Essays
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Dreaming in the Fault Zone: A Poetics of Healing
$27.95 Add to cartA virtuosic inquiry into the forms and uses of healing, from ancient and modern medicine to contemporary literature, ecology, and protest.
In the era of the “chronic acute” long predating COVID-19, Ele… [more below]
- Author: Stecopoulos, Eleni
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1643622374
- Language: English
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Listen: The Stages and Studios That Shaped American Music
$19.98 Add to cartAn extraordinary archive of the most iconic sites on the American musical landscape.
Prompted by the closing of New York’s famed CBGB, Rhona Bitner embarked on a thirteen-year journey to photograph 40- Author: Bitner, Rhona
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 0789345722
- Language: English
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Bad Law: Ten Popular Laws That Are Ruining America
$26.99 Add to cartIn this New York Times bestseller, Elie Mystal offers a brilliant takedown of ten shocking pieces of legislation that continue to perpetuate hate, racial bias, injustice, and inequality today–an urge… [more below]
- Author: Mystal, Elie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 162097858X
- Language: English
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Treenotes: A Year in the Company of Trees
$24.00 Add to cartFrom an esteemed National Geographic explorer and forest ecologist, a charming collection of thought-provoking essays exploring the meaning of trees in our lives.
Telephone poles, baseball bats, railr- Author: Nadkarni, Nalini
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: February 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1426224419
- Language: English
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Governing by Fake News: 30 Years of Fake News in the West
$26.99 Add to cartWhat are the facts that the Islamic State is seeking to create a civil war in France; that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad used chemical weapons; that Vladimir Putin is trying to destabilise our demo… [more below]
- Author: Baud, Jacques
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 382
- Publish Date: September 27 2023
- ISBN10: 2315010713
- Language: English
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Why I Dyed My Hair Purple and Other Unorthodox Stories
$23.99 Add to cartCan creative works reveal biblical truth?
As a senior in college, Kori Morgan, who had spent most of her life as an atheist, became a Christian. But as a fiction writer who had grown up in a family whe
- Author: Morgan, Kori
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 124
- Publish Date: January 21 2025
- ISBN10: 9798988870241
- Language: English
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Get in the Game: Sports, Art, Culture
$24.95 Add to cart“An informative read from first page to last”–Midwest Book Review
Get in the Game unfolds the many ways that sports shape culture, bringing people together in shared emotional and physical experience- Author: The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 1962098036
- Language: English
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The Older You Get, the Shorter Your Stories Should Be
$24.99 Add to cart“Bob Bowie’s reflections on his well-lived and adventurous life are charming, funny, poignant and wise. This book is a real pleasure to read.”
– Drew Faust
President Emerita, Harvard University
“Bob Bow
- Author: Bowie, Robert R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 308
- Publish Date: September 20 2024
- ISBN10: 162806420X
- Language: English
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My Life with Bob: Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues
$19.99 Add to cartPeople Pick – O Magazine Title to Pick Up Now – Vanity Fair Hot Type – Glamour New Book You’re Guaranteed to Love This Summer – LitHub.com Best Book about Books – Buzzfeed Book You Need to Read This S
- Author: Paul, Pamela
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1250182549
- Language: English
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Immemorial
$17.95 Add to cart“Markham delivers a probing meditation on grief, memory, and memorialization… Plaintive and powerful, this is hard to forget.”–Publishers Weekly
A speculative essay on language in the face of climat… [more below]
- Series: Undelivered Lectures
- Author: Markham, Lauren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 9798893389036
- Language: English
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We Are Animals: On the Nature and Politics of Motherhood
$19.95 Add to cartWhen Jennifer Case became pregnant unexpectedly with her second child, she was overwhelmed at the prospect of caring for another child in a society with high expectations and low support for mothers.
- Author: Case, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 1595343016
- Language: English
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Black Friend: Essays
$16.00 Add to cartFrom the writer crowned one of the smartest, funniest voices in modern America, this hotly anticipated debut collection of essays offers “a precious glimpse into how Ziwe’s uniquely fearless mind func… [more below]
- Author: Ziwe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1419777971
- Language: English
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Wave of Blood
$16.00 Add to cartWrestling with the mind of war, at times shocking in its self-analysis, WAVE OF BLOOD is a furious, strange and sincere essay, an eclipse notebook, a family chronicle, all told in the poetry of witnes… [more below]
- Author: Reines, Ariana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: January 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1739516141
- Language: English
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Feeding a Divided America: Reflections of a Western Rancher in the Era of Climate Change
$24.95 Add to cartIn Feeding a Divided America, third-generation Montana rancher and international agriculture development specialist Gilles Stockton explores the causes of what he refers to as the “rural-urban divide
- Series: New Century Gardens and Landscapes of the American Southwest
- Author: Stockton, Gilles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: May 15 2024
- ISBN10: 0826366104
- Language: English
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The Picture Not Taken: On Life and Photography
$18.95 Add to cartAn ecologically minded collection of essays in the vein of Rebecca Solnit and Susan Sontag, covering everything from the equipment of photography to the difficulties of perception itself.
In The Pictu- Author: Swett, Benjamin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 1681378639
- Language: English
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Notes from the Porch: Tiny True Stories to Make You Feel Better about the World
$14.99 Add to cartSilver Winner, Inspirational, 2025 IBPA Book Award
Silver Winner, Creative Nonfiction, 2024 IPNE Award
From the author of the international bestseller The Headmaster’s Wife and other novels comes a coll
- Author: Greene, Thomas Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 142
- Publish Date: September 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1578691796
- Language: English
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At Wit’s End: Cartoonists of the New Yorker
$35.00 Add to cartAn exclusive sneak peek inside the creative minds of more than 50 New Yorker cartoonists, celebrating legends and newcomers alike with stunning photography and engaging profiles.
For a century, The Ne- Author: Macweeney, Alen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 0593581059
- Language: English
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A Not Entirely Benign Procedure: Four Years as a Medical Student
$27.00 Add to cart“Fascinating… Klass writes with wit, intelligence, and a great deal of insight.”–The New York Times Book Review
Acclaimed pediatrician, journalist, and novelist Perri Klass offers a provocative loo- Author: Klass, Perri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 01 1994
- ISBN10: 0452272580
- Language: English
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Clover Garden: A Carolinian’s Piedmont Memoir
$26.00 Add to cartBetween North Carolina’s coastal plain and the Blue Ridge Mountains lies the Piedmont: some 250 linear miles of rolling, long-settled lands covering almost half of the state. Geologically speaking, pi… [more below]
- Author: Simpson, Bland
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 1469682893
- Language: English
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Disappearing the President: Trump, Truth Social, and the Fight for the Republic
$32.99 Add to cart“Lee Smith is a great American patriot who has understood, from the very beginning, that the radical left is the true THREAT TO DEMOCRACY.”
—Donald Trump, former president of the United States
From Le
- Author: Smith, Lee
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 1641774576
- Language: English
