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A critical introduction to the "Tropical Gothic" genre in the visual arts, cinema and literature around the world This v......more
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A complete collection of Robert Lowell’s autobiographical prose, from unpublished writings about his youth to reflection......more
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The definitive edition of Emily Dickinson’s correspondence, expanded and revised for the first time in over sixty years.......more
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Now in paperback: a gently powerful memoir about deepening your relationship with your homeland. "A fascinating and evoc......more
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Ali Smith melds the tale and the essay into a magical hybrid form, a song of praise to the power of stories in our lives......more
Richard Rankin lives in North Carolina on family property settled in the mid 1760s and farmed until the 1970s. The desir......more
A series of short nonfiction pieces, Laser Quit Smoking Massage explores the peculiarities of the urban and rural centre......more
What the venerated artist’s letters reveal about his life and art. Wassily Kandinsky was not only the inventor of abstra......more
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A new hardcover selection of Lord Byron’s letters, poems, and journals, tracing his dramatic, scandalous, heroic life an......more
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Ghosts and the Overplus is a celebration of lyric poetry in the twenty-first century and how lyric poetry incorporates t......more
"Following the publication of her acclaimed, darkly funny novel O Caledonia, Elspeth Barker’s sharp and witty essays app......more
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In unflinching yet hopeful prose, this debut memoir in essays explores the most animal parts of our human nature. Discus......more
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Meditations on life, literature, and curiosity amid the shadows In her fourth essay collection, award-winning author Mar......more
The Three Devils: Luther’s, Milton’s, and Goethe’s; With Other Essays, is a classical and a rare book, that has been con......more
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Continuing his contribution to medieval Jewish intellectual history, Haym Soloveitchik focuses here on the radical pieti......more
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Firsthand accounts of war in the Pacific theater from an intrepid reporter of World War II combat War Is Not Just for He......more
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A Publishers Weekly Top 10 Memoir of the Season "An electric call to heal our broken world." -Naomi Klein The work of a ......more
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This critical anthology of writings by Carlos Monsiváis represents a foundational set of texts by an exceptional (yet u......more
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An electric essay collection about Blackness, art, and dreaming of new possibilities in a time of constriction This coll......more
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Onward! is a collection of personal stories about life-changing moments-moments when dreams and beliefs are threatened o......more
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