Literary Criticism
-
Once Upon a Place: Forests, Caverns & Other Places of Transformation in Myths, Fairy Tales & Film
$19.99 Add to cartOnce Upon a Place explores narratives from modern film, famous fairy tales, and ancient mythology to define the five core locations that shape every story: the Cavern, the Deep, the Vessel, the Forest
- Author: Bellebuono, Holly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 08 2025
- ISBN10: 0738779377
- Language: English
-
February House
$21.99 Add to cartFebruary House is the uncovered story of an extraordinary experiment in communal living, one involving young but already iconic writers — and the country’s best-known burlesque performer — in a hous
- Author: Tippins, Sherill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 12 2006
- ISBN10: 061871197X
- Language: English
-
Nothingism: Poetry at the End of Print Culture
$19.95 Read moreWhat is the internet doing to poetry? Good question! In Nothingism, Jason Schneiderman grapples with the way that digital culture has begun to reshape America’s poetry landscape, examining this profou… [more below]
- Series: Poets on Poetry
- Author: Schneiderman, Jason
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 154
- Publish Date: March 05 2025
- ISBN10: 0472039849
- Language: English
-
Didion and Babitz
$20.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER * Named a Best Book of the Year by Time, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Air Mail, Harper’s Bazaar, The Washington Post, and more!
Joan Didion is revealed at last in this “vivid, engrossing”- Author: Anolik, Lili
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 22 2025
- ISBN10: 1668065495
- Language: English
-
Culture Creep: Notes on the Pop Apocalypse
$27.99 Add to cart“This book re-framed my entire adolescence. I highly recommend you read it.” — LING MA
From the critically acclaimed author of Dead Girls (“stylish and inspired”–New York Times Book Review), a sharp,
- Author: Bolin, Alice
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 63440520
- Language: English
-
Short Stories in Russian: New Penguin Parallel Text
$21.00 Add to cartA dual-language edition of Russian stories–many appearing in English for the first time
This new volume of ten short stories, with parallel translations, offers students at all levels the opportunit- Series: Penguin Parallel Text
- Author: Baer, Brian James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 01 2017
- ISBN10: 014311834X
- Language: English
-
The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination
$22.00 Add to cart“A feminist classic.”–Judith Shulevitz, New York Times Book Review
“A pivotal book, one of those after which we will never think the same again.”–Carolyn G. Heilbrun, Washington Post Book World A p- Series: Veritas Paperbacks
- Author: Gilbert, Sandra M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 744
- Publish Date: March 17 2020
- ISBN10: 0300246722
- Language: English
-
The Black Box: Writing the Race
$20.00 Add to cartA New York Times Notable Book
“Henry Louis Gates is a national treasure. Here, he returns with an intellectual and at times deeply personal meditation on the hard-fought evolution and the very meaning- Author: Gates, Henry Louis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 0593299809
- Language: English
-
Jane Austen’s Garden: A Botanical Tour of the Classic Novels
$24.99 Add to cartAn elegantly illustrated celebration of Jane Austen’s life and literature as told through the flowers, plants, and landscapes that inspired her.
Through explorations of the botanical inspirations and- Author: Williams, Molly
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1524886378
- Language: English
-
All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess
$18.99 Add to cartA glorious call to throw off restraint and balance in favor of excess, abandon, and disproportion, in essays ranging from such topics as mindfulness, decluttering, David Cronenberg, and consent.
In her- Author: Rothfeld, Becca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1250849942
- Language: English
-
Shakespeare: The Bard’s Guide to Abuses and Affronts
$7.95 Read moreBaffle your friends with your erudite knowledge of Shakespearean English, all while casually insulting them. This deluxe collection of Shakespeare’s most dazzling insults is neatly separated into sect… [more below]
- Series: Rp Minis
- Author: Running Press
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 04 2014
- ISBN10: 0762453869
- Language: English
-
Empty Spaces
$26.00 Add to cartA hypnotic and mystifying exploration of land and legacy, investigating what it means to be an intergenerational, Indigenous survivor of Residential Schools
“A singular, incantatory work. . . . The bo- Author: Abel, Jordan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0300275544
- Language: English
-
Dust and Light: On the Art of Fact in Fiction
$26.99 Add to cartIn this thoughtful collection of essays, Andrea Barrett draws from her experiences writing some of the most acclaimed historical fiction of our time to explore the mysteries and delights of the genre.
- Author: Barrett, Andrea
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1324036508
- Language: English
-
Reading Genesis
$20.00 Add to cartINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
One of our greatest novelists and thinkers presents a radiant, thrilling interpretation of the book of Genesis.
For generations, the book of Genesis has been treated by- Author: Robinson, Marilynne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1250371856
- Language: English
-
To Save and to Destroy: Writing as an Other
$26.95 Add to cartFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer (now an HBO series) comes a moving and unflinchingly personal meditation on the literary forms of otherness and a bold call for expansive poli
- Series: Charles Eliot Norton Lectures
- Author: Nguyen, Viet Thanh
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 08 2025
- ISBN10: 0674298179
- Language: English
-
Atrocity: A Literary History
$32.00 Add to cartExploring literary representations of mass violence, Bruce Robbins traces the emergence of a cosmopolitan recognition of atrocity.
Mass violence did not always have a name. Like conquest, what we thi
- Author: Robbins, Bruce
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 294
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1503640558
- Language: English
-
The Tempest: The New Oxford Shakespeare
$8.99 Add to cart‘How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world
Performed variously as escapist fantasy, celebratory fiction, and political allegory, The Tempest is one of the plays in which S
That has such people in’t!’- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: July 11 2024
- ISBN10: 0192865870
- Language: English
-
The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories – 20th Anniversary Edition
$29.99 Read more**20th ANNIVERSARY EDITION**
This remarkable and monumental book at last provides a comprehensive answer to the age-old riddle of whether there are only a small number of ‘basic stories’ in the world.- Author: Booker, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1399415921
- Language: English
-
Laozi’s DAO de Jing: A New Interpretation for a Transformative Time
$17.99 Add to cartA fresh, graceful translation of one of the most important and timeless classics–the foundational work of Daoism–by award-winning novelist Ken Liu, who contextualizes and demystifies this famously e… [more below]
- Author: Laozi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 166801937X
- Language: English
-
Notes of a Native Son
$25.00 Add to cartA deluxe hardcover edition of one of James Baldwin’s most admired works, exploring what it means to be Black in America and his own search for identity
Part of the Beacon Classics series Originally p- Series: Beacon Classics
- Author: Baldwin, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 080701897X
- Language: English
