Essays
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Here’s What I Need You to Know: Essays on Marriage, Motherhood, and the Mundane
$26.95 Add to cartMany women have been there: juggling motherhood, a job, volunteer work, and chauffeuring kids to school and sports practices (a job in itself); it’s enough to send anyone running for the hills. In Her… [more below]
- Author: Franklin, Shari
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 188
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 1957723327
- Language: English
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Happy to Help: Adventures of a People Pleaser
$29.00 Add to cartA Brit&Co Most Anticipated Books of 2025
Amy Wilson, co-host of the award-winning podcast What Fresh Hell, takes a funny and insightful look at how women are conditioned to be “happy to help”–and wha
- Author: Wilson, Amy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1958506796
- Language: English
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Holding the Note: Profiles in Popular Music
$19.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER – The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and editor of The New Yorker gathers his writing on some of the essential musicians of our time–intimate portraits of Leonard Cohen,… [more below]
- Author: Remnick, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 30 2024
- ISBN10: 0375702318
- Language: English
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Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers
$17.00 Add to cartNow 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- Author: Wolfe, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 27 2024
- ISBN10: 1250321883
- Language: English
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I’ll Love You Forever: Notes from a K-Pop Fan
$28.99 Add to cartJia Tolentino’s Trick Mirror meets Cathy Park Hong’s Minor Feelings in a meditation that blends memoir and cultural criticism to explore how the author’s love affair with K-pop has shaped her sense of
- Author: Kwon, Giaae
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1250886236
- Language: English
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The Lies of the Artists: Essays on Italian Art, 1450-1750
$39.95 Read moreLuminous essays on artists of the Italian Renaissance by one of our most inspired writers on the history and making of art.
In the three centuries from 1450 to 1750 painters, sculptors, and architects
- Author: Rowland, Ingrid D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: December 17 2024
- ISBN10: 0262549093
- Language: English
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In My Remaining Years
$29.99 Add to cartA collection of darkly humorous, intensely personal essays by cult fave and multi-hyphenate artist Jean Grae
In My Remaining Years, by creative juggernaut Jean Grae, debunks the myth that coming-of-ag- Author: Grae, Jean
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1250857538
- Language: English
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I Dream of Joni: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell in 53 Snapshots
$29.99 Add to cartThe eternal singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell is seen anew, portrayed through a witty and comprehensive exploration of anecdotes, quotes, and lyrics by Henry Alford, “the most graceful of humorists” (Va… [more below]
- Author: Alford, Henry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1668019507
- Language: English
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A Room of One’s Own
$14.99 Add to cart- Author: Woolf, Virginia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1509843183
- Language: English
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You Didn’t Hear This from Me: (Mostly) True Notes on Gossip
$30.00 Add to cart“Gossip is the only cultural tradition I care about, and Kelsey McKinney has written its Bible” – Samantha Irby, #1 NYT bestselling author
A delightfully insightful exploration of our obsession with g- Author: McKinney, Kelsey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1538757400
- Language: English
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A Town Without Time: Gay Talese’s New York
$29.99 Add to cartFrom 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
- Author: Talese, Gay
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: December 03 2024
- ISBN10: 0063392186
- Language: English
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Y2K: How the 2000s Became Everything (Essays on the Future That Never Was)
$29.99 Add to cartPerfect 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
- Author: Shade, Colette
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 0063333945
- Language: English
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The Harder I Fight the More I Love You: A Memoir
$30.00 Add to cartFrom a beloved Grammy-nominated musician, a “heartbreaking and funny” memoir of a poverty-stricken childhood, obsessive desires, and indispensable friendships that reflects on the way art and music an
- Author: Case, Neko
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1538710501
- Language: English
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A Bestiary
$16.00 Add to cartLiterary Nonfiction. Essays. Winner of the 2015 Essay Collection Competition, Selected by Wayne Koestenbaum.
Rarely have I come across tenderness, venom, and fire held so intimately, so exquisitely, a… [more below]
- Author: Hoang, Lily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 156
- Publish Date: April 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0996316744
- Language: English
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Woodswoman II
$16.95 Add to cartAnne LaBastille found peace and solitude in the log cabin she built for herself at Black Bear Lake. But as the years passed, the outside world intruded in various ways: curious fans, after reading her
- Author: Labastille, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 17 2000
- ISBN10: 0393320596
- Language: English
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The Green Imperative: Ecology and Ethics in Design and Architecture
$16.95 Add to cartWhether it’s horror at the plastic littering the world’s beaches or despair at the melting polar ice caps, the world is gradually waking up to the impending climate disaster. In The Green Imperative,
- Author: Papanek, Victor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0500296197
- Language: English
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Christian Reflections
$17.99 Read moreShortly after his conversion in 1929, C. S. Lewis wrote to a friend, “When all is said (and truly said) about the divisions of Christendom, there remains, by God’s mercy, an enormous common ground.” F… [more below]
- Author: Lewis, C. S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 233
- Publish Date: October 22 2014
- ISBN10: 0802871844
- Language: English
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Ayoade on Ayoade: A Cinematic Odyssey
$16.95 Add to cartIn this book Richard Ayoade — actor, writer, director, and amateur dentist — reflects on his cinematic legacy as only he can: in conversation with himself. Over ten brilliantly insightful and often … [more below]
- Author: Ayoade, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 13 2016
- ISBN10: 0571316530
- 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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The Solzhenitsyn Reader: New and Essential Writings, 1947-2005
$35.00 Add to cartThis reader, compiled by renowned Solzhenitsyn scholars Edward E. Ericson, Jr., and Daniel J. Mahoney in collaboration with the Solzhenitsyn family, provides in one volume a rich and representative se… [more below]
- Author: Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 679
- Publish Date: January 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1935191551
- Language: English
