Literary Criticism
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The Frenchmen: Or, My Life in Theory
$35.00 Read more“A superbly engrossing adventure of ideas…this will surely be my philosophy book of the year.” –Sarah Bakewell, New York Times bestselling author of Humanly Possible
From leading critic and essayi- Author: Eakin, Emily
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: July 21 2026
- ISBN10: 1594206325
- Language: English
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The Odyssey: An Illustrated Guide: A Character-By-Character Guide to the Story of Odysseus
$18.00 Read moreFor almost 3,000 years, the Odyssey has captured imaginations with seafaring adventure, romance, friendships, as well as feats of heroism and of bloody revenge. The tale of Odysseus’ long and eventful… [more below]
- Author: Metzger, Doug
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 23 2026
- ISBN10: 1507226454
- Language: English
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A Third Commonness: Essays on Poetry, Poetics, and the Natural World
$22.00 Add to cartPulitzer Prize winner Robert Hass explores poetry for what it is: a relationship between people and the land.
In A Third Commonness, US Poet Laureate Robert Hass follows a literary river through time
- Author: Hass, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: May 05 2026
- ISBN10: 1556597282
- Language: English
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Hidden Histories of Jazz Age New York: From the Suppressed to the Strange
$29.95 Add to cartOffers a panoramic view of New York City in the 1920s, uncovering hidden histories from within entertainment, politics, arts, technology, and the law.
Hidden Histories of Jazz Age New York offers a fre
- Series: Excelsior Editions
- Author: Goldman, Jonathan Ezra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 348
- Publish Date: May 01 2026
- ISBN10: 9798855806212
- Language: English
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Penelope’s Bones: A New History of Homer’s World Through the Women Written Out of It
$20.00 Add to cartWeaving together literary and archaeological evidence, Emily Hauser illuminates the rich, intriguing lives of the real women behind Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey.
Achilles. Agamemnon. Odysseus. Hector. T- Author: Hauser, Emily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: May 27 2026
- ISBN10: 022684921X
- Language: English
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Lady C: The Long, Sensational Life of Lady Chatterley’s Lover
$30.00 Add to cartA vibrant account of the remarkable novel Lady Chatterley’s Lover, tracing its life over the last century
D. H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover is one of the best-known and most resonant works of th
- Author: Cuthbertson, Guy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 12 2026
- ISBN10: 0300266375
- Language: English
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German Existentialism
$14.00 Add to cart“On the day of German Labor, on the day of the Community of the People, the Rector of Freiburg University, Dr. Marin Heidegger, made his official entry into the National Socialist Party.” And so begin… [more below]
- Author: Heidegger, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 60
- Publish Date: November 26 2007
- ISBN10: 0806530790
- Language: English
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Witches Can’t Be Collared, Vol. 2
$16.00 Add to cartA DEDICATED, DETERMINED DETECTIVE…COMPLICIT?!Detective Rogue Macabesta of the Magic Crimes Bureau got the promotion he never wanted! He’s been saddled with the Sixth Precinct–a covert operation fig… [more below]
- Series: Witches Can’t Be Collared #2
- Author: Yumemi, Yuri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: April 14 2026
- ISBN10: 9798855418781
- Language: English
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Once
$10.99 Add to cartThis first volume of poetry established Walker as a poet of unusual sensitivity and power. All of the poems in this collection were written either in East Africa, where Walker spent the summer of 1965… [more below]
- Series: Harvest Book; Hb 337
- Author: Walker
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 15 1976
- ISBN10: 0156687453
- Language: English
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Dust and Light: On the Art of Fact in Fiction
$17.99 Add to cartHailed as a “genius-enchantress” (Karen Russell) and winner of the MacArthur Fellowship, the celebrated novelist Andrea Barrett has for decades reached backward to find inspiration from the past and w
- Author: Barrett, Andrea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 03 2026
- ISBN10: 1324123494
- Language: English
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Love and Death in the American Novel
$24.95 Add to cartA provocative work of American literary criticism covering Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Nathaniel Hawthorne, William Faulkner, and others. Fielder’s groundbreaking work changed the wa… [more below]
- Author: Fiedler, Leslie a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: April 21 2026
- ISBN10: 1681379694
- Language: English
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Nine Horses: Poems
$20.00 Add to cartIn Nine Horses, Billy Collins, America s Poet Laureate for 2001 2003, continues his delicate negotiation between the clear and the mysterious, the comic and the elegiac. The poems in this collection r… [more below]
- Author: Collins, Billy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 14 2003
- ISBN10: 0375755209
- Language: English
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What the Mirror Said: The Necessity of Black Women in Poetry
$16.95 Add to cartWhen did you feel the pull of poetry? For Ashley M. Jones, the moment she knew she would be a poet was at seven years old–reciting “Harriet Tubman” by Eloise Greenfield. That moment, that poem, showe… [more below]
- Series: Poets on Poetry
- Author: Jones, Ashley M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: April 21 2026
- ISBN10: 0472040197
- Language: English
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Writing During the Apocalypse: Reflections on the Great Unraveling
$24.95 Add to cartAll of American literature is a tragedy. What we’re living through now isn’t a tragedy, however – it’s a horror novel. Why bother writing when the world’s on fire?
Rising authoritarianism. Covid. Inf- Author: Simon, Ed
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 22 2026
- ISBN10: 9798765123218
- Language: English
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Canzoniere: A New Translation
$27.00 Add to cartPetrarch’s Canzoniere stands as one of the greatest and most influential collections of love poetry ever written. In a classic story of love at first sight, the young poet expresses in beautiful verse
- Author: Petrarch
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 07 2026
- ISBN10: 1324096497
- Language: English
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Marginalia: An Autobiography
$14.00 Add to cart“What does it mean to dissolve into one’s text?” Naomi Washer asks in Marginalia: An Autobiography. Comprised of a decade’s worth of notes made in the margins of other writers’ books, collected and ar… [more below]
- Author: Washer, Naomi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1957392398
- Language: English
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Authority: Essays
$19.00 Add to cartLonglisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award
Many worry that criticism is suffering from a crisis of authority. In a world where everyone’s a critic, what is criticism for? Since her canonica- Author: Chu, Andrea Long
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 07 2026
- ISBN10: 1250419905
- Language: English
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Dog Days
$18.95 Add to cartDog Days unfolds in the long shadow of freak violence–where language stammers, time loops, and the body remembers what the mind can’t.
“An incandescent book, a landmark in how to bring language to be
- Author: Labarge, Emily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: May 19 2026
- ISBN10: 9798893380477
- Language: English
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Get a Clue: How to Plot, Write, and Sell Your MG or YA Mystery
$19.95 Add to cartWant to write a mystery for kids or teens, but you’re not sure how? Writing for Young Adult (YA) or middle-grade (MG) readers requires a different approach, and writing YA and MG mysteries is extra ch
- Author: Bradley, Fleur
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 132
- Publish Date: April 07 2026
- ISBN10: 9798993730707
- Language: English
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2027 Fairytale Wall Calendar
$16.99 Read moreStay inspired and organized all year round with the 2027 Fairytale Wall Calendar, designed to bring beauty and magic into your everyday life.
Each month explore one of the world’s most beloved fairyta- Author: Forsyth, Kate
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- Page Count: 28
- Publish Date: August 04 2026
- ISBN10: 1922468355
- Language: English
