Essays Books
Little, Brown & Company Festival Days
Book SynopsisA searing and exhilarating new collection from the award-winning author of The Boys of My Youth and In Zanesville, who "honors the beautiful, the sacred, and the comic in life" (Sigrid Nunez, National Book Award winner for The Friend).
£14.24
Little, Brown & Company Naked
Book SynopsisThe author recounts hitchhiking across the country with an odd cast of quadriplegics and deadbeats, working as a migrant worker in North Carolina, and other adventures.
£16.19
Random House USA Inc Due Considerations
Book SynopsisA page-turning collection of essays and literary criticism on topics ranging from books, writers, poker, cars, faith, and the American libido—from one of the most gifted American writers of the twentieth century and the author of the acclaimed Rabbit series. [Updike is] one of the best essayists and critics this country has produced in the last century.—The Los Angeles TimesHere Updike considers many books, some in introductions—to such classics as Walden, The Portrait of a Lady, and The Mabinogion—and many more in reviews, usually for The New Yorker. Ralph Waldo Emerson and the five Biblical books of Moses come in for appraisal, along with Uncle Tom’s Cabin and The Wizard of Oz.Contemporary American and English writers—Colson Whitehead, E. L. Doctorow, Don DeLillo, Norman Rush, William Trevor, A. S. Byatt, Muriel Spark, Ian McEwan—receive attentive a
£18.00
Vintage Espanol Una casa propia A House of My Own
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£13.50
Ecco Press Constellations
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£14.39
Mariner Books Slime
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£16.14
HarperCollins Best American Travel Writing 2020 The Best
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£15.62
HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Best American Essays 2022
Book SynopsisA collection of the year’s best essays, selected by award-winning writer Alexander Chee.Alexander Chee, an essayist of “virtuosity and power” (Washington Post), selects twenty essays out of thousands that represent the best examples of the form published the previous year.Trade Review“New Yorker writer Schulz (Being Wrong) collects essays that skillfully combine journalistic and literary sensibilities in this powerful addition to the annual anthology series… This is a moving retrospective of a singular year.” — Publishers Weekly on The Best American Essays 2021 “These essays challenge personal and political assumptions and show us life in all its complexities and contradictions. Which in this American moment, and in every other, matters.” — USA Today “[A] thoughtful entry in the long-running series...The works in this year’s collection are a mix of the disconcerting, the probing, and the self-reflective, and well-suited to challenging times.” — Publishers Weekly
£12.34
Fsg Originals Impossible Owls Essays
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£15.30
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Giving Good Weight
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£16.20
Farrar, Straus and Giroux The John McPhee Reader
Book SynopsisThe John McPhee Reader, first published in 1976, is comprised of selections from the author''s first twelve books. In 1965, John McPhee published his first book, A Sense of Where You Are; a decade later, he had published eleven others. His fertility, his precision and grace as a stylist, his wit and uncanny brilliance in choosing subject matter, his crack storytelling skills have made him into one of our best writers: a journalist whom L.E. Sissman ranked with Liebling and Mencken, who Geoffrey Wolff said is bringing his work to levels that have no measurable limit, who has been called a master craftsman so many times that it is pointless to number them.
£19.55
Farrar, Straus and Giroux The Second John McPhee Reader
Book SynopsisThis second volume of The John McPhee Reader includes material from his eleven books published since 1975, including Coming into the Country, Looking for a Ship, The Control of Nature, and the four books on geology that comprise Annals of the Former World.
£20.40
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Irons in the Fire
Book SynopsisThis acclaimed collection of essays begins with the title essay and a trip to Nevada, where, in the company of a brand inspector, John McPhee discovers that cattle rustling is not just history.
