Literary Criticism
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More Than Love: The Enduring Fascination with Edgar Allan Poe
$28.00 Read more- Author: Armiento, Amy Branam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 314
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 0881469467
- Language: English
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Pantheon: An Illustrated Handbook to the Greek Gods & Goddesses
$26.99 Add to cartA beautifully illustrated handbook, profiling more than 50 characters from Greek Mythology
“I love Caroline Lawrence and so should you.” – Natalie Haynes “Huge fun!” – Tom Holland Get to know the a- Author: Lawrence, Caroline
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 1781579490
- Language: English
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My Life with Bob: Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues
$19.99 Add to cartPeople Pick – O Magazine Title to Pick Up Now – Vanity Fair Hot Type – Glamour New Book You’re Guaranteed to Love This Summer – LitHub.com Best Book about Books – Buzzfeed Book You Need to Read This S
- Author: Paul, Pamela
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1250182549
- Language: English
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Walking in the Dark: James Baldwin, My Father, and Me
$24.95 Add to cartA moving exploration of the life and work of the celebrated American writer, blending biography and memoir with literary criticism.
Since James Baldwin’s death in 1987, his writing – including The Fi- Author: Field, Douglas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1526175177
- Language: English
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The Abandoners: On Mothers and Monsters
$18.99 Add to cartWhat kind of mother abandons her child? During the pandemic, trapped at home with young children and struggling to find creative space to write, journalist Bego?a G?mez Urzaiz became fixated on artist
- Author: Gómez Urzaiz, Begoña
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1324079479
- Language: English
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Scum Manifesto
$14.95 Add to cartClassic radical feminist statement from the woman who shot Andy Warhol
“Life in this society being, at best, an utter bore and no aspect of society being at all relevant to women, there remains to ci- Author: Solanas, Valerie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: April 05 2016
- ISBN10: 1784784400
- Language: English
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44 Poems on Being with Each Other: A Poetry Unbound Collection
$27.99 Add to cart44 Poems on Being with Each Other is a new volume that offers immersive reflections on the human connection. With an observant eye, P?draig ? Tuama shares an enlightening meditation on each poem, rev
- Author: Tuama, Pádraig Ó.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1324086165
- Language: English
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Context Collapse: A Poem Containing a History of Poetry
$15.95 Add to cartLiterary critic Ryan Ruby uncovers the secret history of poetry in a mock-academic verse essay filled with wit and wisdom.
One of Publishers Weekly‘s Best Books of 2024 Prophet. Entertainer. Courtier.- Author: Ruby, Ryan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1644214237
- Language: English
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Dante’s Divine Comedy: A Biography
$24.95 Add to cartThe life and times of Dante’s soaring poetic allegory of the soul’s redemptive journey toward God
Written during his exile from Florence in the early 1300s, Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy describes t- Author: Luzzi, Joseph
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 0691156778
- Language: English
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Constant Reader: The New Yorker Columns 1927-28
$19.00 Add to cartDorothy Parker’s complete weekly New Yorker column about books and people and the rigors of reviewing.
When, in 1927, Dorothy Parker became a book critic for the New Yorker, she was already a legendar
- Author: Parker, Dorothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1961341255
- Language: English
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Ghassan Kanafani: Selected Political Writings
$26.95 Add to cart“No other author has been as profoundly formative for me as Kanafani” Mohammed El-Kurd, poet, writer and journalist, author of Rifqa
“I cannot think of a better collection to guide anyone seeking a mor
- Author: Kanafani, Ghassan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 20 2024
- ISBN10: 0745349374
- Language: English
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The Book of Yokai, Expanded Second Edition: Mysterious Creatures of Japanese Folklore
$32.95 Add to cartSignificantly expanded and updated–a lively excursion into Japanese folklore and its increasing influence within global popular culture.
Monsters, spirits, fantastic beings, and supernatural creatur- Author: Foster, Michael Dylan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 0520403886
- Language: English
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The Book of Yokai, Expanded Second Edition: Mysterious Creatures of Japanese Folklore
$45.00 Read moreSignificantly expanded and updated–a lively excursion into Japanese folklore and its increasing influence within global popular culture.
Monsters, spirits, fantastic beings, and supernatural creatur- Author: Foster, Michael Dylan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 0520389557
- Language: English
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The No-Pressure Book Journal: A No-Guilt, No-Shame, No-Stress Journal to Help You Read Better and Enjoy Books Again
$19.99 Add to cartHosts of the hit podcast Reading Glasses bring you the only reading journal you’ll ever need, designed to help book lovers read, rant, and reflect with undeniable ease. No stress. No pressure.
Brea a- Author: Grant, Brea
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 9798886741940
- Language: English
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Sidetracks
$18.95 Read moreA TIME MUST-READ BOOK OF 2024
A 2024 NPR BOOK WE LOVE
A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2024
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 GRIFFIN POETRY PRIZE
Sidetracks, Bei Dao’s first new collection in almost fifteen year
- Author: Dao, Bei
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 081123844X
- Language: English
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Hell: In Search of a Christian Ecology
$26.95 Add to cartHell on earth is real. The toxic fusion of big oil, Evangelical Christianity, and white supremacy has ignited a worldwide inferno, more phantasmagoric than anything William Blake could dream up and mo
- Author: Morton, Timothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: May 28 2024
- ISBN10: 0231214715
- Language: English
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On the Couch: Writers Analyze Sigmund Freud
$29.95 Add to cartA collection of colorful and candid essays and other pieces about Freud and his legacy today, featuring twenty-five leading writers
With original contributions by Andr? Aciman – Sarah Boxer – Jennifer- Author: Blauner, Andrew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 0691242437
- Language: English
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Jane Austen and the Price of Happiness
$27.95 Add to cartDo Jane Austen novels truly celebrate–or undermine–romance and happy endings?
How did Jane Austen become a cultural icon for fairy-tale endings when her own books end in ways that are rushed, ironic,
- Author: Brodey, Inger Sigrun Bredkjær
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 1421448203
- Language: English
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Female Masculinity
$29.95 Add to cartIn this quintessential work of queer theory, Jack Halberstam takes aim at the protected status of male masculinity and shows that female masculinity has offered a distinct alternative to it for well o… [more below]
- Author: Halberstam, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: January 09 2019
- ISBN10: 1478001623
- Language: English
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Mural
$19.95 Add to cart“The most celebrated writer of verse in the Arab world.”
Poetry from former national poet of Palestine, illustrated by original drawings by John Berger
-Adam Shatz, The New York Times
Mahmoud Darwish w- Author: Darwish, Mahmoud
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1804297119
- Language: English
