Northwestern University Press
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Bug: A Play
$16.00 Add to cartTracy Letts’s tale of love, paranoia, and government conspiracy is a thought-provoking psycho-thriller that mixes terror and laughter at a fever pitch.
This dark comedy takes place in a seedy motel roo
- Author: Letts, Tracy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 95
- Publish Date: June 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0810123487
- Language: English
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Foxes for Everybody: Twenty-Four Hours of Early Motherhood
$22.00 Add to cartMeditations on time, motherhood, and the ordinary beauty of everyday life
Like a newborn’s patterns of sleeping and waking, the revelations of motherhood don’t follow a reasonable schedule, and there- Author: Pierce, Catherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: January 15 2026
- ISBN10: 0810149532
- Language: English
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No Stars in Jefferson Park: A Memoir
$24.00 Add to cartA Chicagoan’s coming-of-age memoir finds courage in the face of immense loss
In her early twenties, Maggie Andersen was a founding ensemble member of Chicago’s storied Gift Theatre with her then-boyfr
- Author: Andersen, Maggie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: October 15 2025
- ISBN10: 0810149516
- Language: English
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Funnier: A New Theory for the Practice of Comedy
$30.00 Add to cartA roadmap for understanding and creating comedy from the visionary Second City comedy director
Great comedy can feel ineffable–and unlearnable. Debunking the myth that “either you are funny, or you a
- Author: Libera, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 15 2025
- ISBN10: 0810149362
- Language: English
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Excavation: A Memoir
$24.00 Add to cartThe acclaimed and groundbreaking memoir from Wendy C. Ortiz
A darkly vibrant and daring memoir, Wendy C. Ortiz’s Excavation challenged the standard telling of abuse narratives when first published in- Author: Ortiz, Wendy C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 0810148609
- Language: English
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The Third Coast: America’s Great Lakes Shoreline
$30.00 Add to cartA full-color photographic journey around the Great Lakes
Locals affectionately call the Great Lakes the “third coast”–though at 4,500 miles, this beloved freshwater shoreline is the nation’s longest- Author: Zurick, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: July 15 2025
- ISBN10: 0810148676
- Language: English
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Here, Now: Essays
$22.00 Read moreA deeply felt and humorous collection examining a year in the wake of extraordinary loss
In November 2010, on the morning after election day, Mirsky lost her three-year-old son, Lev. In the year that
- Author: Mirsky, Michelle Suzanne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 081014784X
- Language: English
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Southern Exposure: The Overlooked Architecture of Chicago’s South Side
$37.50 Read moreSouthern Exposure: The Overlooked Architecture of Chicago’s South Side is the first book devoted to the South Side’s rich and unfairly ignored architectural heritage. With lively, insightful text and … [more below]
- Series: Second to None: Chicago Stories
- Author: Bey, Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 15 2019
- ISBN10: 0810140985
- Language: English
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Four of the Three Musketeers: The Marx Brothers on Stage
$34.95 Read moreAn updated paperback version of the book heralded as “a new benchmark in Marx scholarship” by the Los Angeles Times
Before film made them international comedy legends, the Marx Brothers developed the- Author: Bader, Robert S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: September 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0810145758
- Language: English
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Selected Poems
$19.95 Read moreJames McGavran’s new translation of Vladimir Mayakovsky’s poetry is the first to fully capture the Futurist and Soviet agitprop artist’s voice. Because of his work as a propagandist for the Sovie… [more below]
- Series: Northwestern World Classics
- Author: Mayakovsky, Vladimir
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 404
- Publish Date: June 30 2013
- ISBN10: 0810129078
- Language: English
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The White Snake: A Play
$17.00 Read moreIn her latest theatrical production inspired by a classic story, Mary Zimmerman reimagines The White Snake, an ancient Chinese legend in which a snake spirit transforms herself into a beautiful woman … [more below]
- Author: Zimmerman, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 31 2013
- ISBN10: 0810129272
- Language: English
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Hir: A Play
$15.00 Read moreFinalist, 2015 Lambda Literary Award for LGBT Drama
Discharged from the Marines under suspicious circumstances, Isaac comes home from the wars, only to find the life he remembers upended. Isaac’s fat- Author: Mac, Taylor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: October 31 2015
- ISBN10: 081013358X
- Language: English
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The Time We Have: Essays on Pandemic Living
$22.00 Read moreA candid and cathartic exploration of pandemic life, from family to pop culture to healthcare–and beyond
At a time when so many are dealing with collective and personal grief, award-winning author a- Author: Weldon, Michele
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 15 2024
- ISBN10: 0810147343
- Language: English
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The Third Body
$15.95 Read moreIn The Third Body, the poet, novelist, feminist critic, and theorist H駘鈩e Cixous interweaves a loose narrative line with anecdotes, autobiography, lyricism, myth, dream, fantasy, philosophical in… [more below]
- Author: Cixous, Helene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: August 18 1999
- ISBN10: 0810126540
- Language: English
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Black Mountain: An Exploration in Community
$29.95 Read moreWith faculty and alumni that included John Cage, Robert Creeley, Merce Cunningham, Buckminster Fuller, Charles Olson, Josef and Anni Albers, Paul Goodman, and Robert Rauschenberg, Black Mountain Colle
- Author: Duberman, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 616
- Publish Date: April 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0810125943
- Language: English
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Novel with Cocaine
$18.95 Add to cartA Dostoevskian psychological novel of ideas, Novel with Cocaine explores the interaction between psychology, philosophy, and ideology in its frank portrayal of an adolescent’s cocaine addiction. The … [more below]
- Series: European Classics
- Author: Ageyev, M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: October 28 1998
- ISBN10: 0810117096
- Language: English
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The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent: Selected Essays
$29.95 Add to cartBringing together the thoughts of one of American literature’s sharpest cultural critics, this compendium will open the eyes of a whole new audience to the work of Lionel Trilling. Trilling was a stre
- Author: Trilling, Lionel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: August 05 2009
- ISBN10: 0810124882
- Language: English
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Dead Weight: A Memoir in Essays
$22.95 Read moreDead Weight chronicles the improbable turnaround of a drug smuggler who, after being sentenced to eight years in state prison, returned to society to earn a PhD in creative writing and become the only… [more below]
- Author: Horton, Randall
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0810144638
- Language: English
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The Twelve Chairs
$22.95 Add to cartWinner, 2012 Northern California Book Award for Fiction in Translation
More faithful to the original text and its deeply resonant humor, this new translation of The Twelve Chairs brings Ilf and Petro- Series: Northwestern World Classics
- Author: Ilf, Ilya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 574
- Publish Date: October 30 2011
- ISBN10: 0810127725
- Language: English
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Death and the Dervish
$49.92 Add to cartDeath and the Dervish is an acclaimed novel by Bosnian writer Mesa Selimovic. It recounts the story of Sheikh Nuruddin, a dervish residing in an Islamic monastery in Sarajevo in the eighteenth century… [more below]
- Series: Writings from an Unbound Europe
- Author: Selimovic, Mesa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 473
- Publish Date: August 14 1996
- ISBN10: 0810112973
- Language: English