£16.15
Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc Pulphead
Book SynopsisNamed A Best Book of 2011 by the New York Times, Time Magazine, the Boston Globe and Entertainment WeeklyA sharp-eyed, uniquely humane tour of America''s cultural landscapefrom high to low to lower than lowby the award-winning young star of the literary nonfiction world.In Pulphead, John Jeremiah Sullivan takes us on an exhilarating tour of our popular, unpopular, and at times completely forgotten culture. Simultaneously channeling the gonzo energy of Hunter S. Thompson and the wit and insight of Joan Didion, Sullivan shows uswith a laidback, erudite Southern charm that''s all his ownhow we really (no, really) live now. In his native Kentucky, Sullivan introduces us to Constantine Rafinesque, a nineteenth-century polymath genius who concocted a dense, fantastical prehistory of the New World. Back in modern times, Sullivan takes us to the Ozarks for a Christian rock festival; to Florida to meet the alumni and st
£15.20
Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc 100 Essays I Dont Have Time to Write
Book Synopsis100 Essays I Don't Have Time to Write is a book in which chimpanzees, Chekhov, and child care are equally at home. Sarah Ruhl is a mother of three and one of America's best-known playwrights. She has written a book of essays whose concerns range from the most minimal and personal subjects to the most encompassing matters of art and culture.
£13.62
Farrar, Straus and Giroux American Originality
Book SynopsisWINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREA luminous collection of essays from Louise Glück, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and one of our most original and influential poetsFive decades after her debut poetry collection, Firstborn, Louise Glück is a towering figure in American letters. Written with the same probing, analytic control that has long distinguished her poetry, American Originality is Glück's second book of essaysher first, Proofs and Theories, won the 1993 PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction. Glück's moving and disabusing lyricism is on full display in this decisive new collection. From its opening pages, American Originality forces readers to consider contemporary poetry and its demigods in radical, unconsoling, and ultimately very productive ways. Determined to wrest ample, often contradictory meaning from our current literary discourse, Glück comprehends and destabilizes notions of narc
£14.45
MCD X Fsg Originals The First Collection of Criticism by a Living
Book SynopsisJessica Hopper''s criticism is a trenchant and necessary counterpoint not just on music, but on our culture at large. Annie Clark, St. VincentAn acclaimed, career-spanning collection from a fiercely feminist and revered contemporary rock critic, reissued with new materialThroughout her career, spanning more than two decades, Jessica Hopper, a revered and pioneering music critic, has examined women recording and producing music, in all genres, through an intersectional feminist lens. The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic features oral histories of bands like Hole and Sleater Kinney, interviews with the women editors of 1970s-era Rolling Stone, and intimate conversations with iconic musicians such as Björk, Robyn, and Lido Pimienta. Hopper journeys through the truths of Riot Grrrl''s empowering insurgence; decamps to Gary, Indiana, on the eve of Michael Jackson''s death; explodes the grunge-era mythologies of Nirvana and Courtney Love; and examines the rise of emo. The collection also includes profiles and reviews of some of the most-loved, and most-loathed, women artists making music today: Fiona Apple, Kacey Musgraves, M.I.A., Miley Cyrus, Lana Del Rey. In order for the music industry to change, Hopper writes, we need the continual presence of radicalized women . . . being encouraged and given reasons to stay, rather than diminished by the music which glues our communities together. The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Criticpublished to acclaim in 2015, and reissued now with new material and an introduction by Samantha Irbyis a rallying cry for women-centered history and storytelling, and a groundbreaking, obsessive, razor-sharp panorama of music writing crafted by one of the most influential critics of her generation.
£17.85
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Alphabetical Diaries
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£21.60
Random House USA Inc Essays Everymans Library Contemporary Classics
Book SynopsisA generous and varied selection–the only hardcover edition available–of the literary and political writings of one of the greatest essayists of the twentieth century. Although best known as the author of Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-four, George Orwell left an even more lastingly significant achievement in his voluminous essays, which dealt with all the great social, political, and literary questions of the day and exemplified an incisive prose style that is still universally admired. Included among the more than 240 essays in this volume are Orwell’s famous discussion of pacifism, “My Country Right or Left”; his scathingly complicated views on the dirty work of imperialism in “Shooting an Elephant”; and his very firm opinion on how to make “A Nice Cup of Tea.” In his essays, Orwell elevated political writing to the level of art, and his motivating ideas–his desire for
