Literary Criticism
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Associate Professor Akira Takatsuki’s Conjecture Ex
$16.00 Add to cartFORGOTTEN TALES FROM THE DESK OF PROFESSOR TAKATSUKI!Professor Mitani, a specialist in modern Japanese history, shows up at Takatsuki’s office clutching a mysterious doll. After Mitani posted a photo … [more below]
- Author: Sawamura, Mikage
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 14 2026
- ISBN10: 1975353110
- Language: English
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Twenty-Nine Goodbyes: An Introduction to Chinese Poetry
$26.95 Add to cartAn engrossing, witty introduction to classical Chinese poetry through twenty-nine translations of a single poem
- Author: Billings, Timothy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1531508359
- Language: English
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All the Violet Tiaras: Queering the Greek Myths
$14.95 Add to cartAncient Greece was rich with stories of queer love and genderfluid identity–but what can these ancient stories tell us about our contemporary world?
Tales as old as antiquity–whether the love affair
- Series: Inklings
- Author: Menzies, Jean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 1912489996
- Language: English
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Trauma Plot: A Life
$19.00 Add to cartFrom a rising literary star and the author of how to be a good girl comes a brilliant, biting, and beautifully wrought memoir of trauma and the cost of survival
A VULTURE NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR “Pie- Author: Hood, Jamie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 03 2026
- ISBN10: 059368608X
- Language: English
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Vermeer’s Afterlives
$39.95 Read moreHow a once-forgotten Dutch painter inspired generations of artists, writers, and filmmakers
Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675) is one of the most beloved painters in the world. But when an enterprising Fren- Author: Yeazell, Ruth Bernard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 23 2026
- ISBN10: 0691277826
- Language: English
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To Sir, Without Love: I’m Divorcing You I, Part 2 (Light Novel): Volume 2
$16.00 Add to cartByletta fully intended to divorce her husband, Arnald, until he suggested an absurd wager. If he can give her a child within one month, they’ll stay together. The clock is ticking as Byletta wavers be… [more below]
- Series: To Sir, Without Love: I’m Divorcing You (Manga)
- Author: Hisakawa, Kori
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 10 2026
- ISBN10: 9798855411904
- Language: English
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The Blazing World and Other Writings
$13.99 Add to cart‘I had rather die in the adventure of noble achievements, than live in obscure and sluggish security.’
One of the most diverse, prolific, and maverick intellectuals of her time, Margaret Cavendish is- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Cavendish, Margaret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: November 13 2025
- ISBN10: 0192862901
- Language: English
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In a Dark Wood: A Memoir
$18.99 Add to cartOn a cold November morning, Joseph Luzzi found himself racing to the hospital. His wife, Katherine, eight-and-a-half months pregnant, had been in a horrible car accident–in one terrible instant, Luzz
- Author: Luzzi, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 14 2016
- ISBN10: 0062357522
- Language: English
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Classics for Pleasure
$18.99 Add to cartThis is not your father’s list of classics. In these delightful essays, Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Dirda introduces nearly ninety of the world’s most entertaining books. Writing with affection as w… [more below]
- Series: Harvest Book
- Author: Dirda, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 10 2008
- ISBN10: 0156033852
- Language: English
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Encounters with Jane Austen: Celebrating 250 Years
$26.82 Read more“The range of the contributors leaves the reader with a sense of how important Austen is to writers in particular, who see in her not simply an antecedent or role model but as an old friend who, with … [more below]
- Series: Encounters With…
- Author: Quinn, Julia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 30 2025
- ISBN10: 1913641511
- Language: English
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Metronome
$14.95 Read moreObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
When the metronome was invented in 1815, it transformed the music world. Composers and musici- Series: Object Lessons
- Author: Birkhold, Matthew H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: November 13 2025
- ISBN10: 9798765108871
- Language: English
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The Bright Edges of the World: Willa Cather and Her Archbishop
$27.95 Add to cartAuthor and historian Garrett Peck traces Willa Cather’s adventures in the Southwest and how they influenced her best book.
Six months before she died, Willa Cather called her 1927 novel Death Comes fo- Author: Peck, Garrett
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 10 2026
- ISBN10: 0826369251
- Language: English
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A Woman of Property
$27.00 Add to cartA Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize
A new book from a poet whose work is “wild with imagination, unafraid, ambitious, inventive” (Jorie Graham) Located in a menacing, gothic landscape, the- Series: Penguin Poets
- Author: Schiff, Robyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 08 2016
- ISBN10: 0143128272
- Language: English
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Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science
$22.95 Add to cartA captivating portrait of the poet and the scientist who shared an enchanted view of nature
Emily Dickinson and Charles Darwin were born at a time when the science of studying the natural world was kn- Author: Bergland, Renée
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 0691235309
- Language: English
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100 Books to Live by: Literary Remedies for Any Occasion
$17.99 Add to cartA collection of life-affirming books to guide you through. Settle down with 100 Books to Live By and learn which book prescriptions can be dispensed to lift your spirits, whatever you may need.
Someti… [more below]
- Series: 100 Things to Live by #1
- Author: Piercy, Joseph
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 07 2026
- ISBN10: 1789298857
- Language: English
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Breaking Into Blossom: Poems with Extraordinary Endings
$29.95 Add to cartBreaking into Blossom gathers modern and contemporary poems that use a wide array of techniques and approaches to ending the poem: endings that crescendo and exhort, double back or taper down, those t… [more below]
- Author: Hankins, Luke
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: February 12 2026
- ISBN10: 1680034383
- Language: English
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Witchcraft Short Stories: Folk Tales & Horror Stories
$26.99 Add to cartFrom the team that created Folk Horror Short Stories, here’s a striking, terrifying, thoughtful and beautiful new book of short stories by award winning authors and new voices too.
An impressive new a- Series: Beyond and Within
- Author: O’Regan, Marie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 17 2026
- ISBN10: 1835625975
- Language: English
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The Horror Theory Reader
$34.95 Add to cartA comprehensive guide to the timeless, paradoxical appeal of horror
Why do we enjoy horror? The emotional responses the genre provokes–fear, dread, and disgust–are ones we typically seek to avoid,- Author: Weinstock, Jeffrey Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: January 06 2026
- ISBN10: 1517917824
- Language: English
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Hardheaded Weather: New and Selected Poems
$27.00 Add to cartFrom Cornelius Eady, one of America’s most engaging voices, comes an exciting collection of poetry that at once delineates the arc of the poet’s universe and highlights the range of his considerable t… [more below]
- Author: Eady, Cornelius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 10 2008
- ISBN10: 0399155112
- Language: English
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Middlemen: Literary Agents and the Making of American Fiction
$29.95 Add to cartA revealing account of how agents have shaped book publishing and the literary canon from the 1950s to today
Middlemen rewrites literary history from the perspective of one of its most important but l- Author: McGrath, Laura B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: April 28 2026
- ISBN10: 0691256160
- Language: English
