Essays
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Shosa: Meditations in Japanese Handwork
$45.00 Add to cartTwelve beautiful, mindfully created in-depth portraits of Japanese makers in words and photos, from a bamboo weaver to a tatami mat maker, from a ceramicist to a cook who specialises in puddings. Incl… [more below]
- Author: Gomez, Ringo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 17 2025
- ISBN10: 9460583806
- Language: English
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Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America’s Class War
$19.00 Add to cartYears before Hillbilly Elegy and White Trash, a raucous, truth-telling look at the white working poor — and why they have learned to hate liberalism. What it adds up to, he asserts, is an unacknowle… [more below]
- Author: Bageant, Joe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 24 2008
- ISBN10: 0307339378
- Language: English
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Crossing Open Ground
$17.00 Add to cartIn Crossing Open Ground, Barry Lopez weaves an invigorating spell as he searches for meaning and purpose in the natural environment.
Here, he travels through the American Southwest and Alaska, discus- Author: Lopez, Barry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 14 1989
- ISBN10: 0679721835
- Language: English
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Walking Solo but Not Alone
$19.95 Add to cartEvery one of the books I note here is a light, each a gift from someone reaching from another time and place to offer us strength. The human spirit is capable of magnanimity that many of us have not e
- Author: Archibald, Jane Pitkin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 230
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 9798893080735
- Language: English
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How It Feels to Be Alive: Encounters with Art and Our Selves
$29.00 Add to cartA vital testament to how art makes us who we are–and offers new ways of seeing our world and our lives.
Barbara Kruger once defined art as “the ability to show and tell, through a kind of eloquent sh- Author: O’Grady, Megan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 21 2026
- ISBN10: 037461332X
- Language: English
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Flyboy in the Buttermilk: Essays on Contemporary America
$18.00 Read moreA reissue of Greg Tate’s classic, out-of-print collection of essays, with a new introduction by Hanif Abdurraqib and a new foreword by Questlove.
From one of the most original, creative, and provocati- Author: Tate, Greg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 21 2026
- ISBN10: 0374394628
- Language: English
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Eating Words: A Norton Anthology of Food Writing
$34.99 Add to cartEdited by influential literary critic Sandra M. Gilbert and award-winning restaurant critic and professor of English Roger Porter, Eating Words gathers food writing of literary distinction and vast hi
- Author: Gilbert, Sandra M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: November 22 2016
- ISBN10: 0393353516
- Language: English
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The Common Uncommon: A Forest Journey
$28.99 Add to cartFor forty years, Bernd Heinrich has been ensconced in the woods of the northern, or boreal, forest, living in his log cabin amidst a vast sea of spruce, fir, and larch in the mountains of western Main
- Author: Heinrich, Bernd
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 21 2026
- ISBN10: 1324021101
- Language: English
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The Fullness of Time: Marking the Day by Birdsong, Blooms, Shadows, and Stars
$32.00 Add to cartA joyful exploration of the forgotten art of marking time from nature’s daily rhythms and a call to notice the wonders of the living world, wherever you are.
Most of us live fully digitized lives, sta- Author: Haynes, Cathy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 21 2026
- ISBN10: 0593715454
- Language: English
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Israel: What Went Wrong?
$28.00 Add to cartA leading Israeli American scholar of the Holocaust explores and explains his native country’s intensifying turn toward violence and exclusion.
The distinguished historian Omer Bartov was born on a ki- Author: Bartov, Omer
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 21 2026
- ISBN10: 0374618186
- 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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Design and Disability: 10 Tales of Accessible Design
$35.00 Add to cartThis visually rich book celebrates design ingenuity, making the point that inclusive design is better for all
This visually rich book celebrates design ingenuity, acknowledging the significant contri- Author: Kane, Natalie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 1838510575
- Language: English
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Slow Technology Reader: A Tool for Shaping Divergent Futures
$35.00 Add to cartThe third installment in Valiz’s Slow Reader series explores myriad perspectives on technological futures
Published with Slow Research Lab.
Following Slow Reader: A Resource for Design Thinking and Pra- Author: Strauss, Carolyn F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: January 13 2026
- ISBN10: 9493246469
- 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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Lingering Inland: A Literary Tour of the Midwest
$24.95 Add to cartHow do the stories we tell about Midwestern places influence or reflect our experiences? How is the literature of a place or a region relevant to the people who live there? In this expansive anthology… [more below]
- Author: Oler, Andy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: December 23 2025
- ISBN10: 0252088972
- Language: English
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Thinky Thoughts: All Grown Up and Still Just as Confused
$30.00 Add to cartInstant New York Times bestselling author Gwenna Laithland, aka Momma Cusses, is back with a collection of Thinky Thoughts (essays, memories, poems and more!) perfect for readers of Jenny Lawson, Sam
- Author: Laithland, Gwenna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 14 2026
- ISBN10: 1250390028
- Language: English
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Foxes for Everybody: Twenty-Four Hours of Early Motherhood
$22.00 Add to cartMeditations on time, motherhood, and the ordinary beauty of everyday life
Like a newborn’s patterns of sleeping and waking, the revelations of motherhood don’t follow a reasonable schedule, and there- Author: Pierce, Catherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: January 15 2026
- ISBN10: 0810149532
- 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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Famesick: A Memoir
$32.00 Add to cartIn this rowdy, frank reflection on illness, fame, sex, and everything in between, the remarkable mind behind the hit series Girls and the bestselling author of Not That Kind of Girl asks whether fulfi… [more below]
- Author: Dunham, Lena
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 14 2026
- ISBN10: 0593129326
- Language: English
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Where Are the Horses?: A Canter Through COVID-19
$15.95 Add to cartAmidst the pandemic’s devastation and political unrest, these short essays and lyrics offer a raw exploration of daily fears and emotions. As the narrative unfolds, the reader is transported to the wa
- Author: Scagliola, James Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 124
- Publish Date: November 08 2025
- ISBN10: 9798896175971
- Language: English
