Literary Criticism
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Poetry Says It Better: Poems to Help You Wake Up
$26.99 Add to cart“A generous, heartfelt gift.” — Kirkus (STARRED review)
The legendary Academy Award-winning actress reflects on her love affair with poetry and makes us all believers.
We all want inspiration. We want
- Author: Burstyn, Ellen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 28 2026
- ISBN10: 0063387689
- Language: English
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The Journals of John Cheever
$21.00 Add to cartIn these journals, the experiences of one of the most renowned twentieth-century American writers come to life with fascinating, wholly revealing detail. – “A treasure-trove of riches.” —The New York… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Cheever, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: December 09 2008
- ISBN10: 0307387259
- Language: English
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Once Upon a Time There Was Truth: Or, Why We Need Fairy Tales
$28.00 Read moreEssays on imagining a better world in dark times, from one of our most esteemed scholars of fairy tales
Fairy tales take us to a world where magic is commonplace, where wishing works, where the confl- Author: Zipes, Jack
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: April 21 2026
- ISBN10: 0300282389
- Language: English
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The Evolution of Fire: Essays on Crisis and Becoming
$20.00 Add to cart“The Evolution of Fire is stunningly written–vivid in imagery, in the braiding together of language, and in the honoring of every person it shines a light on.”–Hanif Abdurraqib, author of There’s Al
- Author: Pelster, Angela
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: April 14 2026
- ISBN10: 1639551239
- Language: English
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The Bradbury Chronicles: The Life of Ray Bradbury
$17.99 Add to cartAccomplished journalist Sam Weller met the Ray Bradbury while writing a cover story for the Chicago Tribune Magazine and spent hundreds of hours interviewing Bradbury, his editors, family members, and
- Author: Weller, Sam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 21 2006
- ISBN10: 0060545844
- Language: English
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Open Closed Open: Poems
$17.00 Add to cartIn poems marked by tenderness and mischief, humanity and humor, Yehuda Amichai breaks open the grand diction of revered Jewish verses and casts the light of his own experience upon them. Here he … [more below]
- Author: Amichai, Yehuda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: November 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0156030500
- Language: English
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On Frost and Eliot
$25.95 Add to cartNamed a 2025 Outstanding Academic Title by the American Library Association’s Choice Reviews
Robert Frost and T.S. Eliot have received ample attention as major American poets of the last century. But t
- Author: Pritchard, William H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 1589882024
- Language: English
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Paule Marshall: A Writer’s Life
$30.00 Add to cartAn elegant biography of a prescient author whose novels portray Black women’s experiences across the African diaspora
Growing up in World War II-era Brooklyn among West Indian immigrants, Paule Marsha- Series: Black Lives
- Author: Washington, Mary Helen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: February 10 2026
- ISBN10: 0300253850
- Language: English
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Sister Love: The Letters of Audre Lorde and Pat Parker 1974-1989
$14.95 Read more- Series: Sapphic Classic
- Author: Lorde, Audre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 242
- Publish Date: February 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1938334299
- Language: English
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Salvage: Readings from the Wreck
$19.00 Add to cartOne of Literary Hub‘s most anticipated books of 2024. Winner of the 2025 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature. Finalist for the 2025 Zora Awards.
Dionne Brand explores English and American liter- Author: Brand, Dionne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 27 2026
- ISBN10: 1250397723
- Language: English
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The Words of Martin Luther King, Jr.
$12.99 Add to cartCreated as a living memorial to the philosophies and ideas of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., this essential volume includes more than 120 quotations from the greatest civil rights leader’s speeches, ser
- Series: Newmarket Words of
- Author: King, Martin Luther, III
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: March 22 2001
- ISBN10: 1557044503
- Language: English
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Banning Books in America: Not a How-To
$24.00 Add to cartThis is a book about banned books in the U.S. – about reading them, teaching them, and lending them under the shadow of political pressure not to.
Banning Books in America features novelists on bannin- Author: Cohen, Samuel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 19 2026
- ISBN10: 9798765138076
- Language: English
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Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out
$22.99 Add to cart*NATIONAL BESTSELLER*
*A WGN Radio Best Book of 2024*
*A Good Housekeeping Reads pick*A hilarious and incisive exploration of the joys of reading from a “beloved and wonderful writer” (George Saunders),… [more below]
- Author: Reed, Shannon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 1335453512
- Language: English
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Lipstick
$14.95 Add to cartObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
From Revlon to Glossier, from Marilyn to Gaga, lipstick is as shape-shifting and unwieldy as- Series: Object Lessons
- Author: G’Sell, Eileen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: February 19 2026
- ISBN10: 9798765135587
- Language: English
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The Body of Language: Esperruquancluzelubelouzerirelu
$25.00 Read moreAn erudite exploration of transgressive language from the Renaissance by one of Europe’s greatest living philosophers.
This book explores how early modern authors broke linguistic boundaries, creatin
- Series: Italian List
- Author: Agamben, Giorgio
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: November 22 2025
- ISBN10: 1803094761
- Language: English
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T.S. Eliot: An Imperfect Life
$45.00 Add to cartT. S. Eliot was arguably the greatest English-language poet of the twentieth century. In poems such as The Waste Land and Four Quartets, he spoke directly to his times, and his essays influenced a who
- Author: Gordon, Lyndall
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: January 27 2026
- ISBN10: 1324123230
- Language: English
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Everyday Apocalypse: Art, Empire, and the End of the World
$24.95 Add to cartEveryday Apocalypse recovers the root meaning of the term apocalypse (revelation) to use the concept as a lens through which art and other acts of creative nonviolence that often go unseen may be brou… [more below]
- Author: Dark, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 180
- Publish Date: October 15 2025
- ISBN10: 0826507956
- Language: English
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Thinking Through Shakespeare
$35.00 Add to cartHow Shakespeare’s exploration of central human questions–about identity, politics, religion and right and wrong–explains his lasting power, popularity and relevance
In the eighteenth century, Samuel- Author: Womersley, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: March 10 2026
- ISBN10: 0691154104
- Language: English
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If This Be Magic: The Unlikely Art of Shakespeare in Translation
$35.00 Add to cartHow does Shakespeare remain Shakespeare when every word is changed? In this playful, meditative exploration of translating the world’s most beloved playwright, Daniel Hahn guides us through the magic … [more below]
- Author: Hahn, Daniel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 21 2026
- ISBN10: 0593801660
- Language: English
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How to Read Nancy: The Elements of Comics in Three Easy Panels
$29.99 Add to cartEverything that you need to know about reading, making, and understanding comics can be found in a single Nancy strip by Ernie Bushmiller from August 8, 1959. Paul Karasik and Mark Newgarden’s groundb… [more below]
- Author: Karasik, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 276
- Publish Date: October 10 2017
- ISBN10: 1606993615
- Language: English
