Literary Criticism
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Reading Together
$13.95 Add to cartA lively and thoughtful exploration of how book clubs change the way we read.
In this engaging and vivacious memoir, college professor Katarzyna Bartoszyńska thinks back on various book clubs sh- Author: Bartoszynska, Katarzyna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: November 20 2025
- ISBN10: 1958846147
- Language: English
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The Year of Reading Dangerously: How Fifty Great Books (and Two Not-So-Great Ones) Saved My Life
$18.99 Add to cartAn editor and writer’s vivaciously entertaining, and often moving, chronicle of his year-long adventure with fifty great books (and two not-so-great ones)–a true story about reading that reminds us w
- Author: Miller, Andy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 15 2020
- ISBN10: 0061446181
- Language: English
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Timon of Athens
$14.00 Add to cartThe acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series edited by A. R. Braunmuller and Stephen Orgel
The legendary Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with sc- Series: Pelican Shakespeare
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0140714871
- Language: English
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The Amen Corner: A Play
$15.00 Add to cartFrom one of the most brilliant writers of the twentieth century–a masterpiece of the modern American theater: a play about faith and family, about the gulf between black men and black women and black… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Baldwin, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: February 17 1998
- ISBN10: 0375701885
- Language: English
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Incompleteness: New and Selected Essays, 1999 – 2023
$22.95 Add to cartEssays on everything from the music of Joni Mitchell to the declining quality of Bengali food from one of India’s preeminent writers.
“I’m an Indian, so of course I write about India. But then, again,- Author: Chaudhuri, Amit
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: January 06 2026
- ISBN10: 1681379651
- Language: English
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The Lost Folk: From the Forgotten Past to the Emerging Future of Folk
$28.95 Add to cartA fresh and engaging celebration of the customs, places, objects and peoples that make up what we know as “folk.”
By its nature, folk is ephemeral: tricky to define, hard to preserve and even more dif- Author: Macbeth, Lally
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 26 2025
- ISBN10: 0571388302
- Language: English
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What in Me Is Dark: The Revolutionary Afterlife of Paradise Lost
$18.00 Add to cart“Enlightening and enthusiastic.” –Ed Simon, The New York Times Book Review
Now in paperback, a highly original hybrid of literary criticism and political history, telling of the enduring, surprising- Author: Reade, Orlando
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1662603401
- Language: English
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A Compass on the Navigable Sea: 100 Years of World Literature
$26.00 Add to cartCurated from the archives of World Literature Today, this landmark anthology celebrates a century of exploration through pen and ink, and reimagines what international readership can be.
From Nobel lau
- Author: Simon, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 1632064138
- Language: English
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Coriolanus
$15.00 Add to cartThe acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series edited by A. R. Braunmuller and Stephen Orgel
The legendary Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with sc- Series: Pelican Shakespeare
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 10 1999
- ISBN10: 0140714731
- Language: English
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Hell Is Dark with No Flowers, Vol. 4 (Light Novel)
$16.00 Add to cartShiroshi and Seiji receive a letter of challenge from Ibara and head to a certain sleeper train to defeat him and put an end to the competition over Hell. There are six passengers on the luxurious tra… [more below]
- Series: Hell Is Dark with No Flowers (Light Novel) #4
- Author: Michio, Yoru
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: December 30 2025
- ISBN10: 1975379446
- Language: English
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Who’s Allowed to Protest?
$18.99 Add to cartWHO’S ALLOWED TO PROTEST? is the essential guide for understanding why some political voices are amplified, others are silenced, and how the fight over “who’s too elite” to dissent will determine our … [more below]
- Series: Activist Citizens Library
- Author: Robbins, Bruce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 1685892574
- Language: English
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The Writer’s Room: The Hidden Worlds That Shape the Books We Love
$26.95 Add to cartA journey into the unique spaces where some of literature’s greatest writers created their most memorable works
Virginia Woolf famously wrote in A Room of One’s Own that “it is necessary to have five- Author: Lewin, Katie Da Cunha
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 17 2026
- ISBN10: 0691283834
- Language: English
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Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work
$16.95 Add to cartA New York Times Notable Book
A moving and deeply personal account of art and exile from Edwidge Danticat, winner of two National Book Critics Circle Awards–now wi
A Miami Herald Best Book of the Year- Series: Toni Morrison Lecture
- Author: Danticat, Edwidge
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: November 25 2025
- ISBN10: 0691278083
- Language: English
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Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel
$21.00 Add to cartOne of the Washington Post’s 50 Best Nonfiction Books of 2024 A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice A Boston Globe Best Book of 2024
“Ambitious, intelligent, and happily unpretentious.” —Louis- Author: Frank, Edwin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: November 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1250397839
- Language: English
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Dr Johnson and MR Savage
$9.99 Add to cartA classic reissue of Richard Holmes’s brilliant book on Samuel Johnson’s friendship with the poet Richard Savage, which won the James Tait Black Prize for Biography.
Dr Johnson & Mr Savage is the story
- Author: Holmes, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 31 2010
- ISBN10: 0007204558
- Language: English
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Life Is a Dream
$17.00 Add to cartThe masterwork of Spain’s preeminent dramatist–now in a new verse translation
Life Is a Dream is a work many hold to be the supreme example of Spanish Golden Age drama. Imbued with highly poetic langu
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Calderón de la Barca, Pedro
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0143104829
- Language: English
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The Cripple of Inishmaan
$15.00 Add to cartIn 1934, the people of Inishmaan learn that the Hollywood director Robert Flaherty is coming to the neighboring island to film a documentary. No one is more excited than Cripple Billy, an unloved boy … [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: McDonagh, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 08 1998
- ISBN10: 0375705236
- Language: English
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Western Star: The Life and Legends of Larry McMurtry
$35.00 Add to cartBy his longtime friend and a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, the definitive biography of Larry McMurtry, the legendary author and screenwriter of Lonesome Dove, The Last Picture Show, and Brokeback
- Author: Streitfeld, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: March 24 2026
- ISBN10: 0063234882
- Language: English
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Light and Thread
$20.00 Add to cartFrom Nobel Prize winner Han Kang comes her first work of nonfiction published in English–a singular collection of writings including her inspiring Nobel Lecture.
In this light-filled and multi-facete- Author: Kang, Han
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 24 2026
- ISBN10: 9798217155033
- Language: English
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Dorothy Parker in Hollywood
$19.00 Add to cartAn expansive, illuminating, and “welcome addition to understand” (Shelf Awareness) the legendary writer Dorothy Parker, this unique biography explores her life and legacy in Hollywood–from the author… [more below]
- Author: Crowther, Gail
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1982185805
- Language: English