£42.75
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions and Deaths Duel
Book SynopsisJohn Donne (1572-1631) is best known as the greatest English metaphysical poet. But there was another dimension to Donne''s life and writing that, if less well known, is no less profound and beautiful. Born into an aristocratic Catholic family, Donne joined the Church of England at the age of twenty-one out of fear of persecution. At the age of forty-three, he gave up his preoccupations with secular prestige and devoted himself utterly to religion. It was eight years later when, battered with fever, the deaths of his beloved wife, several of his children, and many dear lifelong friends, he composed Devotions upon Emergent Occasions. There is both trauma and great drama in this extended meditation on the meaning of mortality, the possibility of salvation, and the true nature of the passage of eternal life. With a new introduction by poet and biographer Andrew Motion, one of the most revered books of Christian devotion speaks to us again of the higher aspirations of man an
£12.34
Random House USA Inc Keep It Pithy
Book SynopsisFrom the bestselling author of Killing Lincoln and host of Fox News' top show The O'Reilly Factor, the best of Bill O’Reilly’s provocative writing—reflecting his ideas, wisdom, and core valuesBill O’Reilly is one of the most recognized and talked-about journalists of our time. With an unparalleled track record as an author and with the #1-rated Fox News show, The O’Reilly Factor, O’Reilly has become a veritable institution of political insight and keen advice. In Keep It Pithy, O’Reilly offers a classic collection of the most memorable writings from his bestselling books, and looks back at how his opinions and ideas have been proven right or wrong by the passage of time. With his trademark candor and no-nonsense approach, each chapter focuses on a core theme as it gathers O’Reilly’s thoughts on the most compelling issues of our time and provides readers an illuminating
£18.00
WW Norton & Co Jonathan Swift
Book SynopsisA rich and riveting portrait of the man behind Gulliver’s Travels, by a “vivid, ardent, and engaging” (New York Times Book Review) author.Trade Review"Stubbs’s in-depth analysis of the vast cultural impact of Swift’s many works is impressive, as are his portraits of Swift’s literary acquaintances… This astute portrait of a complicated man who wanted to defend his homeland…is truly masterful. A rich and sweeping story superbly told." -- Kirkus Reviews, starred review"Vivid…exacting and thought-provoking… Stubbs excels at showing how Swift became ‘the most notorious writer of his day.’" -- Publishers Weekly"One of the many virtues of John Stubb’s compendious, deeply researched and absorbing biography is that it illuminates the events not just of Swift’s life but of the world before and around him....In this superb biography, Stubbs succeeds in enabling us to understand the complexities and character of this greatest of writers." -- The Times
£30.39
WW Norton & Co The Latin Deli Telling the Lives of Barrio Women
Book SynopsisThrough her beautifully lyrical writing, Judith Ortiz Cofer tells us of the women's lives that entangled with hers in El Building in Paterson, New Jersey.Trade Review"This powerful collection of stories, essays, and poems shows a remarkable range, and, like a great singer, Judith Ortiz Cofer knows how to hit all the notes." -- Larry Brown
£12.78
W. W. Norton & Company In Brief
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£14.36
WW Norton & Co News from the World
Book Synopsis“Not only can Fox see, she can hear, she can feel.”—Zadie Smith, Harper’sTrade Review"The unfettered voice found in Fox's wide-ranging personal essays [lingers] in the memory." -- Megan O'Grady "Fox's style is jagged, elliptical at times and even rough. In fact it has a unique expressiveness; an industrial, not a jeweler's diamond, and used for cutting, not display." -- Richard Eder "Leaves the reader with a bolstering sense of having been enriched by a view of the world at once rigorously thoughtful and deeply felt." "What makes News from the World more than the sum of its parts is Fox's voice: astringent (but never cold), unsentimental (but never pitiless), exasperated (but never angry)." -- David Leavitt
£11.39
W. W. Norton & Company Cultural Cohesion The Essential Essays 19682002
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£19.76
W. W. Norton & Company The Seagull Book of Essays
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£40.92
W. W. Norton & Company The Little Norton Reader 50 Essays from the First
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£49.02
WW Norton & Co Pierre Or The Ambiguities
Book SynopsisMagnificent and strange, Pierre is a richly allusive novel mirroring both antebellum America and Herman Melville’s own life.
£25.15
WW Norton & Co St. Thomas Aquinas on Politics and Ethics
Book SynopsisSt. Thomas Aquinas on Politics and Ethics contains translations of carefully chosen and central selections from The Summa Against the Gentiles, On Kingship or The Governance of Rulers, and The Summa of Theology.
£18.34
WW Norton & Co David Copperfield
Book SynopsisThis Norton Critical Edition reprints the original 1850 text of Dickens’ most autobiographical novel, and his own personal favorite, including all of the line drawings by Phiz.
