Literary Criticism
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Hell Is Dark with No Flowers, Vol. 3 (Light Novel): Volume 3
$16.00 Add to cartDetective Shiroshi and his pet assistant Seiji venture to Okuhida to investigate a baffling old case involving people being attacked in the streets. At their ryokan in the mountains, which burn with a… [more below]
- Series: Hell Is Dark with No Flowers (Light Novel) #3
- Author: Michio, Yoru
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 197537942X
- Language: English
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Baldwin, Styron, and Me
$17.95 Add to cartAn unlikely literary friendship from the past sheds light on the radicalization of public debate around identity, race, and censorship.
In 1961, James Baldwin spent several months in William Styron’s g
- Series: Biblioasis International Translation #52
- Author: Abdelmoumen, M?likah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1771966262
- Language: English
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Crossings: Creative Ecologies of Cruising
$22.95 Add to cartIt’s difficult to pinpoint the origins of cruising. While the term was used by men seeking casual encounters with other men in the parks and streets of New York City as early as the 1920s, historical … [more below]
- Series: Q+ Public
- Author: Flor?ncio, Jo?o
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 166
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1978837542
- Language: English
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Mythocracy: How Stories Shape Our Worlds
$29.95 Read moreHarnessing the power of storytelling for political progress
Mythocracy examines the narrative mechanisms that script our lives through the stories we tell one another. Digging beneath common anxieties- Author: Citton, Yves
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1839766980
- Language: English
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Dickens the Enchanter: Inside the Explosive Imagination of the Great Storyteller
$30.00 Add to cartA kaleidoscopic investigation of Dickens’s imagination and the world he created.
See Dickens as never before in this creative biography, which delves into his novels, journalistic essays and letters t- Author: Conrad, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1399409190
- Language: English
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On Writers and Writing: Selected Essays
$24.95 Add to cartA new selection of Henry James’s essays on the art of writing, from his famous essay “The Art of Fiction” to pieces on George Eliot, Ivan Turgenev, Honor? de Balzac, and others. Witty, erudite, and pa… [more below]
- Author: James, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1681379236
- Language: English
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King Noir: The Crime Fiction of Stephen King
$25.00 Add to cartOver the past thirty years, Stephen King has received enormous attention from both the popular press as well as academics seeking to explain the unique phenomenon of his success. Books on King explore… [more below]
- Author: Magistrale, Tony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 245
- Publish Date: March 31 2025
- ISBN10: 1496852753
- Language: English
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Shakespeare’s Greatest Love
$14.99 Add to cartRelying on historical and literary evidence hidden in plain sight, Shakespeare’s Greatest Love tells the true, uncensored love story of William Shakespeare and Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampt
- Series: Disruption Curios
- Author: Medina, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: April 22 2025
- ISBN10: 1633311066
- Language: English
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The Great Gatsby
$8.99 Add to cart- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Fitzgerald, F. Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 12 2025
- ISBN10: 019886440X
- Language: English
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The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise
$18.99 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1324110384
- Language: English
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Henry James Comes Home: Rediscovering America in the Gilded Age
$18.95 Add to cartIn this enthralling re-creation of American novelist Henry James’ famous ten-month trip around the United States, lauded critic Peter Brooks brings to life both the literary giant and America in its G… [more below]
- Author: Brooks, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 168137921X
- Language: English
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Metamaus: A Look Inside a Modern Classic, Maus [With CDROM]
$35.00 Add to cart***NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD WINNER***
Visually and emotionally rich, MetaMaus is as groundbreaking as the masterpiece whose creation it reveals.
In the pages of MetaMaus, Art Spiegelman re-enters th- Series: Pantheon Graphic Library
- Author: Spiegelman, Art
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: October 04 2011
- ISBN10: 037542394X
- Language: English
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Jane Austen, the Secret Radical
$21.00 Add to cart
A brilliant, illuminating reassessment of the life and work of Jane Austen that makes clear how Austen has been misread for the past two centuries and that shows us how she intended her books to be re… [more below]- Author: Kelly, Helena
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 03 2018
- ISBN10: 0525432949
- Language: English
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Seamus Heaney’s Gifts
$39.95 Add to cart“The fact of the matter,” Seamus Heaney said in a 1997 interview with the Paris Review, “is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry.” Throughout his c
- Author: Hart, Henry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: December 13 2024
- ISBN10: 0807182567
- Language: English
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On Book Banning: Or, How the New Censorship Consensus Trivializes Art and Undermines Democracy
$15.95 Add to cartThe freedom to read is under attack.
From the destruction of libraries in ancient Rome to today’s state-sponsored efforts to suppress LGBTQ+ literature, book bans arise from the impulse toward social c
- Series: Field Notes #9
- Author: Wells, Ira
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1771966637
- Language: English
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Ellmann’s Joyce: The Biography of a Masterpiece and Its Maker
$35.00 Add to cartThe story of the most acclaimed literary biography of the twentieth century–an ingeniously plotted, behind-the-scenes account of how the literary critic and scholar Richard Ellmann shaped James Joyce
- Author: Leader, Zachary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 0674248392
- Language: English
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Saxophone
$14.95 Read moreObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
The saxophone is a contradictory instrument that has rooted itself in the soil of pop culture- Series: Object Lessons
- Author: Hawkins, Mollie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 20 2025
- ISBN10: 9798765114773
- Language: English
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God’s Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible
$18.99 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
“This scrupulously elegant account of the creation of what four centuries of history has confirmed is the finest English-language work of all time, i
- Author: Nicolson, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: December 13 2013
- ISBN10: 0060838736
- Language: English
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A Room of One’s Own: Gilded Pocket Edition
$12.99 Read moreThis handsome gift edition presents Virginia Woolf’s classic work, A Room of One’s Own, featuring a luxurious gold embossed cover design, gilded page edges and patterned endpapers.
One of the greates- Series: Arcturus Ornate Classics
- Author: Woolf, Virginia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1398842265
- Language: English
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Careless People: Murder, Mayhem, and the Invention of The Great Gatsby
$27.00 Add to cartKirkus (STARRED review)
“Churchwell… has written an excellent book… she’s earned the right to play on [Fitzgerald’s] court. Prodigious research and fierce affection illumine every remarkable page.”… [more below]- Author: Churchwell, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: January 27 2015
- ISBN10: 0143126253
- Language: English
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