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.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
Mariner Books, 2019.
Paperback. Former poet laureate of the United States Donald Hall's final collection of essays, from the vantage point of very old age, once again "alternately lyrical and laugh-out-loud funny."* *(New York Times)"Why should a nonagenarian hold anything back?" Donald Hall answers his own question in these self-knowing.....
W. W. Norton & Company, 2020.
Paperback. This landmark anthology celebrates the indigenous peoples of North America, the first poets of this country, whose literary traditions stretch back centuries. Opening with a blessing from Pulitzer Prize-winner N. Scott Momaday, the book contains powerful introductions from contributing editors who represent the.....
Greenbrae, California: The Allen Press, 1991.
Limited Edition. Hardcover. Allen Press Book #56. Limited edition of one hundred fifteen copies. The typeface is Romanee, and the display running headlines is Cancelleresca Bastarda: both faces were designed by Jan Van Krimpen in Holland; both faces were set by hand at The Allen.....
Harper Perennial, 2022.
Paperback. "Funny, sharp explications of what these sometimes not-very-nice women were up to, and how they sometimes made idiots of . . . but read on!"--Margaret Atwood, author of The Handmaid's Tale
The national bestselling author of A Thousand Ships returns with a fascinating, eye-opening take on.....
Philadelphia: Paul Dry Books, 2020.
First Edition Thus. Paperback. Signed by the author on the title page.
"In this wonderful collection of essays, Mark Jarman explores with wit and passion the practice of poetry--of making it, of reading it, of living it. In his vivid analyses of works by Brooks.....
Ten Speed Press, 2021.
Hardcover. NATIONAL BESTSELLER - Considering a trip to a quaint English village? You'll think twice after learning about the countless murderous possibilities lurking behind the bucolic façades, thanks to this illustrated guide from #1 bestselling author Maureen Johnson and illustrator Jay Cooper--perfect for fans of cozy.....
Rutland, Vermont: Tuttle Publishing, 1981.
Paperback. First Tuttle Edition, 10th Printing. Foreword by Wm. Theodore de Bary.
Between 1330 and 1332 the Buddhist priest Kenko recorded his thoughts, observations, opinions, anecdotes, accounts of customs and ceremonies, everything that seemed to him worthy of preservation. The short essays tell us a......
Penguin Books, 2019.
Paperback. A brilliant and personal examination by sensational and bestselling author Karl Ove Knausgaard of his Norwegian compatriot Edvard Munch, the famed artist best known for his iconic painting The ScreamIn So Much Longing in So Little Space, Karl Ove Knausgaard sets out to understand the enduring.....
