Essays

  • The Age of Loneliness: Essays

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    In this debut essay collection, Laura Marris reframes environmental degradation by setting aside the conventional, catastrophic framework of the Anthropocene in favor of that of the Eremocene, the age

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    • Author: Marris, Laura
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 208
    • Publish Date: August 06 2024
    • ISBN10: 1644452944
    • Language: English
  • Any Person Is the Only Self: Essays

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    Contagiously curious essays on reading, art, and the life of the mind, from the acclaimed author of The Unreality of Memory.

    Who are we when we read? When we journal? Are we more ourselves alone or w

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    • Author: Gabbert, Elisa
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: June 11 2024
    • ISBN10: 0374605890
    • Language: English
  • Beneath the Surface of Things: New and Selected Essays

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    “Wade Davis is a true wayfinder, and these essays offer new insight into his visionary approach to culture, landscape, and the planet he loves as fiercely as any writer working today.”–John Vaillant,[more below]

    • Author: Davis, Wade
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 264
    • Publish Date: April 30 2024
    • ISBN10: 1778400442
    • Language: English
  • Familiarity Breeds Content: New and Selected Essays

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    A collection of personal essays from America’s most revered essay writer, Joseph Epstein.America’s greatest living essayist writes about life and aging and being all too nicely out of it. In these per… [more below]

    • Author: Epstein, Joseph
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 464
    • Publish Date: April 16 2024
    • ISBN10: 1668009722
    • Language: English
  • One Day We’ll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter: Essays

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    One of NPR’s Best Books of the Year

    A DEBUT COLLECTION OF FIERCE, FUNNY ESSAYS ABOUT GROWING UP THE DAUGHTER OF INDIAN IMMIGRANTS IN WESTERN CULTURE, ADDRESSING SEXISM, STEREOTYPES, AND THE UNIVERSAL

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    • Author: Koul, Scaachi
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: May 02 2017
    • ISBN10: 1250121027
    • Language: English
  • The Ways of Paradise

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    In his foreword to The Ways of Paradise, Peter Cornell presents this so-called found manuscript, the work of a now-deceased, obscure researcher who spent three decades in the National Library of Swede

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    • Author: Cornell, Peter
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 152
    • Publish Date: March 25 2025
    • ISBN10: 1804271063
    • Language: English
  • Putting Myself Together: Writing 1974-

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    My ignorance was on my side. I wasn’t afraid. I didn’t know what to be afraid of. I did one thing, I did another. I did what I now call crashing about. One day I started to write.

    This collection of J

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    • Author: Kincaid, Jamaica
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 336
    • Publish Date: August 05 2025
    • ISBN10: 0374613230
    • Language: English
  • Latitudes: Encounters with a Changing Planet

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    “McNeil’s deeply felt observations offer a transporting, thought-provoking lens on nature. It’s captivating stuff.” Publishers Weekly

    “Meditative and sumptuous… Latitudes is a rich, textured portrait

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    • Author: McNeil, Jean
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 280
    • Publish Date: March 25 2025
    • ISBN10: 190995411X
    • Language: English
  • Sex with a Brain Injury: On Concussion and Recovery

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    This powerful and deeply personal memoir in essays “reflects on history, philosophy, and love while living with head trauma” (The New York Times Book Review). “An infuriatingly gorgeous, important boo… [more below]

    • Author: Liontas, Annie
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 320
    • Publish Date: January 14 2025
    • ISBN10: 1668085569
    • Language: English
  • All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess

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    A glorious call to throw off restraint and balance in favor of excess, abandon, and disproportion, in essays ranging from such topics as mindfulness, decluttering, David Cronenberg, and consent.

    In her

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    • Author: Rothfeld, Becca
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 304
    • Publish Date: April 01 2025
    • ISBN10: 1250849942
    • Language: English
  • Shakespeare: The Bard’s Guide to Abuses and Affronts

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    Baffle your friends with your erudite knowledge of Shakespearean English, all while casually insulting them. This deluxe collection of Shakespeare’s most dazzling insults is neatly separated into sect… [more below]

    • Series: Rp Minis
    • Author: Running Press
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 176
    • Publish Date: March 04 2014
    • ISBN10: 0762453869
    • Language: English
  • The Art of the Myth: Maine Essays

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    What is it like to train as a whitewater guide? What special skills do you need to forage for fiddlehead ferns? What do a handful of Maine auction houses have in common? Why did a village suddenly for

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    • Author: Burke, Michael D.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 266
    • Publish Date: October 25 2024
    • ISBN10: 9.79899E+12
    • Language: English
  • Low: Notes on Art & Trash

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    Raised in a rural Oregon town plagued by poverty, the artist and writer Jaydra Johnson excelled in school and chased upward mobility, desperate to escape the adversity that she saw as her inheritance-

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    • Author: Johnson, Jaydra
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 168
    • Publish Date: November 05 2024
    • ISBN10: 9798987589076
    • Language: English
  • Prose to the People: A Celebration of Black Bookstores

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    A stunning visual homage to Black bookstores around the country along with profiles and essays that celebrate the history, community, activism, and culture these spaces embody, featuring an original f[more below]

    • Author: Mitchell, Katie
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: April 08 2025
    • ISBN10: 0593581342
    • Language: English
  • Inner Workings: Literary Essays 2000-2005

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    J.M. Coetzee’s latest novel, The Schooldays of Jesus, is now available from Viking. Late Essays: 2006-2016 will be available January 2018.

    In addition to being one of the most acclaimed and accomplis

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    • Author: Coetzee, J. M.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 320
    • Publish Date: July 01 2008
    • ISBN10: 014311378X
    • Language: English
  • Songs on Endless Repeat: Essays and Outtakes

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    A Most Anticipated Book of 2023 from: LA Times * Boston Globe * The Millions * LitHub * Shondaland

    By the New York Times bestselling author of the award-winning AFTERPARTIES comes a collection like no

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    • Author: So, Anthony Veasna
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: December 03 2024
    • ISBN10: 0063049945
    • Language: English
  • Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers

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    Now with an original introduction by David Brooks, Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers is a funny and irreverent study of class and status by the master of New Journalism.

    Tom Wolfe’s two-ac

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    • Author: Wolfe, Tom
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 160
    • Publish Date: August 27 2024
    • ISBN10: 1250321883
    • Language: English
  • A Town Without Time: Gay Talese’s New York

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    From legendary journalist Gay Talese, a collection of his greatest reporting on New York City.

    “Along with Joan Didion, Norman Mailer, Tom Wolfe and others, Mr. Talese has been acclaimed as a virtuoso

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    • Author: Talese, Gay
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 432
    • Publish Date: December 03 2024
    • ISBN10: 0063392186
    • Language: English
  • Y2K: How the 2000s Became Everything (Essays on the Future That Never Was)

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    Perfect for fans of Jia Tolentino and Chuck Klosterman, Y2K is a delightfully nostalgic and bitingly told exploration about how the early 2000s forever changed us and the world we live in.

    THE EARLY 20

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    • Author: Shade, Colette
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: January 07 2025
    • ISBN10: 0063333945
    • Language: English
  • Bluets

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    Since 2009, when it first published, to today, Bluets has drawn scores of readers with its surprising insights into the emotional depths that make us most human–via 240 short pieces, at once lyrical … [more below]

    • Author: Nelson, Maggie
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: September 03 2019
    • ISBN10: 1940696909
    • Language: English
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