Literary Criticism
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In the Shadow of Girls in Blossom
$13.99 Add to cart‘I was at one of those periods in youth–vacant, without any particular love object–when, like a lover seeing his beloved in all things, we desire, we seek, we see Beauty everywhere.’
In the Shadow o- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Proust, Marcel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: June 12 2025
- ISBN10: 0192845675
- Language: English
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The Living Fire: New and Selected Poems
$26.00 Add to cartA comprehensive selection of one of our most beloved poet’s rich and significant body of work alongside a gathering of “brilliant, deeply pleasurable” new poems (Booklist).
- Author: Hirsch, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 20 2011
- ISBN10: 0375710035
- Language: English
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The Strange History of Samuel Pepys’s Diary
$29.95 Add to cartDuring the 1660s, Samuel Pepys kept a secret diary full of intimate details and political scandal. Had the contents been revealed, they could have destroyed his marriage, ended his career, and seen hi… [more below]
- Author: Loveman, Kate
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 254
- Publish Date: April 24 2025
- ISBN10: 1009554115
- Language: English
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Mean Dads for a Better America: The Generous Rewards of an Old-Fashioned Childhood
$15.99 Add to cartAs a comedian and conservative thinker, whip-smart funny Tom Shillue grounds his ideas about our current culture and political climate in stories from his childhood — a portrait of growing up in 197
- Author: Shillue, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 09 2021
- ISBN10: 006265618X
- Language: English
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Sylvia Wynter: On Being Human as PRAXIS
$43.43 Add to cartThe Jamaican writer and cultural theorist Sylvia Wynter is best known for her diverse writings that pull together insights from theories in history, literature, science, and black studies, to explore … [more below]
- Author: McKittrick, Katherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 07 2015
- ISBN10: 0822358344
- Language: English
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The Politics of Collecting: Race and the Aestheticization of Property
$43.43 Add to cartIn The Politics of Collecting, Eunsong Kim traces how racial capitalism and colonialism situated the rise of US museum collections and conceptual art forms. Investigating historical legal and property… [more below]
- Author: Kim, Eunsong
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: August 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1478030488
- Language: English
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Celtic Mythology: The Gods, Goddesses, and Heroes Handbook
$16.99 Add to cartDiscover the gods, goddesses, heroes, and monsters from Celtic mythology with this beautiful book that captures the ancient stories and tales that captivated the Celts.
Prepare to be entertained as yo- Series: World Mythology and Folklore
- Author: Hegarty, Sorcha
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 19 2025
- ISBN10: 1507223889
- Language: English
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Erosion: American Environments and the Anxiety of Disappearance
$41.93 Add to cartIn Erosion, Gina Caison traces how American authors and photographers have grappled with soil erosion as a material reality that shapes narratives of identity, belonging, and environment. Examining ca… [more below]
- Author: Caison, Gina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: November 08 2024
- ISBN10: 1478031166
- Language: English
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Giving an Account of Oneself: Twentieth Anniversary Edition, with a New Preface by the Author
$29.95 Add to cartWhat does it mean to lead a moral life?
In their first extended study of moral philosophy, Judith Butler offers a provocative outline for a new ethical practice–one responsive to the need for critic- Author: Butler, Judith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1531509975
- Language: English
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Into the Weeds
$20.00 Add to cartAn illuminating reflection on the creative process from acclaimed fiction writer, essayist, and translator Lydia Davis
When asked why she writes, Lydia Davis confesses that the question makes her unc- Series: Why I Write
- Author: Davis, Lydia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 0300279744
- Language: English
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In the Future of Yesterday: A Life of Stefan Zweig
$34.95 Add to cartA refreshing approach to the life and work of Austrian writer Stefan Zweig.
In the Future of Yesterday delves into Stefan Zweig’s considerable contribution to world literature, rooted in the Austro-Je- Author: Görner, Rüdiger
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: April 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1914979109
- Language: English
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Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Literature
$18.00 Add to cartA love letter to the horror genre from many of the most influential and bestselling authors in the industry.
For twenty-five years, Becky Siegel Spratford has worked as a librarian in Reader Advisory- Author: Siegel Spratford, Becky
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 1668205092
- Language: English
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How to Go Mad Without Losing Your Mind: Madness and Black Radical Creativity
$44.93 Add to cart“Hold tight. The way to go mad without losing your mind is sometimes unruly.” So begins La Marr Jurelle Bruce’s urgent provocation and poignant meditation on madness in black radical art. Bruce theori… [more below]
- Series: Black Outdoors: Innovations in the Poetics of Study
- Author: Bruce, La Marr Jurelle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: June 18 2021
- ISBN10: 1478010878
- Language: English
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The Best of Brevity: Twenty Groundbreaking Years of Flash Nonfiction
$16.95 Add to cart- Author: Bossiere, Zoë
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 276
- Publish Date: November 17 2020
- ISBN10: 1941628230
- Language: English
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Music from Elsewhere: Haunting Tunes from the Afterlife, Alien Worlds and Occult Realms
$22.95 Add to cartA compendium of other musics, channelled from the spirit world, the fairy kingdom, outer space, secret societies and occult lodges.
This unique collection of esoteric earworms gathers, and reproduces,- Author: Skinner, Doug
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: December 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1913689212
- Language: English
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The Occult Sylvia Plath: The Hidden Spiritual Life of the Visionary Poet
$35.00 Read moreExplores Sylvia Plath’s enduring interest and active practice in mysticism and the occult from childhood until her tragic death in 1963
– Decodes the alchemical, Qabalistic, hermetic, spiritual, and T- Author: Gordon-Bramer, Julia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 1644118629
- Language: English
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Against Progress
$14.95 Add to cartTo define ‘progress’ is to lay claim to the future. Seminal thinker Slavoj Zizek turns essayist to interrogate the competing visions which form the horizons of human possibility and ask: Can things, w
- Series: Zizek’s Essays
- Author: Zizek, Slavoj
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: January 09 2025
- ISBN10: 135051585X
- Language: English
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Fate the Hunter: Early Arabic Hunting Poems
$15.00 Add to cartA rich anthology of pre-Islamic and early Islamic poetry on the beauties and perils of the hunt
In the poems of Fate the Hunter, many of them translated into English for the first time, trained cheeta- Series: Library of Arabic Literature #100
- Author: Montgomery, James E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1479834254
- Language: English
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Gods and Mortals: Ancient Greek Myths for Modern Readers
$24.95 Add to cartAn entrancing new telling of ancient Greek myths
“This book is a triumph! . . . [A] magnificent retelling of the Greek myths.”–Alexander McCall Smith, author of the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency ser- Author: Johnston, Sarah Iles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 0691239878
- Language: English
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Trauma Plot: A Life
$28.00 Add to cartFrom a rising literary star and the author of how to be a good girl comes a brilliant, biting, and beautifully wrought memoir of trauma and the cost of survival
A VOGUE AND VULTURE BEST BOOK OF THE YE- Author: Hood, Jamie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 059370097X
- Language: English
