Literary Criticism
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By: Edith Hamilton
Mythology (75th Anniversary Illustrated Edition): Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes
$32.00HardcoverAdd to cartThis deluxe edition of the world’s most beloved, bestselling classic on Greek, Roman, and Norse mythology is stunningly illustrated with specially commissioned full-color plates and a beautiful gold-b… [more below]
- Author: Hamilton, Edith
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 26 2017
- ISBN10: 0316438529
- Language: English
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By: George Saunders
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
$20.00PaperbackAdd to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – From the Booker Prize-winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth of December comes a literary master class on what makes great stories work and what they can tell us
- Author: Saunders, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 12, 2022
- ISBN10: 1984856030
- Language: English
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By: James Baldwin
Notes of a Native Son
$16.00PaperbackAdd to cart#26 on The Guardian’s list of 100 best nonfiction books of all time, the essays explore what it means to be Black in America
In an age of Black Lives Matter, James Baldwin’s essays on life in Harlem,- Author: Baldwin, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 20 2012
- ISBN10: 0807006238
- Language: English
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The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever
$21.99PaperbackAdd to cartChristopher Hitchens’s personally curated New York Times bestselling anthology of the most influential and important writings on atheism, including original pieces by Salman Rushdie and Ian McEwan
From… [more below]- Author: Hitchens, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: November 06 2007
- ISBN10: 0306816083
- Language: English
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By: Maya Angelou
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
$19.00PaperbackAdd to cartMaya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Her life story is told in the documentary film And Still I Rise, as seen on PBS’s American Masters.
Here is a book as joyous- Author: Angelou, Maya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 21 2009
- ISBN10: 0812980026
- Language: English
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By: Falmaro
New Game Plus After Defeating the Last Boss, Vol. 2 (Light Novel): All These Beautiful, Problematic Girls in the First Town Have Gotten Really Attache
$16.00PaperbackAdd to cartBEAUTIES FROM MIGHT’S PAST AND PRESENT CLASH! Touwa Akatsuki Illustration by Falmaro Touwa Akatsuki Illustration by Falmaro 2 Might has gone from being a legendary level-99 Thief to a young level-1 Sa… [more below]
- Series: New Game Plus After Defeating the Last Boss #2
- Author: Falmaro
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: June 09 2026
- ISBN10: 9798855422047
- Language: English
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The Bs Situation of Tougetsu Umidori, Vol. 4 (Light Novel): Volume 4
$16.00PaperbackAdd to cartOn a fall day, Bullshit-chan takes Tougetsu Umidori to the mall. She’s acting odd–and has something to tell Umidori. But the sinister Mud Hat Faction is after them! Umidori with cat ears, Bullshit-ch… [more below]
- Series: The Bs Situation of Tougetsu Umidori #4
- Author: Ryouseirui, Kaeru
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: May 12 2026
- ISBN10: 9798855407730
- Language: English
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Henry VI, Part 3
$14.00PaperbackAdd 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: 176
- Publish Date: December 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0140714677
- Language: English
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By: Nelson, Maggie
Pathemata, Or, the Story of My Mouth
$20.00PaperbackAdd to cart***Longlisted for the 2025 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay***
Pathemata, Or, The Story of My Mouth is an experiment in interiority written in the pandemic studio. Something of… [more below]
- Author: Nelson, Maggie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: April 07 2026
- ISBN10: 9798891060388
- Language: English
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By: Andrews, Kerri
Way Makers: An Anthology of Women’s Writing about Walking
$18.95PaperbackAdd to cartA sweeping collection of women’s writing on the wandering path, moving across genres, geographies, and centuries.
The follow-up to the celebrated Wanderers, Kerri Andrews’s Way Makers is the first an- Author: Andrews, Kerri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: May 06 2026
- ISBN10: 1836392044
- Language: English
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By: Briante, Susan
Defacing the Monument
$21.00PaperbackRead moreDefacing the Monument opens with the narration of an Operation Streamline hearing, a proceeding during which as many as 75 undocumented migrants are criminally prosecuted and sentenced en masse to ser
- Author: Briante, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 162
- Publish Date: August 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1934819905
- Language: English
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By: Foran, Scott M.
Shadow Side of Grace: The Nekyia of Flannery O’Connor’s Wise Blood
$27.00PaperbackAdd to cart- Series: Flannery O’Connor
- Author: Foran, Scott M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 207
- Publish Date: May 05 2026
- ISBN10: 9798897360260
- Language: English
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By: Williams, Saul
Songs My Mother Taught Me: Why the Artist Must Take Sides
$17.95PaperbackRead moreAward-winning poet and performer Saul Williams explores how artists today must respond to systemic violence and injustice–in the words of Paul Robeson, by choosing sides.
Songs My Mother Taught Me i
- Series: Vanguard
- Author: Williams, Saul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: September 08 2026
- ISBN10: 9798888905845
- Language: English
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Why You Should Read Children’s Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise
$17.99HardcoverRead more
Katherine R
A celebration, in a pocket-sized format, of the joys and vital importance of children’s literature for adult readers, from the #1 New York Times Bestselling author of Impossible Creatures.- Author: Rundell, Katherine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: September 01 2026
- ISBN10: 9798217230747
- Language: English
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By: Bailey, James
Like a Cat Loves a Bird: The Nine Lives of Muriel Spark
$29.95HardcoverAdd to cart“A deeply stylish, astute, and illuminating portrait of a fascinating writer.”–Francesca Wade, author of Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife
A spiky and delicious new literary portrait of the great twentiet- Author: Bailey, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 09 2026
- ISBN10: 0691290172
- Language: English
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The Masnavi, Book Six
$13.99PaperbackAdd to cart‘Until effaced no one can actually
Rumi is the greatest mystic poet to ha
Enter the Court of Holy Majesty.
What is the meaning of the heavenly ascension?
Non-being: the mystics’ law school and religion.’- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Rumi, Jalal Al-Din
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: December 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0192874284
- Language: English
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Simulations
$13.95PaperbackRead moreBaudrillard’s bewildering thesis, a bold extrapolation on Ferdinand de Saussure’s general theory of general linguistics, is in fact a clinical vision of contemporary consumer societies where signs don… [more below]
- Series: Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents
- Author: Baudrillard, Jean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 01 1983
- ISBN10: 0936756020
- Language: English
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Spider-Man: Miles Morales
$14.95PaperbackRead moreExplore the Stories Behind the Legends
First introduced in 2011 by Brian Michael Bendis and Sara Pichelli, Miles Morales reconceived Spider-Man as African American and Latinx, and his debut marked a n- Series: Marvel Age of Comics
- Author: Womack, Ytasha L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: June 25 2026
- ISBN10: 9798765131633
- Language: English
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By: Various
Early American Writing
$26.00PaperbackAdd to cartDrawing materials from journals and diaries, political documents and religious sermons, prose and poetry, Giles Gunn’s anthology provides a panoramic survey of early American life and literature–incl… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Various
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: February 01 1994
- ISBN10: 0140390871
- Language: English
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By: Rugg, Jim
Wolverine: Weapon X
$14.95PaperbackAdd to cartExplore the Stories Behind the Legends
Naked, bloody, and screaming in pain – this is the Wolverine that faced readers in the story arc Weapon X. This was more than just the tale of how Wolverine got- Series: Marvel Age of Comics
- Author: Rugg, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 11 2026
- ISBN10: 9798765138762
- Language: English















