Literary Criticism
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This Part Is Silent: A Life Between Cultures
$17.99 Add to cartBorn in Korea, raised in the American South, and trying her best to survive British academia, SJ Kim probes her experiences as a writer, a scholar, and a daughter to confront the silences she finds in
- Author: Kim, Sj
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1324064765
- Language: English
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The Shield of Achilles
$22.95 Add to cartBack in print for the first time in decades, Auden’s National Book Award-winning poetry collection, in a critical edition that introduces it to a new generation of readers
The Shield of Achilles, whic- Series: W.H. Auden: Critical Editions #1
- Author: Auden, W. H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 069121865X
- Language: English
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The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Graphic Literature: Artists and Writers on Creating Graphic Narratives, Poetry Comics, and Literary Collage
$24.95 Read moreThe fourth volume in the immensely popular Field Guide series, The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Graphic Literature gives readers unprecedented insight into the techniques of 28 of today’s most inno
- Author: Ervick, Kelcey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: July 18 2023
- ISBN10: 194162829X
- Language: English
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Loving Sylvia Plath: A Reclamation
$27.99 Add to cartSylvia Plath is an object of enduring cultural fascination–the troubled patron saint of confessional poetry, a writer whose genius is buried under the weight of her status as the quintessential liter
- Author: Van Duyne, Emily
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1324006978
- Language: English
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Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies: How Doubting the Bard Became the Biggest Taboo in Literature
$21.00 Add to cartAn “extraordinarily brilliant” and “pleasurably naughty” (Andr? Aciman) investigation into the Shakespeare authorship question, exploring how doubting that William Shakespeare wrote his plays became a… [more below]
- Author: Winkler, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1982171278
- Language: English
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The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction: Tips from Editors, Teachers, and Writers in the Field
$15.95 Add to cartWith its unprecedented gathering of 25 brief essays by experts in the field, The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction meets the growing need for a concise yet creative exploration of
- Author: Masih, Tara L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 12 2009
- ISBN10: 0978984862
- Language: English
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Looking for Andy Griffith: A Father’s Journey
$28.00 Add to cartAndy Griffith (1926-2012) is one of North Carolina’s most beloved exports, capturing America’s heart as Sheriff Andy Taylor. Evan Dalton Smith was born in the North Carolina Piedmont over four decades… [more below]
- Author: Smith, Evan Dalton
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 28 2024
- ISBN10: 1469678985
- Language: English
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Writers Who Changed History
$40.00 Add to cartThis visual celebration of the world’s most celebrated thinkers tells the fascinating stories of their lives and pioneering ideas.
Writers Who Changed History places well-known writers in their histor- Series: DK History Changers
- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 0744096952
- Language: English
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Any Person Is the Only Self: Essays
$18.00 Add to cartContagiously curious essays on reading, art, and the life of the mind, from the acclaimed author of The Unreality of Memory.
Who are we when we read? When we journal? Are we more ourselves alone or w- Author: Gabbert, Elisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 0374605890
- Language: English
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Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science
$32.00 Add to cartA captivating portrait of the poet and the scientist who shared an enchanted view of nature
Emily Dickinson and Charles Darwin were born at a time when the science of studying the natural world was kn- Author: Bergland, Renée
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: April 30 2024
- ISBN10: 0691235287
- Language: English
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The Genius of Judy: How Judy Blume Rewrote Childhood for All of Us
$28.99 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER
An intimate and expansive look at Judy Blume’s life, work, and cultural impact, focusing on her most iconic–and controversial–young adult novels, from Are You There God? It’s Me,- Author: Bergstein, Rachelle
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1668010909
- Language: English
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Second Chances: Shakespeare and Freud
$28.00 Add to cartA powerful exploration of the human capacity for renewal, as seen through Shakespeare and Freud
“A compellingly readable and intelligent book. . . . Both authors write with impressive energy.”–Rowan- Author: Greenblatt, Stephen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 0300276362
- Language: English
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A Summer with Pascal
$22.95 Add to cartFrom an eminent scholar, a spirited introduction to one of the great polymaths in the history of Europe.
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) is best known in the English-speaking world for his contributions to- Author: Compagnon, Antoine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 0674295412
- Language: English
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The Illustrated Mark Twain and the Buffalo Express: 10 Stories and over a Century of Sketches
$26.95 Add to cartRanging from his first impression of Niagara Falls to the deteriorating condition of a cemetery in his Buffalo neighborhood, to more satirical statements on the state of American journalism, Twain’s B
- Author: Reigstad, Thomas J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 138
- Publish Date: February 20 2024
- ISBN10: 1493076035
- Language: English
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The Language of the Night: Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy
$18.99 Add to cartFeaturing a new introduction by Ken Liu, this revised edition of Ursula K. Le Guin’s first full-length collection of essays covers her background as a writer and educator, on fantasy and science ficti… [more below]
- Author: Le Guin, Ursula K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 1668034905
- Language: English
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The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
$27.99 Add to cartIn 2020, Olivia Laing began to restore an eighteenth-century walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual plants. The work brought to light a crucial question for our age: Who gets to live i
- Author: Laing, Olivia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 25 2024
- ISBN10: 0393882004
- Language: English
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The Book-Makers: A History of the Book in Eighteen Lives
$32.00 Add to cartA scholar and bookmaker “breathes both books-as-objects and their creators back into life” (Financial Times) in this five-hundred-year history of printed books, told through the people who created the… [more below]
- Author: Smyth, Adam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 28 2024
- ISBN10: 1541605640
- Language: English
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Music from Elsewhere: Haunting Tunes from the Afterlife, Alien Worlds and Occult Realms
$19.99 Add to cartWhen school girl Janey Macklin disappeared from the seedy side of London in 1988, her case went cold, with no body and no witnesses. Now, thirty years later, private detective Kate Marshall has been a
- Series: Private Detective Kate Marshall #5
- Author: Bryndza, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 372
- Publish Date: July 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1914547268
- Language: English
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The Best of Brevity: Twenty Groundbreaking Years of Flash Nonfiction
$6.99 Read moreThe ULTIMATE, complete collection of the original Mowgli stories!
This collection of stories features Mowgli, a young boy who lives amongst the wildlife of the jungle. From being tracked and hunted by- Author: Kipling, Rudyard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 10 2016
- ISBN10: 1944686320
- Language: English
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Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma
$17.00 Add to cartA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK – NATIONAL BESTSELLER – A timely, passionate, provocative, blisteringly smart interrogation of how we make and experience art in the age of cancel culture, and of the lin… [more below]
- Author: Dederer, Claire
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 0525564187
- Language: English
