W. W. Norton & Company, 2021.
Paperback. On August 3, 1845, young Emily Dickinson declared, "All things are ready" and with this resolute statement, her life as a poet began. Despite spending her days almost entirely "at home" (the occupation listed on her death certificate), Dickinson's interior world was extraordinary.....
Doubleday Books, 2022.
Hardcover. In this brilliant selection of essays, the award-winning, best-selling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments offers her funny, erudite, endlessly curious, and uncannily prescient take on everything from debt and tech to the climate crisis and freedom and the importance of how to define.....
Vintage, 2011.
Paperback. Probing perhaps more deeply than ever before into American racial practices. --The NationBaldwin's personal reflections on movies gathered here in a book-length essay are also an appraisal of American racial politics. Offering an incisive look at racism in American movies and a vision of America's self-delusions and.....
Beacon Press, 2012.
Paperback. #26 on The Guardian's list of 100 best nonfiction books of all time, the essays explore what it means to be Black in America
In an age of Black Lives Matter, James Baldwin's essays on life in Harlem, the protest novel, movies, and African Americans abroad.....
New York: Oxford University Press, USA, 2000.
First Edition. Hardcover. 6-1/4 x 9-1/2", black paper over boards, xvii, 737pp, epilogue, appendix, bibiography, index, illus. with 19 plates. It is high treason in British law to imagine the king's death. But after the execution of Louis XVI in 1793, everyone in.....
Penguin Press, 2019.
Hardcover. A New York Times Notable Book of 2019A unique exploration of the life and work of Rudyard Kipling in Gilded Age America, from a celebrated scholar of American literatureAt the turn of the twentieth century, Rudyard Kipling towered over not just English literature but the entire.....
Hachette Books, 2021.
Hardcover. The true story of a self-taught Shakespeare sleuth's quest to prove his eye-opening theory about the source of the world's most famous plays, taking readers inside the vibrant era of Elizabethan England as well as the contemporary scene of Shakespeare scholars and obsessives.Acclaimed author of The.....
Vintage, 2021.
Paperback. America's most original and controversial literary critic writes trenchantly about forty-eight masterworks spanning the Western tradition--from Don Quixote to Wuthering Heights to Invisible Man--in his first book devoted exclusively to narrative fiction.In this valedictory volume, Yale professor Harold Bloom--who for more than half a century was regarded.....
Picador USA, 2020.
Paperback. WINNER OF THE 2020 PULITZER PRIZE IN GENERAL NONFICTIONThe Undying is a startling, urgent intervention in our discourses about sickness and health, art and science, language and literature, and mortality and death. In dissecting what she terms 'the ideological regime of cancer, ' Anne Boyer has.....
Pantheon Books, 2022.
Hardcover. Richly illustrated with images from Art Spiegelman's Maus ("the most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust" --The Wall Street Journal), Maus Now includes work from twenty-one leading critics, authors, and academics--including Philip Pullman, Robert Storr, Ruth Franklin, and Adam Gopnik--on the radical achievement.....
Vintage, 2020.
Paperback. "Finally, the biography that Sylvia Plath deserves . . . A spectacular achievement." --Ruth Franklin, author of Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted LifeA Sylvia Plath that focuses on her remarkable literary and intellectual achievements, while restoring the woman behind the long-held myths about her life and art.With.....
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022.
Hardcover. Young Eliot: From St. Louis to The Waste Land was hailed as "exceptional" and "assiduous" (The New York Times). Robert Crawford's meticulous, incisive scholarship continues in Eliot After The Waste Land, an invaluable record of the revolutionary modernist, visionary poet, and troubled man.
After.....
Yale University Press, 2020.
Paperback. Named one of the 10 Best Books of 2019 by the New York Times Book Review"Damrosch brings the Club's redoubtable personalities--the brilliant minds, the jousting wits, the tender camaraderie--to vivid life."--New York Times Book ReviewIn 1763, the painter Joshua Reynolds proposed to his friend Samuel.....
San Francisco: North Point Press, 1981.
Hardcover. Aptly titled, The Geography of the Imagination includes 40 essays on Greek culture, Whitman, Spinoza, Wittgenstein, Ives, Melville, Pavel Tchelitchew, Tolkien, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, Charles Olson, Marianne Moore, Eudora Welty, Lois Zukovsky, and many others. Each essay is a tour of the.....
Picador USA, 2020.
Paperback. A selection of essays on writing and reading by the master short-fiction writer Lydia Davis
Lydia Davis is a writer whose originality, influence, and wit are beyond compare. Jonathan Franzen has called her "a magician of self-consciousness," while Rick Moody hails her as the best prose.....
Uitgeverij Luster, 2016.
Hardcover. - An original must-have for book lovers, designers, readers, writers and aesthetes- 100 quotes about reading, writing and books, in a unique, typographical presentation by designer Dooreman- "Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to.....
Liturgical Press, 2016.
Paperback. Proems, taut tales, small stories with rhythm and blues and grace and bruise and laughter between the lines. Brian Doyle's The Kind of Brave You Wanted to Be is a book of cadenced notes on the swirl of miracle and the holy of attentiveness; a book.....
Back Bay Books, 2020.
Paperback. From a "born storyteller" (Seattle Times), this playful and moving bestselling book of essays invites us into the miraculous and transcendent moments of everyday life.When Brian Doyle passed away at the age of sixty after a bout with brain cancer, he left behind a cult-like.....
W. W. Norton & Company, 2022.
Hardcover. Most of us give little thought to the back of the book--it's just where you go to look things up. But as Dennis Duncan reveals in this delightful and witty history, hiding in plain sight is an unlikely realm of ambition and obsession.....
Red Hen Press, 2021.
Paperback. Sinking Islands continues the story of Bronwyn Artair, a scientist who possesses the power to influence the natural forces of the Earth. After several successful interventions, including one in Siberia, she has gone into hiding, worried about unintended consequences of her actions, as well as.....
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
First Edition. Hardcover. Personal credit relations were ubiquitous in English consumer markets, binding family members, friends, neighbors, customers and tradesmen in tangled liens of mutual obligation. In this study of the social history of personal debt and credit, Margo Finn reveals the pre-eminence of social.....
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.
Hardcover. A lively exploration of the joys of a not-so-dead languageFrom the acclaimed novelist and Oxford professor Nicola Gardini, a personal and passionate look at the Latin language: its history, its authors, its essential role in education, and its enduring impact on modern life--whether we.....
University of Chicago Press, 2021.
Hardcover. In this ambitious successor to The Great Derangement, acclaimed writer Amitav Ghosh finds the origins of our contemporary climate crisis in Western colonialism's violent exploitation of human life and the natural environment.A powerful work of history, essay, testimony, and polemic, Amitav Ghosh's new book.....
New World Library, 2021.
Hardcover. One of the world's foremost writing teachers invites readers on a joyful journey into the reading and origins of haiku A haiku is three simple lines. But it is also, as Allen Ginsberg put it, three lines that "make the mind leap." A good one.....
Picador USA, 2018.
Paperback. A revelatory narrative of the intersecting lives and works of revered authors Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster and D. H. Lawrence during 1922, the birth year of modernism
The World Broke in Two tells the fascinating story of the intellectual and personal journeys.....
