Literary Criticism
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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
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Optimistic Absurdism
$12.99 Add to cartIn a world that often feels chaotic and devoid of inherent meaning, Optimistic Absurdism emerges as a beacon of hope and introspection. With a blend of philosophical inquiry and prose, this thought-pr
- Author: Vernon, Anthony David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 98
- Publish Date: March 23 2026
- ISBN10: 9798295492723
- Language: English
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Legend of the Far East’s Savior, Vol. 1
$16.00 Add to cartAt the end of World War II, a demon-summoning ritual drastically altered the face of the earth. Now, a hundred years later, demons rule the world, and humanity fights back using magicite-powered armor… [more below]
- Series: Legend of the Far East’s Savior #1
- Author: Hotokeyomo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: March 10 2026
- ISBN10: 9798855424362
- Language: English
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The Way of Dante: Going Through Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven with C. S. Lewis, Dorothy L. Sayers, and Charles Williams
$24.99 Add to cartRediscovering Dante with Lewis, Sayers, and Williams
For centuries, readers have marveled at the imaginative brilliance of authors like C. S. Lewis, Dorothy L. Sayers, and Charles Williams. But what in
- Series: Hansen Lectureship
- Author: Gibson, Richard Hughes
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: December 02 2025
- ISBN10: 151401338X
- Language: English
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Wildness: Henry David Thoreau and the Making of an American Theology
$35.00 Add to cartIn and through his experience of nature, Henry David Thoreau imagined and developed a distinctly American theology of the wild.
In Wildness: Henry David Thoreau and the Making of an American Theology,
- Author: Willsky-Ciollo, Lydia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 01 2026
- ISBN10: 0268210748
- Language: English
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Ancient Myths and Legends Without Men: Reclaiming the Stories of Mythology’s Most Iconic Women, Goddesses, and Female Monsters
$22.00 Add to cartMeet the goddesses, warriors, witches, and monsters who shaped and subverted womanhood from the very beginning.
Was Circe really just a temptress? Were the Amazons nothing more than bloodthir- Author: Gold, Mara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 26 2026
- ISBN10: 9798894142739
- Language: English
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Ballot
$14.95 Add to cartObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
Ballot examines the psychological, cultural, and political significance of voting in an incre- Series: Object Lessons
- Author: Enjeti, Anjali
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 05 2026
- ISBN10: 9798765126196
- Language: English
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Talking Classics: The Shock of the Old
$22.50 Read moreThe incomparable Mary Beard is back, and she’s talking all things classics.
Why the ongoing fascination with the ancient world? This witty, approachable book asks why–for better or (sometimes) worse- Author: Beard, Mary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: May 20 2026
- ISBN10: 0226834247
- Language: English
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A Treacherous Secret Agent: How Literature Spoke Truth to Power During the Red Scare
$30.00 Add to cartA world-renowned critic’s haunting and deeply researched account of the subversive acts of literary revenge performed during the Red Scare hearings of the 1950s
In the 1930s, ’40s, and ’50s, the House
- Author: Garber, Marjorie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 24 2026
- ISBN10: 0300282826
- Language: English
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Gilgamesh: A New Verse Translation
$25.00 Add to cartOriginating nearly four thousand years ago in ancient Mesopotamia, the epic of Gilgamesh?tells the story of a tyrannical king and his wild counterpart, Enkidu, spawned by the gods to rein in the king’
- Author: Armitage, Simon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 14 2026
- ISBN10: 1631496689
- Language: English
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My America: Langston Hughes on Democracy
$29.99 Add to cartBest known as the leader of the Harlem Renaissance, the celebrated poet and writer Langston Hughes believed in the power of art as resistance. What can we learn from his works today?
Randal M. Jelks d
- Author: Jelks, Randal Maurice
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 292
- Publish Date: April 07 2026
- ISBN10: 9798889832126
- Language: English
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Turn Where: A Geography of Home
$30.00 Add to cartA probing essay collection that chronicles one woman’s complicated quest to find home in a fractured America, from the award-winning author of Field Study
“In Chet’la Sebree’s sensitive and tender han… [more below]- Author: Sebree, Chet’la
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 05 2026
- ISBN10: 059359584X
- Language: English
