Literary Criticism
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Cosmic Connections: Poetry in the Age of Disenchantment
$37.95 Add to cartA Times Literary Supplement Best Book of the Year
A major new work by Charles Taylor: the long-awaited follow-up to The Language Animal, exploring the Romantic poetics central to his theory of languag- Author: Taylor, Charles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: May 21 2024
- ISBN10: 0674296087
- Language: English
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The Uptown Local: Joy, Death, and Joan Didion: A Memoir
$28.00 Add to cartA brilliant debut memoir about a young writer–struggling with depression, family issues, and addiction–and his life-changing decade working for Joan Didion
As an aspiring novelist in his early twenti
- Author: Leadbeater, Cory
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 006337157X
- Language: English
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Reversing Entropy: Poems
$22.00 Add to cartFrom the pen of beloved poet Luci Shaw comes a new collection that celebrates inspired creativity as an antidote to chaos.
The poet’s own words best describe the heart of this pinnacle collection of n- Author: Shaw, Luci
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1640608702
- Language: English
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How to Think Like a Woman: Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind
$18.00 Add to cartFrom a bold new voice in nonfiction, an exhilarating account of the lives and works of influential 17th and 18th century feminist philosophers Mary Wollstonecraft and her predecessors who have been wr
- Author: Penaluna, Regan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 080216272X
- Language: English
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Too Good to Be Altogether Lost: Rediscovering Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House Books
$36.95 Add to cartLaura Ingalls Wilder, author of the well-known Little House series, wrote stories from her childhood because they were “too good to be altogether lost.” And those stories seemed far from being lost du… [more below]
- Author: Hill, Pamela Smith
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1496227883
- Language: English
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Boccaccio: A Biography
$37.50 Add to cartA comprehensive biography of the celebrated author of the Decameron, a medieval masterpiece written in early Italian.
Boccaccio (1313-75) stands with Dante and Petrarch as one of the “Three Crowns” o- Author: Santagata, Marco
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: May 07 2025
- ISBN10: 0226820947
- Language: English
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What Light Can Do PB
$16.99 Add to cartUniversally lauded poet Robert Hass offers a stunning, wide-ranging collection of essays on art, imagination, and the natural world–with accompanying photos throughout.
What Light Can Do is a magnific
- Author: Hass, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: July 30 2013
- ISBN10: 0061923915
- Language: English
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Bad Indians Book Club: Reading at the Edge of a Thousand Worlds
$27.99 Add to cartIn this powerful reframing of the stories that make us, Anishinaabe writer Patty Krawec leads us into the borderlands of history, science, memoir, and fiction to ask: What worlds do books written by m
- Author: Krawec, Patty
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 231
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1506499120
- Language: English
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Wild for Austen: A Rebellious, Subversive, and Untamed Jane
$30.00 Add to cartIncisive, funny, and deeply-researched insights into the life, writing, and legacy of Jane Austen, by the preeminent scholar Devoney Looser.
Thieves! Spies! Abolitionists! Ghosts! If we ever truly bel- Author: Looser, Devoney
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1250361338
- Language: English
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Mrs Dalloway: Biography of a Novel
$27.95 Add to cartThe first book in the ‘Biography of a novel’ series offers a compelling account of Virginia Woolf’s masterpiece.
The fourth and best-known of Virginia Woolf’s novels, Mrs Dalloway is a modernist maste- Series: Biography of a Novel
- Author: Hussey, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: July 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1526176815
- Language: English
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One Day We’ll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter: Essays
$19.99 Add to cartOne of NPR’s Best Books of the Year
A DEBUT COLLECTION OF FIERCE, FUNNY ESSAYS ABOUT GROWING UP THE DAUGHTER OF INDIAN IMMIGRANTS IN WESTERN CULTURE, ADDRESSING SEXISM, STEREOTYPES, AND THE UNIVERSAL- Author: Koul, Scaachi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 02 2017
- ISBN10: 1250121027
- Language: English
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A Little History of Poetry
$15.00 Add to cartA vital guide to poetry from ancient times to the present
Poetry is language made special, so that it will be remembered and valued. It does not always work – over the centuries countless thousands o- Series: Little Histories
- Author: Carey, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 0300283423
- Language: English
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O Canada: An American’s Notes on Canadian Culture
$21.00 Add to cartThe esteemed American literary critic Edmund Wilson in depth study of Canadian literature, O Canada.
O Canada is made up of studies of Canadian writers and books, mostly contemporary. It represents pe- Author: Wilson, Edmund
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 245
- Publish Date: January 01 1963
- ISBN10: 0374505160
- Language: English
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Manga: A New History of Japanese Comics
$37.50 Add to cartA groundbreaking story of Japanese comics from their nineteenth-century origins to the present day
The immensely popular art form of manga, or Japanese comics, has made its mark across global pop cul- Author: Exner, Eike
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0300280947
- Language: English
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For the Love of Money
$18.99 Add to cartIn this New York Times bestseller, streetwise and boy-crazy teenager Tracy Ellison of Flyy Girl fame makes her grand return–now on the brink of superstardom as a screenwriter and actress–in a captiv… [more below]
- Series: The Flyy Girl Trilogy #2
- Author: Tyree, Omar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 07 2001
- ISBN10: 0684872927
- Language: English
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Julius Caesar: The New Oxford Shakespeare
$9.99 Add to cart‘Cry “havoc!” and let slip the dogs of war’
Set against the backdrop of a nation breaking out into civil war, Julius Caesar raises questions of governance, power, tyranny, and enslavement. This New Ox- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 0192872664
- Language: English
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Plums or Nuts: Ojibwe Stories of Anishinaabe Humor
$18.95 Add to cartA master Ojibwe storyteller shares twenty-five stories–often bawdy, full of mischief and misbehavior–in Ojibwe and English.
Larry Amik Smallwood had the gift of making people laugh. Of all the teach- Author: Smallwood, Larry Amik
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1681342669
- Language: English
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Reacher: The Stories Behind the Stories
$26.95 Add to cartAfter making his debut in 1997’s The Killing Floor, Jack Reacher has quickly become one of the most popular–and most enduring–fictional heroes to emerge in the past half century. Now, his creator te… [more below]
- Author: Child, Lee
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 1613167067
- Language: English
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A Little History of Literature
$15.00 Add to cartA vibrant guide to the world of literature, from dramatic plays to engrossing novels
Literature has inspired every civilisation, from Greek myth to today’s graphic novels. John Sutherland, who has re- Series: Little Histories
- Author: Sutherland, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 0300283415
- Language: English
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13 Novels Conservatives Will Love (But Probably Haven’t Read)
$32.99 Add to cartA discussion of 13 works of literary fiction in the context of their relevance to conservative beliefs.
Great novels are a remarkable confluence of complex characters, powerful storytelling, and beau- Author: Scalia, Christopher J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 20 2025
- ISBN10: 1510782397
- Language: English
