Literary Collections
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Peer Gynt and Brand
$17.00 Read moreA new Penguin edition of Ibsen’s two great verse plays, in masterful versions by one of our greatest living poets, Geoffrey Hill.
These two powerful and contrasting verse dramas by Ibsen made his rep- Author: Ibsen, Henrik
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 07 2017
- ISBN10: 0141197587
- Language: English
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Can We All Be Feminists?: New Writing from Brit Bennett, Nicole Dennis-Benn, and 15 Others on Intersectionality, Identity, and the Way Forward f
$18.00 Read more“As timely as it is well-written, this clear-eyed collection is just what I need right now.” –Jacqueline Woodson, author of Brown Girl Dreaming
“The intersectional feminist anthology we all need to r- Author: Eric-Udorie, June
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 25 2018
- ISBN10: 0143132377
- Language: English
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The Complete Aeschylus: Volume I: The Oresteia
$16.98 Add to cartBased on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New … [more below]
- Series: Greek Tragedy in New Translations (Paperback)
- Author: Aeschylus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 04 2011
- ISBN10: 0199753636
- Language: English
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A Susan Sontag Reader
$30.99 Add to cartSusan Sontag occupies a special place in Modern American letters. She has become our most important critic, while her brilliant novels and short fiction are, at long last, getting the recognition they
- Author: Sontag, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: September 01 1982
- ISBN10: 0374535477
- Language: English
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Mark Twain’s Helpful Hints for Good Living: A Handbook for the Damned Human Race
$27.43 Add to cartIrreverent, charming, eminently quotable, this handbook–an eccentric etiquette guide for the human race–contains sixty-nine aphorisms, anecdotes, whimsical suggestions, maxims, and cautionary tales … [more below]
- Series: Jumping Frogs: Undiscovered, Rediscovered, and Celebrated Wr #2
- Author: Twain, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 207
- Publish Date: October 18 2004
- ISBN10: 0520242459
- Language: English
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In Conversation, 2020-2021: Dialogues with Artists, Curators, and Scholars
$30.00 Read moreCollected Zoom transcripts from critical talks held by artists and thinkers during lockdown
Compiling deep-dive conversations originally broadcast live on Zoom during the height of the pandemic, this v
- Author: Byers, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 172
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1735230537
- Language: English
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Patricia Highsmith’s Diaries and Notebooks: The New York Years, 1941-1950
$22.00 Read moreBefore Alfred Hitchcock adapted her debut novel, Strangers on a Train, for the big screen; before her suave and sociopathic Thomas Ripley snaked his way into the canon of psychological suspense; and b… [more below]
- Author: Highsmith, Patricia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1324092947
- Language: English
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Uncollected Works: Oscar Acosta
$14.95 Read moreThis milestone collection gathers unpublished stories, essays, letters, poems and a teleplay written by Acosta (1935-1974), the legendary Chicano attorney, political activist and writer, between the e… [more below]
- Author: Acosta, Oscar Zeta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: May 01 1996
- ISBN10: 1558850996
- Language: English
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On Being Blue: A Philosophical Inquiry
$15.95 Read moreOn Being Blue is a book about everything blue–sex and sleaze and sadness, among other things–and about everything else. It brings us the world in a word as only William H. Gass, among contemporary A… [more below]
- Series: New York Review Books (Paperback)
- Author: Gass, William H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: March 11 2014
- ISBN10: 1590177185
- Language: English
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The End of White World Supremacy: Four Speeches
$19.99 Read moreThe classic collection of major speeches, now bundled with an audio download of Malcolm X delivering two of them.
Malcolm X remains a touchstone figure for black America and in American culture at la- Author: X, Malcolm
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: February 11 2020
- ISBN10: 1628728299
- Language: English
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Against Memoir: Complaints, Confessions & Criticisms
$18.95 Read moreThe PEN Award-winning essay collection about queer lives: “Gorgeously punk-rock rebellious.”–The A.V. Club
The razor-sharp but damaged Valerie Solanas, a doomed lesbian biker gang, recovering alcohol
- Author: Tea, Michelle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: May 08 2018
- ISBN10: 1936932180
- Language: English
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The Mausoleum of Lovers: Journals 1976-1991: Journals 1976-1991
$24.95 Read moreThe Mausoleum of Lovers comprises Guibert’s journals, kept from 1976-1991. Functioning as an atelier, it forecasts the writing of a novel, which does not materialize as such; the journal itself — a m… [more below]
- Author: Guibert, Hervé
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 584
- Publish Date: May 01 2014
- ISBN10: 1937658228
- Language: English
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Watermark
$17.00 Add to cartIn this brief, intense, gemlike book, equal parts extended autobiographical essay and prose poem, Joseph Brodsky turns his eye to the seductive and enigmatic city of Venice. A mosaic of forty-eight sh
- Series: FSG Classics
- Author: Brodsky, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 12 2020
- ISBN10: 0374539049
- Language: English
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My Life as a Villainess: Essays
$18.99 Read moreNew York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman, a journalist for many years, collects here her recent essays exploring motherhood as an older mom, her life as a reader, her relationships with her par
- Author: Lippman, Laura
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 04 2020
- ISBN10: 0062997335
- Language: English
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Plastic: An Autobiography
$19.95 Read moreWINNER of the 2022 Oregon Book Award for Creative Nonfiction!
WINNER of the 2022 CLMP Firecracker Award in Creative Nonfiction!
“Plastic is powerful and moving, a deep, personal exploration of the moder
- Author: Cobb, Allison
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 20 2021
- ISBN10: 164362038X
- Language: English
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The Witch of Eye
$17.95 Read moreThis amazingly wise and nimble collection investigates the horrors inflicted on so-called “witches” of the past. The Witch of Eye unearths salves, potions, and spells meant to heal, yet interpreted by… [more below]
- Author: Nuernberger, Kathryn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 16 2021
- ISBN10: 1946448702
- Language: English
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Horse Girls: Recovering, Aspiring, and Devoted Riders Redefine the Iconic Bond
$17.00 Read more“A wild, rollicking ride into the heart of horse country–these essays get at what it means to love horses, in all that love’s complexity.” –Anton DiSclafani, author of The Yonahlossee Riding Camp fo
- Author: Marcus, Halimah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 03 2021
- ISBN10: 0063009250
- Language: English
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King’s Counsellor: Abdication and War: The Diaries of Sir Alan Lascelles Edited by Duff Hart-Davis
$22.99 Read more‘Brilliantly entertaining and historically priceless’ Spectator
‘Fascinating … as much a contribution to royal legend as to the history of the war’ Daily Telegraph As Assistant Private Secretary to- Author: Lascelles, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 1474618200
- Language: English
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Letters to Gwen John
$29.95 Read moreWith original artworks throughout, an extraordinary fusion of memoir and artistic biography from the acclaimed artist and author of Self-Portrait.
Dearest Gwen, I know this letter to you is an artific- Author: Paul, Celia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 26 2022
- ISBN10: 1681376407
- Language: English
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Still No Word from You: Notes in the Margin
$26.00 Read moreFinalist for the Vermont Book Award
A new collection of pieces on literature and life by the author of Am I Alone Here?, a fin
Finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay- Author: Orner, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1646221362
- Language: English
