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Samantha Irby
The No 1 New York Times bestselling essayist is back, on point, and ready to be the friend in print we all look forward to spending a little more time…
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George Orwell
These essays, reviews and articles describe the life and work of this writer.
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Selected by editor Emily Urquhart, the 2025 edition ofBest Canadian Essaysshowcases the best Canadian nonfiction writing published in 2023.
Featuring:
Katherine Ashenburg James Cairns Mitchell Consky Michelle Cyca Sadiqa de…
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Maggie Nelson
A career-spanning collection of inspiring, revelrous essays about art and artists
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Hayley Singer
Abandon Every Hope mournfully investigates the literatures of the slaughterhouse and a world motivated by profitable death, to ultimately ask- where does this horror begin and how can it end?
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Ellen Wayland-Smith
In this luminous collection of essays, Ellen Wayland-Smith probes the raw edges of human existence, those periods of life in which our bodies remind us of our transience and the…
Maurice Berger
The first title in Aperture's Vision & Justice Book Series-featuring a collection of award-winning short essays by Maurice Berger that explore the intersections of photography, race, and visual culture. Created…
Lydia Morrison
Test Prep Books' ACCUPLACER Study Guide 2024-2025: 6 Practice Tests and Placement Prep Book for all College Board Sections (ACCUPLACER Math, Reading, Writing, Essay) [8th Edition]
2 Practice Tests in…
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Wesley Morris, Kim Dana Kupperman
A collection of the year's best essays, selected by Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Wesley Morris and series editor Kim Dana Kupperman.
"Imparting some piece of yourself-any part-is arduous and warrants some…
George Kouvaros
Is a patrimony something we inherit or something we create? Does it mark the continuation of the past or its disappearance?
Patti Miller
Writing True Stories is an essential book for anyone who has ever wanted to write a memoir or explore the wider territory of creative non-fiction.
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The new 2025 Scott Specialized Catalogue of United States Essays and Proofs is the essential reference work for collectors of essays as well as trial color, die and plate proofs…
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Fu Wang
Assailing corruption, misrule, and neglect of the common people, Wang Fu's Essays of a Recluse (Qianfulun) offers a rare outsider view of culture, society, and government during the Eastern Han…
Vivian Blaxell
A trans essayist with a checkered past takes on the big questions of human existence
Move over Michel de Montaigne, there's a new girl in town
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Robert Macswain
Explore the riches at the intersection of Anglican and philosophical theology. In this thought-provoking essay collection, Robert MacSwain explores important connections between Anglican and philosophical theology. Shining a spotlight on…
Janet Godwin
With essays, the key to success is in the planning. The fourth edition of this bestselling guide takes students through the complete essay writing process, from planning the task and…
Emma Goldman
Emma Goldman, the 'notorious anarchist' deported from the United States in 1919 for 'seditious activities,' was a leading figure of American anarchism for almost thirty years. She continued to write…
Stephen Orgel
A collection of essays that considers the editorial and interpretive strategies for dealing with complex Shakespearean texts
In his own time, Shakespeare was not a monument, but a man of…
Chris Agee
Superb essays on Ireland and the Balkans, considering parallels between Belfast and Sarajevo.
Paul Hoang, Joseph Koszary
Coming in 2025.
Carla Blank
In a rich, diversified and international career, Carla Blank has been dramaturge, choreographer, stage director, writer, art and architecture critic, defender of women's rights and of a multicultural America, and…
Joan Acocella
A collection of the New Yorker critic's finest essays, which examine the books that reveal and record our world.
Joan Acocella was "one of our finest cultural critics" (Edward Hirsch)…
Rachel Trousdale
Playful love poems to kids, coral reefs, and crows_x000D x000D_Winner of the 2024 Cardinal Poetry Prize_x000D x000D_Five-Paragraph Essay on the Body-Mind Problem is the inaugural winner of the Cardinal Poetry…
R. Eric Tippin
The first full-scale study of the periodical essay between 1880 and 1920.
Charles Farrell
Mitch 'Blood' Green hadmore things going for him to make big money in boxing than nearly any fighterin history. A six-foot-six, 225-pound heavyweight with a chiseled physique anda traffic-stopping look…
Roy Peter Clark
Most high school students never have received any instruction in how to write a personal essay. Yet at a time when getting admitted to their dream college is more competitive…
Isaak Ilyich Rubin
This book is an English translation of Essays on Marx's Theory of Value, first published by Rubin in 1923 in the Soviet Union. This variorum edition includes all the essential…
Jess Hill
What will it take to stop gendered violence?
Fernanda Canales
The house has gone from being an individual affair to becoming the built element with the greatest impact on the planet. In this study, Fernanda Canales analyses the evolution of…
Equip learners to achieve in the Extended Essay. Matched to the first teaching 2025 syllabus, this essential resource provides learners with a step-by-step pathway to maximize achievement. With complete guidance…
Maria de Ponte, Kepa Korta, John Perry
A collaboration between three distinguished professors of linguistics and philosophy.
This book is a result, not only of the collaboration of the three authors but of two universities-the University of…
At the beginning of the First World War, many Irish men were enticed to enlist by the promise of home rule, while others may have joined up to secure a…
At the beginning of the First World War, many Irish men were enticed to enlist by the promise of Home Rule, while others may have joined up to secure a…
L. P. Harvey
What has become of our public sermons, where is the religion of our forebears?‘ 'If the king of the Conquest does not keep his word, what are we to expect…
Aleksandr Burakovskiy
The implementation of perestroika and the unexpected collapse of the USSR provoked unease that long-underlying ethnic tensions could erupt in strife in the post-Soviet world. Of particular concern in Ukraine…
Selected by editor Marcello Di Cintio, the 2024 edition ofBest Canadian Essays showcases the best Canadian nonfiction writing published in 2022.
Lyndsie Bourgon Nicole Boyce Robert Colman Daniel Allen…
Ben S. Bernanke
As chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve during the Global Financial Crisis, Ben Bernanke helped avert a greater financial disaster than the Great Depression. And he did so by drawing…
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Jessica Friedmann
In this stunning collection, Jessica Friedmann navigates her journey through postpartum depression after the birth of her son. Drawing on critical theory, popular culture, and personal experience, her wide-ranging essays…
Lydia Davis
A crystalline collection of literary essays from the Man Booker International Prize-winning author of Can’t and Won’t.
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Eda Gunaydin
In Root & Branch Eda Gunaydin’s essays ask: what are the legacies of migration, apart from loss? And how do we find comfort in where we are?
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Bruce Pascoe
A collection of stories and essays by the award-winning author of Dark Emu, showcasing his shimmering genius across a lifetime of work.
Rachel Kushner
‘I’m glad to taste something this sharp, this smart’ Olivia Laing ‘Wide-ranging and unsparingly intelligent throughout’ Vogue In her twenties Rachel Kushner went to Mexico in pursuit of her first…
David Marr
Stories, essays and speeches from one of Australia's foremost writers and thinkers
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…
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…
