Literary Criticism
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The Magpie at Night: The Complete Poems of Li Qingzhao (1084-1151)
$18.00 Add to cartA luminous new translation of the greatest woman poet in Chinese history, highlighting Li Qingzhao’s iconoclastic verse and showcasing her visionary portrait of the inner workings of the artist’s mind
- Author: Qingzhao, Li
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 25 2025
- ISBN10: 0374612757
- Language: English
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Collected Verse
$12.99 Add to cart‘The wind is rising!… Let us try to live!’
One of the preeminent intellectuals of modern French culture, Val?ry is widely considered one of the country’s greatest poets of the twentieth century. Fol- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Val?ry, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 10 2024
- ISBN10: 198820321
- Language: English
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The Last Romantic: C. S. Lewis, English Literature, and Modern Theology
$22.99 Add to cartIn this theological and literary investigation, Jeffrey Barbeau explores the influence of nineteenth century Romanticism on C. S. Lewis’s writing in three essays. Drawing on extensive reading of the m
- Series: Hansen Lectureship
- Author: Barbeau, Jeffrey W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1514010518
- Language: English
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Silent Catastrophes: Essays
$30.00 Add to cartFrom the renowned author of Austerlitz (named a Top 10 Book of the 21st Century by the New York Times) comes the first English translation of his extraordinary essays on the Austrian writers who shape… [more below]
- Author: Sebald, W. G.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1400067723
- Language: English
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Radical Poetics: Essays on Literature & Culture
$29.95 Read moreLiterature has the power to help build a shelter in language for a way of being that holds integrity and love as its root. In the tradition of Audre Lorde, Angela Davis, and many other Black writers a… [more below]
- Series: Poets on Poetry
- Author: Queen, Khadijah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: January 21 2025
- ISBN10: 0472039792
- Language: English
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Living with Jane Austen
$25.95 Add to cart- Author: Todd, Janet
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 246
- Publish Date: March 20 2025
- ISBN10: 1009569317
- Language: English
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Pathemata, Or, the Story of My Mouth
$25.00 Add to cartPathemata, Or, The Story of My Mouth is an experiment in interiority written in the pandemic studio. Something of a companion piece to 2009’s Bluets, Pathemata merges a pain diary chronicling a decad… [more below]
- Author: Nelson, Maggie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 9.79889E+12
- Language: English
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The Cambridge Centennial Edition of the Great Gatsby
$24.95 Add to cartThe Great Gatsby is often called the great American novel. Emblematic of an entire era, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic tale of illicit desire, grand illusions, and lost dreams is rendered in a lyrical … [more below]
- Author: Fitzgerald, F. Scott
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 278
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1009414593
- Language: English
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Words of Witness: The Fiction of Elie Wiesel
$29.95 Read moreDelve into the profound spiritual journey of Elie Wiesel through this comprehensive study of his fiction. From the depths of despair to the celebration of life, Wiesel’s fifteen novels offer a poignan… [more below]
- Author: Rosmarin, L?onard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: October 24 2024
- ISBN10: 177161756X
- Language: English
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Reading Magic: Why Reading Aloud to Our Children Will Change Their Lives Forever
$28.00 Add to cartIn this revised and updated edition of Reading Magic, bestselling author and literacy expert Mem Fox reveals the incredible emotional and intellectual impact reading aloud to children has on their abi… [more below]
- Series: Harvest Original
- Author: Fox, Mem
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 04 2001
- ISBN10: 0151006245
- Language: English
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Splinters: Another Kind of Love Story
$18.99 Add to cartFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes “a blazing, unputdownable memoir” (Mary Karr, author of Lit), the “piercing, intimate” story (TIME Magazine) of… [more below]
- Author: Jamison, Leslie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0316374989
- Language: English
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James Baldwin: The Life Album
$28.00 Add to cartAn intimate portrait of James Baldwin, offering a new understanding of his life and works as seen through his close relationships and private life
James Baldwin (1924-1987) was a pivotal figure of th- Series: Black Lives
- Author: Zaborowska, Magdalena J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 0300262205
- Language: English
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Leaves of Grass
$11.99 Add to cart‘I spring from the pages into your arms’
Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass stands as one of the most influential and innovative literary works of the last two hundred years. Widely credited as the origin- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Whitman, Walt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: December 12 2024
- ISBN10: 0192894447
- Language: English
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J.R.R. Tolkien: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartVery Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
J.R.R. Tolkien was the author of two of the most extraordinary, most original, and most popular books of the twentieth century: The Hobbit, and T- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Townend, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: December 26 2024
- ISBN10: 019288204X
- Language: English
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Super Gay Poems: Lgbtqia+ Poetry After Stonewall
$29.95 Add to cartA major poet and literary critic leads an aesthetic adventure through poems about queer experience, by writers who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer, trans, nonbinary, gender fluid, and more.
- Author: Burt, Stephanie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 0674273117
- Language: English
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Northanger Abbey
$7.99 Add to cart‘No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be an heroine.’
Northanger Abbey is a comedy about reading and misreading-of books and the world-and about d- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Austen, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: December 12 2024
- ISBN10: 019884106X
- Language: English
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Authority: Essays
$30.00 Add to cartA bold, provocative collection of essays on one of the most urgent questions of our time: What is authority when everyone has an opinion on everything?
Since her canonical 2017 essay “On Liking Women,- Author: Chu, Andrea Long
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 08 2025
- ISBN10: 0374600333
- Language: English
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Hell Is Dark with No Flowers, Vol. 2 (Light Novel)
$15.00 Add to cartA letter hinting at an impending murder and dismemberment is delivered to Shiroshi’s door, and he and Seiji set out to investigate. They find themselves venturing to a remote island dominated by a tow… [more below]
- Series: Hell Is Dark with No Flowers (Light Novel) #2
- Author: Michio, Yoru
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1975379403
- Language: English
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Sylvia Plath: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartSylvia Plath is one of the most influential and iconic American writers of the twentieth century, popular with academic and general audiences alike. Plath, who died at age 30, left behind a body of wo… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Clark, Heather
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 21 2024
- ISBN10: 0198841477
- Language: English
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Romeo and Juliet: The New Oxford Shakespeare
$8.99 Add to cart‘A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life’
This edition provides a clear and accessible introduction to Shakespeare’s enduring tale of ill-fated lovers. Hannah August pays particular attention to- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: July 11 2024
- ISBN10: 0192866362
- Language: English