£20.92
WW Norton & Co Coleridges Poetry and Prose
Book SynopsisColeridge combined the genius of a poet with the mind of a philosophical critic.
£23.03
Penguin Putnam Inc Autumn
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Penguin Putnam Inc Winter
Book SynopsisThe second volume in his autobiographical quartet based on the seasons, Winter is an achingly beautiful collection of daily meditations and letters addressed directly to Knaugsaard's unborn daughter 2 December - It is strange that you exist, but that you don't know anything about what the world looks like. It's strange that there is a first time to see the sky, a first time to see the sun, a first time to feel the air against one's skin. It's strange that there is a first time to see a face, a tree, a lamp, pajamas, a shoe. In my life it almost never happens anymore. But soon it will. In just a few months, I will see you for the first time. In Winter, we rejoin the great Karl Ove Knausgaard as he waits for the birth of his daughter. In preparation for her arrival, he takes stock of the world, seeing it as if for the first time. In his inimitably sensitive style, he writes about the moon, water, messiness, owls, birthdays--to name just a handf
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Penguin Putnam Inc Summer
Book SynopsisThe grand finale of Karl Ove Knausgaard's masterful and intensely-personal series about the four seasons, illustrated with paintings by the great German artist Anselm KieferThe conclusion to one of the most extraordinary and original literary projects in recent years, Summer once again intersperses short vividly descriptive essays with emotionally-raw diary entries addressed directly to Knausgaard's newborn daughter. Writing more expansively and, if it is possible, even more intimately and unguardedly than in the previous three volumes, he mines with new depth his difficult memories of his childhood and fraught relationship with his own father. Documenting his family's life in rural Sweden and reflecting on a characteristically eclectic array of subjects--mosquitoes, barbeques, cynicism, and skin, to name just a few--he braids the various threads of the previous volumes into a moving conclusion. At his most voluminous since My Struggle, his epic sensational
£15.52
Random House USA Inc ATTENTION
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£17.00
Random House USA Inc Blind Spot
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£32.00
Basic Books The Way We Eat Now
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£24.00
The University of Michigan Press How Long Have You Been With Us
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£999.99
The University of Michigan Press Condition Red
Book SynopsisCollects writing by one of America's most gifted and revered poets, Yusef Komunyakaa. While themes from his earlier prose collection, Blue Notes, run through Condition Red, this volume expresses a greater sense of urgency about the human condition and the role of the artist.Trade Review[Komunyakaa] has not only displayed a profound understanding of the human condition, but also a craftsman's ability to durably articulate it . . . a major poet of our generation."" - Laurence Goldstein, in Callaloo
£999.99
The University of Michigan Press Mad Heart Be Brave
Book SynopsisBorn and raised in Kashmir, Agha Shahid Ali (1949-2001) came to the United States in the mid-1970s to pursue graduate study in literature; by the mid-1980s, he had begun to establish himself as one of the most important American poets of the late 20th century. Mad Heart Be Brave: On the Poetry of Agha Shahid Ali is the first comprehensive examination of all stages of his career.
£999.99
The University of Michigan Press A Hundred Himalayas
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£999.99
The University of Michigan Press Anne Carson
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The University of Michigan Press How Long Have You Been With Us
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The University of Michigan Press Mad Heart Be Brave
Book SynopsisBorn and raised in Kashmir, Agha Shahid Ali (1949-2001) came to the United States in the mid-1970s to pursue graduate study in literature; by the mid-1980s, he had begun to establish himself as one of the most important American poets of the late 20th century. Mad Heart Be Brave: On the Poetry of Agha Shahid Ali is the first comprehensive examination of all stages of his career.
£999.99
The University of Michigan Press Straight Line
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£999.99
The University of Michigan Press Lucian and the Latins
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The University of Michigan Press The Taste for Nothingness
Book SynopsisApplies a close-reading methodology to Lucan's Bellum Civile to analyse Lucan's distortions of traditional epic forms. Sklenar's work not only illuminates many passages of this author for classicists but also captures the attention of comparatists.Trade Review. . . full of fascinating readings of many passages of the Bellum Civile and it is on these grounds that it can most thoroughly be recommended. In particular, the reader who is new to Lucan will find the application of the critical tools which have developed over the last thirty years to large portions of the text very useful." —Bryn Mawr Classical Review
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