Essays
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I’ll Have What She’s Having
$34.00 Add to cartIn hilarious and tender essays, #1 New York Times bestselling author Chelsea Handler shares her unforgettable story of becoming the woman she always wanted to be.
There’s a woman I want to become, Ch- Author: Handler, Chelsea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 25 2025
- ISBN10: 9.79822E+12
- Language: English
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My Time Among the Whites: Notes from an Unfinished Education
$18.00 Add to cartFrom the author of Make Your Home Among Strangers, essays on being an “accidental” American–an incisive look at the edges of identity for a woman of color in a society centered on whiteness
In this s- Author: Crucet, Jennine Cap?
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 03 2019
- ISBN10: 1250299438
- Language: English
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Nights at the Red Steinway: Adventures in Jazz Piano, from the Wall Street Journal and Elsewhere
$34.95 Read moreThrough curated essays, readers will experience a deeply personal and engaging survey of key figures in jazz in the book that Publishers Weekly calls “a cheerful celebration of an uniquely American mu
- Author: Friedwald, Will
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1493084127
- Language: English
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Hope Is the Thing with Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds
$27.00 Add to cartA prizewinning poet and nature writer weaves together natural history, biology, sociology, and personal narrative to tell the story of the lives, habitats, and deaths of six extinct bird species.
Autho… [more below]
- Author: Cokinos, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 14 2009
- ISBN10: 1585427225
- Language: English
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In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing
$16.95 Read moreFour “pitch-perfect” (Oprah Daily) essays by the author of My Brilliant Friend and The Lost Daughter.
In these four crisp essays, Ferrante offers a rare look into the origins of her literary prowess. S
- Author: Ferrante, Elena
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1609458249
- Language: English
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Yoke and Feather
$17.95 Add to cartMay you braid back the hair of the girl who asks you to; may your lips brush other lips in an almost-kiss; when the chickens are gone, may you sow the coop in arugula; may the fogged-in mountain roads
- Author: Van Eerden, Jessie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 212
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 0984213368
- Language: English
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Around the World in Eighty Games: From Tarot to Tic-Tac-Toe, Catan to Chutes and Ladders, a Mathematician Unlocks the Secrets of the World’s Greatest
$19.99 Add to cartA “fun” and “unexpected” (The Economist) global tour of the world’s greatest games and the mathematics that underlies them
Where should you move first in Connect 4? What is the best property in Mono- Author: Du Sautoy, Marcus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1541606337
- Language: English
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Magic Art
$95.00 Add to cartBreton’s late treatise on magic and art appears for the first time in English, complete with citations, commentaries and a bibliography
What is “Magic Art”? In 1953, Andr? Breton, founder of the Surrea
- Author: Breton, Andre
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 350
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1399971182
- Language: English
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Back Where I Came from: On Culture, Identity, and Home
$22.00 Add to cartIn this collection of personal essays, twenty-six writers from across North America share journeys back to their motherlands as visitors. Set against mountainous terrain, tropical beaches, bustling ci
- Series: Essais
- Author: Jaffer, Taslim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 214
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1771669179
- Language: English
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Milkweed and Honey Cake: A Memoir in Ritual Moments
$22.00 Add to cartIn Milkweed and Honey Cake: A Memoir in Ritual Moments, Wendy A. Horwitz shares stories about celebration, loss, change, and the best way to open a pomegranate.
Holidays delight – and disappoint. A cou
- Author: Horwitz, Wendy A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1684352304
- Language: English
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The View from Flyover Country: Dispatches from the Forgotten America
$19.99 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES and MIBA BESTSELLER
From the St. Louis-based journalist often credited with first predicting Donald Trump’s presidential victory. “A collection of sharp-edged, humanistic pieces about t- Author: Kendzior, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 17 2018
- ISBN10: 1250189993
- Language: English
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A Room of One’s Own: Introduction by Merve Emre
$27.00 Add to cartA Contemporary Classics hardcover edition of Virginia Woolf’s classic plea for a world in which women are free to use their gifts.
In this influential extended essay, Woolf outlines what women need in- Series: Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics
- Author: Woolf, Virginia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1101908505
- Language: English
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Good Game, No Rematch: A Life Made of Video Games
$28.00 Add to cartA hilarious, heartfelt and nostalgic memoir about the classic video games that entertain and inspire us, and even hold the power to transform our lives, from an Emmy(R)-nominated television writer, st… [more below]
- Author: Drucker, Mike
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1335012699
- Language: English
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Pronoun Trouble: The Story of Us in Seven Little Words
$28.00 Add to cartWith his trademark humor and flair, bestselling linguist John McWhorter busts the myths and shares the history of the most controversial language topic of our times: pronouns
The nature of language is- Author: McWhorter, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 0593713281
- Language: English
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Saul Goodman V. Jimmy McGill: The Complete Critical Companion to Better Call Saul
$30.00 Add to cartThe complete critical companion to AMC’s Emmy- and Golden Globe-nominated series Better Call Saul from the author of Breaking Bad 101 and The Sopranos Sessions
“If you love Better Call Saul this book- Author: Sepinwall, Alan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 141977719X
- Language: English
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Slither: How Nature’s Most Maligned Creatures Illuminate Our World
$30.00 Add to cartA spellbinding scientific and cultural study of snakes, the fascination and fear they inspire, and how surprising new science is indelibly changing our perception of these stunning and frightening cre
- Author: Hall, Stephen S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 22 2025
- ISBN10: 1538741334
- Language: English
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A Passing West: Essays from the Borderlands
$24.95 Read moreA unique, unmistakable voice in American fiction, Dagoberto Gilb is also a singular writer of personal and journalistic essays. In A Passing West he casts a penetrating gaze upon the culture and histo
- Author: Gilb, Dagoberto
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 0826366821
- Language: English
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Letters from a Stoic
$9.99 Add to cartHarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.
No man can live a happy life, or even a supportable life, without the study of wisdom
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4
- Series: Collins Classics
- Author: Seneca, Lucius Annaeus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 12 2021
- ISBN10: 0008425043
- Language: English
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The Snarling Girl and Other Essays
$28.95 Add to cartIn sixteen essays published over the past decade, acclaimed novelist Elisa Albert considers everything from the creative process to reproductive justice, ambition to Ani DiFranco, Judaism to the ethos
- Author: Albert, Elisa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 194
- Publish Date: August 27 2024
- ISBN10: 1960988069
- Language: English
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Stories from the Trail: Field Notes on Moving through the Wild
$20.00 Add to cartAn Anthology Edited by Heidi Barr and Connor Wolfe. Featuring Essays from: Chris La Tray, Ana Maria Spagna, Stephen Trimble, Heidi Barr, Iris Graville, Derick Lugo, Holly Scherer, Abby Braithwaite, Me
- Author: Barr, Heidi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 118
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1956368868
- Language: English
