By Jenny Bond - $14.50 - add to cart

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Before Who the Hell is Pansy O’Hara ?, there had never been a single volume that explored the backstories of so many of the greatest books in the English language. A work sure to captivate all love...

By Simon Critchley - $32.95 - add to cart

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Starting from the premise that philosophers' deaths have been as interesting as their lives, the author pulls readers in with quirky stories of how philosophers died and then confronts the big them...

By Larry Mcmurtry - $28.00 - add to cart

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In a prolific life of singular literary achievement, Larry McMurtry has succeeded in a variety of genres: in coming-of-age novels like The Last Picture Show; in collections of essays like In a Narr...

By Lee Israel - $23.50 - add to cart

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Before turning to the criminal life, running a onewoman forgery scam out of an Upper West Side studio shared with her tortoiseshell cat, and dodging the FBI, Lee Israel enjoyed a celebrated reputat...

By Charles Tilly - $24.95 - add to cart

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In his eye-opening book Why?, world-renowned social scientist Charles Tilly exposed some startling truths about the excuses people make and the reasons they give. Now he's back with further explora...

By Christopher Panza And Gregory Gale - $21.99 - add to cart

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Explore key existential themes and writings Your friendly guide to finding meaning in a meaningless world Is God "dead"? If we are alone, how should we act? These are key questions posed by e...

By Robert Boswell - $16.50 - add to cart

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Robert Boswell has been writing, reading, and teaching literature for more than twenty years. In this sparkling collection of essays, he brings this vast experience and a keen critical eye to bear ...

By Daniel Mendelsohn - $28.95 - add to cart

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Whether he's on Broadway or at the movies, considering a new bestseller or revisiting a literary classic, Daniel Mendelsohn's judgments over the past fifteen years have provoked and dazzled with t...

By James Wood - $26.50 - add to cart

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What makes a story a story? What is style? What’s the connection between realism and real life? These are some of the questions James Wood answers in How Fiction Works, the first book-length essay ...

By Sloan Crosley - $14.00 - add to cart

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Wry, hilarious, and profoundly genuine, this debut collection of literary essays is a celebration of fallibility and haplessness in all their glory. From despoiling an exhibit at the Natural Histor...

By Ronald Aronson - $27.50 - add to cart

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Ronald Aronson has a mission: to demonstrate that a life without religion can be coherent, moral, and committed. Optimistic and stirring, Living Without God is less interested in attacking religion...

By Irene Gammel - $32.95 - add to cart

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By any standards, Lucy Maud Montgomerys Anne of Green Gables is a stunning success. Published in 1908 (and not once out of print), Anne has sold more than 50 million copies, been translated into mo...

By Rosalyn Diprose And Jack Reynolds - $27.95 - add to cart

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Contributors include Harry Adams, Thomas Busch, Taylor Carman, Suzanne Cataldi, David Cerbone, Scott Churchill, Diana Coole, Nick Crossley, Fred Evans, Shaun Gallagher, Sonia Kruks, David Morris, A...

By Ishmael Reed - $17.00 - add to cart

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A new collection of essays first published in The New York Times and Playboy. Reed tackles subjects including Oakland, eugenics, and domestic violence, and more.

By Adam Kirsch - $28.50 - add to cart

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Over the last ten years, through essays in The New Republic, The New Yorker, and other magazines, Adam Kirsch—"one of the most promising young poet-critics in America" (Los Angeles Times)—has est...