Essays
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A Brief Inhalation
$18.99 Add to cartDaragh Fleming’s A Brief Inhalation is a candid exploration of contemporary existence, dissecting themes of identity, dislocation, and introspection with a sharp, unflinching eye. Blurring the line be
- Author: Fleming, Daragh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 156
- Publish Date: March 31 2025
- ISBN10: 1916938876
- Language: English
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The Rush for Second Place: Essays and Occasional Writings
$28.00 Read moreAn essential collection of nonfiction essays by the National Book Award winning author of J R and A Frolic of His Own
William Gaddis published only four novels during his lifetime, but with those work- Author: Gaddis, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0142002380
- Language: English
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Field Guide to Falling Ill: Essays
$28.00 Add to cartFrom the inaugural winner of the Yale Nonfiction Book Prize, a riveting exploration of illness and medicine that imagines a more humane form of care
“What was wrong with them? That’s what we wanted to- Series: The Yale Nonfiction Book Prize
- Author: Gleason, Jonathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 27 2026
- ISBN10: 030028294X
- Language: English
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Attention: Writing on Life, Art, and the World
$29.99 Add to cartFor thirty years Anne Enright–one of our greatest living novelists (Times)–has been paying attention: casting her lucid and distinctive gaze across the world, literature, and her own life, and gifti
- Author: Enright, Anne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 07 2026
- ISBN10: 132412413X
- Language: English
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Someone Like Me: An Anthology of Non-Fiction by Autistic Writers
$22.99 Add to cartIn Someone Like Me, editors Clem Bastow and Jo Case showcase the wide-ranging experiences of Autistic gender-diverse and women writers – and explode long-held stereotypes. BIPOC and white gender minor… [more below]
- Author: Bastow, Clem
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 13 2026
- ISBN10: 0857309269
- Language: English
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Where It Hurts: Dispatches from the Emotional Frontlines of Medicine
$18.95 Add to cartIn Where It Hurts, more than 60 doctors, nurses, therapists, EMTs, patient advocates, and other medical professionals offer a window into the space between health and illness, life and death as they s
- Author: Bulseco, Donna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 24 2026
- ISBN10: 9798893031041
- Language: English
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On Booze
$15.95 Add to cart“First you take a drink,” F. Scott Fitzgerald once noted, “then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.” Fitzgerald wrote alcohol into almost every one of his stories. On Booze gathers debu… [more below]
- Author: Fitzgerald, F. Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: March 03 2026
- ISBN10: 0811239942
- Language: English
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Incompleteness: New and Selected Essays, 1999 – 2023
$22.95 Add to cartEssays on everything from the music of Joni Mitchell to the declining quality of Bengali food from one of India’s preeminent writers.
“I’m an Indian, so of course I write about India. But then, again,- Author: Chaudhuri, Amit
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: January 06 2026
- ISBN10: 1681379651
- Language: English
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The Position of Spoons: And Other Intimacies
$18.00 Add to cartA feast of observations about everything from the particular beauty of lemons on a table, to the allure of Colette, to the streets of Paris, by the inimitable Deborah Levy.
Deborah Levy’s vital litera- Author: Levy, Deborah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 1250397731
- Language: English
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Nothing of Insignificance
$22.00 Add to cart- Author: Hollander, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1933994479
- Language: English
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Every Moment Is a Life: Gaza in the Time of Genocide
$19.00 Add to cartCompiled by bestselling author susan abulhawa, an Arabic-English bilingual anthology of essays from eighteen young Palestinian writers trying to survive the genocide in Gaza.
In early 2024, writer and- Author: Abulhawa, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 10 2026
- ISBN10: 1668222361
- Language: English
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Jump Cuts: Essays on Surrealism, Film, Music, Culture, and Other Utopian Topics
$20.00 Add to cart“Erudite, witty, light on his feet, Polizzotti is the perfect guide to these shadowlands where art and freedom embrace. A Modernist Book of Revelation.” –Rosanna Warren
In this volume comprising 13 es
- Author: Polizzotti, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 9798991298834
- Language: English
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Racial Fictions
$29.95 Add to cartA powerful critique of the racial myths that shape our world
Drawing on a rich tapestry of historical analysis, literary criticism, and cultural theory, Hazel V. Carby interrogates our racial fictions- Author: Carby, Hazel V.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1804299936
- Language: English
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The Portable Emerson
$27.00 Add to cartA comprehensive collection of writings by “the most influential writer of the nineteenth century” (Harold Bloom)
Ralph Waldo Emerson’s diverse body of work has done more than perhaps any other thinker- Author: Emerson, Ralph Waldo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: December 30 2014
- ISBN10: 0143107461
- Language: English
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Good Woman: A Reckoning
$28.99 Add to cartA raw and lyrical exploration of the confining expectations of womanhood and, if we dare, what lies beyond those limitations–from a writer Roxane Gay calls “vibrant and thoughtful.”
Gorgeous, badass,
- Author: Nolan, Savala
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 03 2026
- ISBN10: 0063320088
- Language: English
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Frog: And Other Essays
$26.00 Add to cartA new collection of evocative personal essays from one of America’s most beloved nonfiction writers, Anne Fadiman.
In Frog, Anne Fadiman returns to her favorite genre, the essay, of which she is one o- Author: Fadiman, Anne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 10 2026
- ISBN10: 0374608741
- Language: English
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Want: Sexual Fantasies by Anonymous
$18.00 Add to cartAn instant New York Times bestseller, Want is a collection of confessions from women around the world. This revelatory, sensational and game-changing exploration of women’s sexuality asks, and answers… [more below]
- Author: Anderson, Gillian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 13 2026
- ISBN10: 1419777300
- Language: English
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A Man Without a Country: 20th Anniversary Edition
$29.95 Add to cartThe last of the canonical Kurt Vonnegut books, A Man Without a Country spent eight weeks on the New York Times hardcover nonfiction bestseller list, selling over a quarter-million copies
This 20th ann- Author: Vonnegut, Kurt
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1644214881
- Language: English
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Fire Ants
$22.00 Add to cartThat’s your first lesson in East Texas-where words stretch like summer days and stories run deeper than the Red River itself. In Fire Ants, O’Banion delivers a witty, unvarnished portrait of growing u
- Author: O’Banion, Cason E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 166
- Publish Date: October 31 2025
- ISBN10: 162288292X
- Language: English
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Unexploded Ordnance: What She Felt. What They Feared. How They Survived. What They Saw.
$17.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE 2023 RESTLESS BOOKS PRIZE FOR NEW IMMIGRANT WRITING
In imaginative prose that interrogates the past with a poet’s curiosity and a scientist’s pen, Unexploded Ordnance seeks to answer how
- Author: Coenen, Catharina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1632064057
- Language: English
