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David Marr
Stories, essays and speeches from one of Australia's foremost writers and thinkers
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Lauren Oyler
"The essay collection everyone's talking about."--New York
A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2024: Elle, The Millions, LitHub, Nylon, BookPage, PureWow, and more
From the national bestselling novelist and essayist, a…
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Ishion Hutchinson
"Ishion Hutchinson turns his poetic sensibility to questions of home, displacement, and memory in his beautiful and searingly brilliant prose debut"--
Scaachi Koul
The long-awaited follow-up from one of the most original and hilarious voices writing today.
Scaachi Koul's first book was a collection of raw, perceptive, and hilarious essays reckoning with the…
Sasha LaPointe
"Blending beautiful family history with her own personal memories, LaPointe's writing is a ballad against amnesia, and a call to action for healing, for decolonization, for hope." -Elle
The author…
Andrea Long Chu
"From the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic, a bold, provocative collection of essays on one of the most urgent questions of our time: What is authority when everyone has an opinion on…
Ira Madison
In this nostalgic and raucous collection of sixteen original essays, Ira Madison III-critic, television writer, and host of the beloved Keep It podcast-combines memoir and criticism to offer a brand-new…
Richard Russo
"Sharp, tender, extraordinarily intimate reflections on work, culture, love and family from the Pulitzer Prize winning author of SOMEBODY'S FOOL and THE DESTINY THIEF"--
Maggie Nelson
A career-spanning collection of inspiring, revelrous essays about art and artists
Like Love is a momentous, raucous collection of essays drawn from twenty years of Maggie Nelson's brilliant work. These…
Susan Sontag
"A reissue of Susan Sontag's classic first collection, featuring some of her most beloved writing-on art, life, camp, and criticism-that cemented her legacy as one of the brightest thinkers of…
Khadijah Queen
Expanding theoretical practice to return radicality to its original meaning from the Latin-forming a root
Stacy Jane Grover
Joanna Kadish
"Pushes mortality to the very edge with broncos, sharks, and drugs, coming together to create a disturbing picture of American life." JoeAnn Hart, author of Arroyo Circle
As a girl…
Mark Halliday
Living Name is a collection of essays on American poetry written by an expert practitioner of that art. Poet and critic Mark Halliday turns his attention to the work of…
Joe Bonomo
More than at any time in human history, our daily lives are scored and imprinted by music. We listen while bicycling, while taking walks, on the train to and from…
Jill Lepore
A panoptical vision of modern America, from the brilliant mind of Jill Lepore.
Edgar Gomez
"A darkly comic memoir-in-essays about the scam of the American Dream, healing through community, and doing whatever it takes to survive in the Sunshine State-from the award-winning author of High-Risk…
Alton Brown
From Alton Brown, the New York Times bestselling cookbook author and beloved culinary food personality, a debut collection of personal essays defined by his flair, wit, and insight. From cameraman…
Amy Catanzano
Exploring the questions of the universe through poetry and science
Featuring micro-essays inspired by a photograph from their personal archives, this collection offers a snapshot into the lives and interests of a diverse group of writers exploring the relationship between…
Amy Lee Scott
Excavates both personal and public calamities to explore parental loss, motherhood, and transracial adoptee experience.
Frederic Ramel
In this first English-language edition of a sole-authored book from Frdric Ramel, benevolence is defined as a moral principle which promotes temperance and attention to vulnerability. Ramel unpacks this concept…
Bernard Williams, Bernard Williams
What does it mean to be truthful? What role does truth play in our lives? What do we lose if we reject truthfulness? No philosopher is better suited to answer…
Larry Bennett
Why do we seek to return to the past or rescue pieces of the past that may have value in the present? Why does nostalgia attach to an approach to…
Rafe McGregor
Through an examination of Alfonso Cuaron's Children of Men, this book demonstrates the ability of cinematic fictions, and other complex narrative fictions, to contribute to meeting the climate challenge by…
W.G. Sebald
From the renowned author of Austerlitz (named a Top 10 Book of the 21st Century by the New York Times) comes the first English translation of his extraordinary essays on…
Russell Persson
Kidnapped girls trapped in a remote theater surrounded by mountains and jungle are forced into illegal performances, displayed in cabinets with curiosities, their delicate limbs bound by straps, and accompanied…
New essays on early Greek natural philosopher Parmenides, who is perhaps the originator of metaphysics.
Arthur Sze
A poet's creative process comes to light in this latest book by National Book Award recipient Arthur Sze. Sze has assembled an illuminating selection of seven interviews, three essays, and…
In this book, editor Ben Berman Ghan has worked to curate a collection of essays and interviews that capture the different sides of Bruce Meyer. The emphasis is on poetry…
Christina Rivera
Christina Rivera braids lyrical prose with research into endangered marine life. She explores the kinship of bodies of water and beings, ranging from her own experiences of motherhood to mantas…
Amie Souza Reilly
Amie Souza Reilly bought an old house in the suburbs. She had just gotten remarried and was looking forward to a new start with her new husband and her six-year-old…
K. G. Subramanyan
An examination of the dependence and independence of the artist in the contemporary world in which they must choose between consumerism and state support.
In Theory Text Context and Other…
A fascinating discussion of Gandhi's moral values and art stance, providing contemporary ethical reflections.
In Discovering Each Other and Other Essays, K. G. Subramanyan reflects on Gandhi's political and cultural…
Nirmalangshu Mukherji
These essays written since the catastrophic events of 9/11 try to come to terms with the violence that shapes our everyday lives.
Cynthia Ozick
A monumental hardcover collection of the best of Ozick's stories and essays, drawn from across the six-decade career of one of our preeminent writers--just in time for her 97th birthday…
Thomas Dai
A luminous memoir-in-essays exploring place, identity, and what it means to grow up queer and Asian in the American South.
Marianna Marlowe
Infused with a passion for justice, this sublime, expansive memoir by a Peruvian American feminist California writer will appeal to fans of Crying in H Mart and How to Raise…
A Kendra Greene
Revelatory. . . . Prepare yourself to be dazzled." --Ben Fountain, author of Devil Makes Three
Exploding sharks, trees riding bicycles, a Hollywood-esque balloon dress, a giant sloth in costume…
Ian Lynam
A wide-ranging collection of essays spanning design, decolonization and history
Hot on the heels of his books The Impossibility of Silence and The Failed Painter, designer, writer and teacher Ian…
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Richard Rorty
What Can We Hope For? gathers nineteen of Richard Rorty’s essays on American and global politics, including four previously unpublished and many lesser-known and hard-to-find pieces.
Esther Anatolitis (ed.)
A curated collection of essays that shaped Australia's culture and society
Naftali Loewenthal
The Habad school of hasidism is distinguished todayfrom other hasidic groups by its famous emphasis on outreach, on messianism, andon empowering women. This book presents an in-depthstudy of an intriguing…
Susan Manning
Encapsulating a career of studying modern dance
Peter Dale
An unusually wide-ranging and thoughtful perspective on why we make gardens.
Donal Nolan
In this collection, one of the key commentators on the modern law of tort presents 12 of his most important articles and book chapters. These are accompanied by an introductory…
