Essays
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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
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Good Bones: Glorious Relics from the Age of Reading
$18.00 Add to cartThe heyday of reading is probably behind us, but in these shrewd and witty essays Brooke Allen examines the relics of the saints (and sinners) who made it what it was. Focused as much on literary live
- Author: Allen, Brooke
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 262
- Publish Date: November 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1966218125
- Language: English
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Field Notes: The Grace Note of the Canyon Wren
$18.00 Add to cartIn this collection of twelve stories, Barry Lopez–the National Book Award-winning author of Arctic Dreams and one of our most admired writers–evokes the longing we feel for beauty in our relationshi… [more below]
- Author: Lopez, Barry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 08 2004
- ISBN10: 1400075122
- Language: English
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For Marx
$29.95 Add to cartThis is the work in which Louis Althusser formulated some of his most influential ideas. For Marx, first published in France in 1968, has come to be regarded as the founding text of the school of “str… [more below]
- Series: Radical Thinkers
- Author: Althusser, Louis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 17 2006
- ISBN10: 184467052X
- 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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Hey Yang, Where’s My Thousand Bucks?: And Other True Stories of Staggering Depth
$26.95 Add to cartIN THIS FRANK, OFTEN HILARIOUS COLLECTION OF TRUE STORIES, political trailblazer Andrew Yang examines America’s breakdown through the lens of his unexpected journey from entrepreneur to presidential
- Author: Yang, Andrew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 1636142796
- Language: English
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Alphapussy: How I Survived the Valley and Learned to Love My Boobs
$26.95 Add to cartFrom a wayward California girl growing up in the heart of the porn-born San Fernando Valley, Gina Gershon found herself on a journey that has been anything but traditional. Along the way, she had to l
- Author: Gershon, Gina
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 03 2026
- ISBN10: 1636142818
- Language: English
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In Trees: An Exploration
$30.00 Add to cartFrom the acclaimed author of the New York Times bestseller On Trails comes a wondrous new journey through the wilds of nature and the gnarls of history, exploring how trees—from the mightiest sequoia… [more below]
- Author: Moor, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 07 2026
- ISBN10: 1476739250
- 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
