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The Collapsing Frontier

The Collapsing Frontier

Author: Jonathan Lethem
ISBN: 9781629634883
Format: Paperback
$27.99

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McSweeney's Issue 74 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern)

McSweeney's Issue 74 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern)...

Author: Claire Boyle ,  Dave Eggers
ISBN: 9781952119767
Format: Hardback
$73.92

McSweeney's three-time National Magazine Award-winning quarterly starts 2024 in style with a thrilling back-to-basics...  Read More >>

Pretentiousness: Why it Matters

Pretentiousness: Why it Matters

Author: Dan Fox
ISBN: 9781804270936
Format: Paperback
$22.99

What is pretentiousness? Why are we afraid of it? And more controversially: why is it vital to a thriving culture?...  Read More >>

The Collapsing Frontier

The Collapsing Frontier

Author: Jonathan Lethem
ISBN: 9798887440293
Format: Hardback
$44.99

Having stormed mainstream literature from the outskirts, Lethem has won a readership both wide and deep, all of...  Read More >>

All We Have Is The Story: Selected Interviews (1973-2022)

All We Have Is The Story: Selected Interviews (1973-2022)...

Author: James Kelman
ISBN: 9798887440057
Format: Paperback
$39.99

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Familiarity Breeds Content: New and Selected Essays

Familiarity Breeds Content: New and Selected Essays...

Author: Joseph Epstein
ISBN: 9781668009727
Format: Paperback
$39.99

A collection of personal essays from America’s most revered essay writer, Joseph Epstein. America’s greatest living...  Read More >>

Facing Town and Gown: Futurizing Connection and Community

Facing Town and Gown: Futurizing Connection and Community...

Author: Amy Hagenrater-Gooding
ISBN: 9798986096193
Format: Paperback
$34.29

Facing Town and Gown: Futurizing Connection and Community tells the story of eleven community members bridging education...  Read More >>

All We Have Is The Story: Selected Interviews (1973-2022)

All We Have Is The Story: Selected Interviews (1973-2022)...

Author: James Kelman
ISBN: 9798887440064
Format: Hardback
$69.99

Novelist, playwright, essayist, and master of the short story. Artist and engaged working-class intellectual; husband,...  Read More >>

Myth and (Mis)Information: Constructing the Medical Professions in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century English Literature and Culture

Myth and (Mis)Information: Constructing the Medical...

Author: Allan Ingram ,  Helen Williams
ISBN: 9781526166821
Format: Hardback
$194.99

This book discusses the various cultural forms and literary works by which information, myth and misinformation...  Read More >>

The Secret Lives of Booksellers & Librarians: True stories of the magic of reading

The Secret Lives of Booksellers & Librarians: True stories...

Author: James Patterson
ISBN: 9781529918908
Format: Paperback
$36.99

Featuring original interviews with booksellers and librarians, James Patterson presents a new non-fiction title...  Read More >>

By the River: Essays from the Water's Edge

By the River: Essays from the Water's Edge

Author: Various Contributors
ISBN: 9781914198625
Format: Paperback
$22.99

Twelve writers consider the subject of rivers and how they shape us throughout our lives, demarcating cities as...  Read More >>

Honorable Ambition: Essays in Celebration of Charles R. Kesler

Honorable Ambition: Essays in Celebration of Charles...

Author: Glenn Ellmers ,  Michael Anton
ISBN: 9781641773492
Format: Hardback
$57.99

Charles R. Kesler, an eminent scholar and prodigious editor, has exerted a profound influence on the study of American...  Read More >>

A Woman's Story – WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

A Woman's Story – WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN...

Author: Annie Ernaux ,  Tanya Leslie
ISBN: 9781804270943
Format: Paperback
$22.99

A deeply affecting tribute to her mother’s life and death by Annie Ernaux, winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature. ...  Read More >>

How to Write About Africa

How to Write About Africa

Author: Binyavanga Wainaina
ISBN: 9780241252536
Format: Paperback
$24.99

A trailblazing collection of writing from Binyavanga Wainaina's extraordinary life, featuring an introduction from...  Read More >>

All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess

All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess...

Author: Becca Rothfeld
ISBN: 9780349016238
Format: Paperback
$32.99

From one of the most talented young thinkers in the US, a spiky, funny and intellectually dazzling response to modern...  Read More >>

All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess

All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess...

Author: Becca Rothfeld
ISBN: 9780349016221
Format: Hardback
$49.99

From one of the most talented young thinkers in the US, a spiky, funny and intellectually dazzling response to modern...  Read More >>

M=ec2: Le miracle de l'imagination

M=ec2: Le miracle de l'imagination

Author: Chan N May
ISBN: 9791042225513
Format: Paperback
$77.88

Cet ouvrage explore comment l'imagination influence notre r�alit� � travers des exp�riences personnelles et des...  Read More >>

Local Signs and Wonders: Essays about Belonging to a Place

Local Signs and Wonders: Essays about Belonging to a...

Author: Richard Rankin
ISBN: 9780881469240
Format: Paperback
$34.10

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The Science of Love and Other Writings

The Science of Love and Other Writings

Author: Charles Cros ,  Doug Skinner
ISBN: 9781939663955
Format: Paperback
$31.95

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Revisiting Aldo Leopold’s Land Ethic: Emerging Cultures of Sustainability

Revisiting Aldo Leopold’s Land Ethic: Emerging Cultures...

Author: William Forbes
ISBN: 9781622881376
Format: Paperback
$68.64

Presents a collection of essays about the man acknowleged by some as the father of wildlife conservation. What may...  Read More >>

American Examples: New Conversations about Religion, Volume Three

American Examples: New Conversations about Religion,...

Author: Michael J. Altman ,  Erik Kline
ISBN: 9780817361273
Format: Paperback
$92.27

The third in a series of annual anthologies produced by the American Examples workshop. In the latest volume from...  Read More >>

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