Essays
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Letters Concerning the English Nation
$10.95 Add to cartInspired by Voltaire’s two-year stay in England (1726-8), this is one of the key works of the Enlightenment. His controversial pronouncements on politics, philosophy, religion, and literature have pla… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Voltaire
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 28 2009
- ISBN10: 019955532X
- Language: English
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Memory Serves: Oratories
$24.95 Add to cartWinner of the Non-Fiction Book of the Year Award at the 2016 Alberta Book Publishing Awards!
Memory Serves gathers together the oratories award-winning author Lee Maracle has delivered and performed ov
- Series: Writer as Critic #13
- Author: Maracle, Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 15 2015
- ISBN10: 1926455444
- Language: English
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Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises (and Essays)
$15.95 Add to cartNational Book Award Longlist Winner of the Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction Winner of the Foreword INDIE Editor’s Choice Prize for Nonfiction
“Rebecca Solnit is essential feminist reading.” —The New Repu… [more below]- Author: Solnit, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 166
- Publish Date: September 04 2018
- ISBN10: 1608469468
- Language: English
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Nonwhite and Woman: 131 Micro Essays on Being in the World
$21.95 Add to cartNonwhite and Woman celebrates how women of color live and thrive in the world, and how they make their lives their own. The anthology’s title is from Lucille Clifton’s luminous poem, “won’t you celebr… [more below]
- Series: Flash Nonfiction
- Author: Gee, Darien Hsu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 354
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1949116697
- Language: English
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Love and Industry: A Midwestern Workbook
$19.95 Read moreSonya Huber, author of the award-winning Pain Woman Takes Your Keys, and Other Essays from a Nervous System, offers a candid, lyrical look inside the unsung world of exurban Illinois.
New Lenox, Illino… [more below]
- Author: Huber, Sonya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 190
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1953368581
- Language: English
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Narrow Road to the Interior: And Other Writings
$14.95 Add to cartA masterful translation of one of the most-loved classics of Japanese literature–part travelogue, part haiku collection, part account of spiritual awakening
Bashō (1644-1694)–a great luminary o- Series: Shambhala Pocket Library
- Author: Basho, Matsuo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: May 14 2019
- ISBN10: 1611806895
- Language: English
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Angel Walks Through the Stage and Other Essays
$15.95 Read moreWinner of the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2023
Jon Fosse said farewell to theory early in his career, choosing poetry, fiction, and drama as his mediums of choice. Here, however, in a selection from
- Series: Norwegian Literature
- Author: Fosse, Jon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 25 2015
- ISBN10: 1628971096
- Language: English
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Too Much of Life: The Complete Cr?nicas
$29.95 Add to cartThe things I’ve learned from taxi drivers would be enough to fill a book. They know a lot: they really do get around. I may know a lot about Antonioni that they don’t know. Or maybe they do even when … [more below]
- Author: Lispector, Clarice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 864
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 0811226794
- Language: English
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The Book
$20.00 Add to cartFollowing the acclaimed Dunce, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, comes Mary Ruefle’s latest prose publication The Book, now in softcover.
True to its bold title, The Book affirms Mary Ruefle… [more below]
- Author: Ruefle, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 9798891060043
- Language: English
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The Star Thrower
$27.95 Add to cartA collection of the author’s favorite essays and poems. This volume includes selections that span Eiseley’s entire writing career and provide a sampling of the author as naturalist, poet, scientist, a… [more below]
- Series: Harvest/HBJ Book
- Author: Eiseley, Loren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 324
- Publish Date: September 06 2011
- ISBN10: 0156849097
- Language: English
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Baldwin, Styron, and Me
$17.95 Add to cartAn unlikely literary friendship from the past sheds light on the radicalization of public debate around identity, race, and censorship.
In 1961, James Baldwin spent several months in William Styron’s g
- Series: Biblioasis International Translation #52
- Author: Abdelmoumen, M?likah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1771966262
- Language: English
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No Sense in Wishing: Essays
$29.99 Add to cart“Among the most profound and dazzling debuts I’ve ever read.” –Kiese Laymon, award-winning author of Heavy: An American Memoir
An essay collection from culture critic Lawrence Burney that is a person- Author: Burney, Lawrence
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1668051850
- Language: English
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Anarchism and Other Essays
$18.00 Read moreA true classic of radical literature, in its first scholarly, annotated edition.
Emma Goldman, the “notorious anarchist” deported from the United States in 1919 for “seditious activities,” was a leadin
- Series: Working Classics #5
- Author: Goldman, Emma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1849355681
- Language: English
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A Paris All Your Own: Bestselling Women Writers on the City of Light
$24.00 Add to cartA collection of all-new Paris-themed essays written by some of the biggest names in women’s fiction, including Paula McLain, Therese Anne Fowler, Maggie Shipstead, and Lauren Willig–edited by Eleanor… [more below]
- Author: Brown, Eleanor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 04 2017
- ISBN10: 0399574476
- Language: English
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Sloppy: Or: Doing It All Wrong
$18.00 Add to cartFrom the James Beard Award-nominated author of Tacky, a boldly funny, warts-and-all tour of the bad habits that make Rax King who she is
“Most writers are boring people. King, though, seems different:- Author: King, Rax
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 29 2025
- ISBN10: 0593688457
- Language: English
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The Search for the Genuine: Nonfiction, 1970-2015
$18.00 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 neve
- Author: Harrison, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 080215722X
- Language: English
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Notes to John
$34.00 Add to cartAn extraordinary work from the author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Blue Nights
In November 1999, Joan Didion began seeing a psychiatrist because, as she wrote to a friend, her family had had “a- Author: Didion, Joan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 22 2025
- ISBN10: 9798217171064
- Language: English
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The Catastrophe Hour: Selected Essays
$18.95 Add to cartFrom the New York Times-bestselling author of The Unspeakable and The Problem with Everything comes a new collection of unputdownable essays.
“For the last five or six years, on many afternoons around- Author: Daum, Meghan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1912559684
- Language: English
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Airstream Country: A Geologic Journey Across the American West
$19.95 Add to cartA herd of bison standing in the snow. Layered bluffs of multicolored sandstone. A silver Airstream trailer on a mountain highway. These are familiar sights for Neil Mathison and his wife, Susan. Newly
- Author: Mathison, Neil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0826367461
- Language: English
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Delusions and Grandeur: Dreamers of the New West
$21.95 Add to cartIn these new and selected essays, Mark Sundeen recounts two decades of political activism, outdoor exploration, and empathetic curiosity. He was both witness to and active participant in pivotal cultu
- Author: Sundeen, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 18 2025
- ISBN10: 082636764X
- Language: English
