ISBN10: 0008430004
- Language: English
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Nature and Selected Essays
$17.00 Add to cartAn indispensible look at Emerson’s influential life philosophy
Through his writing and his own personal philosophy, Ralph Waldo Emerson unburdened his young country of Europe’s traditional sense of hi- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Emerson, Ralph Waldo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 27 2003
- ISBN10: 014243762X
- Language: English
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We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction; Introduction by John Leonard
$40.00 Read moreSeven books in one hardcover volume from the bestselling, award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking: including the full texts of Slouching Towards Bethlehem; The White Album; Salvador; Miam
- Series: Everyman’s Library Classics & Contemporary Classics
- Author: Didion, Joan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1160
- Publish Date: October 17, 2006
- ISBN10: 0307264874
- Language: English
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Portable Magic: A History of Books and Their Readers
$28.00 Read moreA history of one of humankind’s most resilient and influential technologies over the past millennium–the book. Revelatory and entertaining in equal measure, Portable Magic will charm and challenge li… [more below]
- Author: Smith, Emma
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1524749095
- Language: English
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On Human Slaughter: Evil, Justice, Mercy
$12.95 Add to cart
Incisive, compassionate, and revelatory reporting from America’s death row, named a 2023 Pulitzer Prize finalist for feature writing. An Atlantic Edition, featuring long-form journalism by Atlantic w- Series: Atlantic Editions
- Author: Bruenig, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1638931429
- Language: English
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What Do I Know?: Essential Essays
$24.00 Read moreA fresh new translation of Michel de Montaigne’s most profound, searching essays, with an introduction from Yiyun Li, author of The Book of Goose
This gift-worthy collection of 16 essays by “the fathe- Author: de Montaigne, Michel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1782278818
- Language: English
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The Search for the Genuine: Nonfiction, 1970-2015
$28.00 Add to cartThe first general nonfiction title in thirty years from a giant of American letters, The Search for the Genuine is a sparkling, definitive collection of Jim Harrison’s essays and journalism–some nev
- Author: Harrison, Jim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 13, 2022
- ISBN10: 0802157211
- Language: English
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Plainwater: Essays and Poetry
$19.00 Add to cartThe poetry and prose collected in Plainwater are a testament to the extraordinary imagination of Anne Carson, a writer described by Michael Ondaatje as “the most exciting poet writing in English today… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Carson, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 28, 2000
- ISBN10: 0375708421
- Language: English
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A Collection of Essays
$18.99 Add to cartA clear-eyed, uncompromising collection of essays from the “conscience of his generation” and the author of 1984 (V. S. Pritchett). One of the most thought-provoking and vivid essayists of the twentie
- Series: Harvest Book
- Author: Orwell, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 21, 1970
- ISBN10: 0156186004
- Language: English
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Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography
$18.00 Add to cartCamera Lucida, Roland Barthes’s personal, wide-ranging, and contemplative volume–and the last book he published–finds the author applying his influential perceptiveness and associative insight to th
- Author: Barthes, Roland
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 12 2010
- ISBN10: 0374532338
- Language: English
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Here is New York
$18.95 Add to cartPerceptive, funny, and nostalgic, E. B. White’s stroll around Manhattan remains the quintessential love letter to the city, written by one of America’s foremost literary figures. The New York Times ha… [more below]
- Author: White, E. B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: January 01 2000
- ISBN10: 1892145022
- Language: English
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All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays
$19.99 Add to cartThe essential collection of critical essays from a twentieth-century master and author of 1984.
As a critic, George Orwell cast a wide net. Equally at home discussing Charles Dickens and Charlie Chapli… [more below]
- Author: Orwell, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 14 2009
- ISBN10: 0156033070
- Language: English
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The Unwritten Book: An Investigation
$20.00 Add to cart“One of our most interesting and bold writers . . . [offers] a characteristically wild effort that defies genre distinctions, flits from the profound to the mundane with fierce intelligence and search
- Author: Hunt, Samantha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 4, 2023
- ISBN10: 1250863082
- Language: English
