Literary Criticism
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A Century of Poetry in the New Yorker: 1925-2025
$50.00 Add to cartEdited by the magazine’s poetry editor, Kevin Young, a celebratory selection from one hundred years of influential, entertaining, and taste-making verse in The New Yorker
Seamus Heaney, Dorothy Parker- Author: New Yorker Magazine Inc
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1024
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0593801938
- Language: English
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Taylor Swift by the Book: The Literature Behind the Lyrics, from Fairy Tales to Tortured Poets
$19.99 Add to cartFrom Robert Frost’s road not taken on her debut album to Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s albatross on The Tortured Poets Department, Taylor Swift’s lyrics are filled with literary connections.
Make sure you- Author: Feder, Rachel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 26 2024
- ISBN10: 1683694740
- Language: English
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Literary Journeys: Mapping Fictional Travels Across the World of Literature
$32.00 Add to cartA beautifully illustrated guide to over seventy-five important journeys in world literature, spanning more than thirty countries and twenty-five hundred years
From Homer’s Odyssey, Chaucer’s Canterbur- Author: McMurtrie, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 0691266395
- Language: English
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The Brothers Karamazov: Introduction by Malcolm Jones
$32.00 Read moreDostoevsky’s last and greatest novel is, above all, the story of a murder, told with hair-raising intellectual clarity and a feeling for the human condition unsurpassed in world literature. It is a ma
- Series: Everyman’s Library Classics
- Author: Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 840
- Publish Date: April 28 1992
- ISBN10: 0679410031
- Language: English
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Bicycle
$14.95 Read moreObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
These days the bicycle often appears as an interloper in a world constructed for cars. An alm- Series: Object Lessons
- Author: Maskit, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 25 2024
- ISBN10: 1501338099
- Language: English
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The Book Lover’s Cookbook: Recipes Inspired by Celebrated Works of Literature, and the Passages That Feature Them
$18.00 Add to cartPerfect for book lovers and foodies alike–a splendid cookbook featuring recipes inspired by classic works of literature and modern favorites
Wake up to a perfect breakfast with Mrs. Dalby’s Buttermi- Author: Wenger, Shaunda Kennedy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 29 2005
- ISBN10: 0345465466
- Language: English
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The Anglo-Saxon World: An Anthology
$12.95 Add to cartCrossley-Holland–the widely acclaimed translator of Old English texts–introduces the Anglo-Saxons through their chronicles, laws, letters, charters, and poetry, with many of the greatest surviving p… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Crossley-Holland, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199538719
- Language: English
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Heroines, New Edition
$17.95 Add to cartA manifesto reclaiming the wives and mistresses of literary modernism that inspired a generation of writers and scholars, reissued after more than a decade.
I am beginning to realize that taking the s- Series: Semiotext(e) / Active Agents
- Author: Zambreno, Kate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1635902088
- Language: English
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The Limit of the Useful
$34.95 Add to cartThe first English-language translation of an essential, early work key to understanding the French philosopher’s later thought.
In the decade prior to the publication of Inner Experience (L’exp?ience- Author: Bataille, Georges
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0262047330
- Language: English
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Breaking Bread with the Dead: A Reader’s Guide to a More Tranquil Mind
$17.00 Add to cart“At a time when many Americans . . . are engaged in deep reflection about the meaning of the nation’s history [this] is an exceptionally useful companion for those who want to do so with honesty and i… [more below]
- Author: Jacobs, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1984878425
- Language: English
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The Professor’s House
$9.99 Add to cart‘I knew at once I had come upon the city of some extinct civilization, hidden away in this inaccessible mesa for centuries’
The Professor’s House (1925) depicts the mid-life crisis of Godfrey St. Pete- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Cather, Willa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 08 2026
- ISBN10: 0198861354
- Language: English
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The Man Who Read Everything: The Literary Letters of Harold Bloom
$30.00 Add to cartA selection of the lively letters between one of the world’s greatest literary critics and the poets, novelists, and scholars he most admired
Bringing together a collection of Harold Bloom’s letters to
- Author: Bloom, Harold
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: May 05 2026
- ISBN10: 0300283830
- Language: English
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Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions
$44.95 Add to cartIn an age of globalization characterized by the dizzying technologies of the First World, and the social disintegration of the Third, is the concept of utopia still meaningful? Archaeologies of the Fu… [more below]
- Author: Jameson, Fredric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 431
- Publish Date: April 17 2007
- ISBN10: 1844675386
- Language: English
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Doctor Faustus
$15.99 Read more‘Why must I feel that almost all–no, all–of the devices and conventions used by art are today only fit for parody?’
Adrian Leverk?hn is a composer who, at terrible personal cost, makes the breakthro- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Mann, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: April 08 2026
- ISBN10: 0198867727
- Language: English
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The Art of the Hobbit
$45.00 Add to cartJ.R.R. Tolkien’s complete artwork for The Hobbit, presented for the first time in this edition.
When J.R.R. Tolkien wrote The Hobbit, he was already an accomplished amateur artist, and drew illustrat- Author: Tolkien, J. R. R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 18 2012
- ISBN10: 0547928254
- Language: English
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No More Worlds to Conquer: The Black Poet in Washington, DC
$29.95 Add to cartA history of Black poets in Washington, DC, reveals how they have reflected and transformed American cultural discourse
Washington, DC, has long been home to a dynamic and vibrant African American lite
- Author: Gilmore, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 02 2026
- ISBN10: 164712655X
- Language: English
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River in an Ocean: Essays on Translation
$18.00 Read more“Translation, here, is decolonial feminist work.”– from the Foreword by Fran?ise Verg?.
What are the histories, constraints, and possibilities of language in relation to bodies, origins, land, colonial
- Author: Abbas, Nuzhat
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: June 01 2023
- ISBN10: 177525674X
- Language: English
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Christopher Nolan: The Iconic Filmmaker and His Work
$36.00 Add to cartThis comprehensive and in-depth study delves into the life and works of one of modern films most celebrated, successful and intriguing auteurs, Christopher Nolan.
‘What is the most resilient parasite?- Series: Iconic Filmmakers
- Author: Nathan, Ian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 0711277125
- Language: English
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But Have You Read the Book? Romance Edition: 40 Love Stories That Inspired Our Favorite Films
$20.00 Read moreFor film buffs and literature lovers alike, Turner Classic Movies presents an essential guide to 40 cinema classics and the enduring love stories that served as their heart-tugging inspiration.
What- Author: Lopez, Kristen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: July 28 2026
- ISBN10: 9798894142296
- Language: English
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Bibliophile: Diverse Spines
$18.95 Add to cartIt’s time to diversify your reading list.
This richly illustrated and vastly inclusive collection uplifts the works of authors who are often underrepresented in the literary world. Using their keen kn- Series: Bibliophile
- Author: Harper, Jamise
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1797211919
- Language: English
