Essays

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781405968089Author Deborah LevyImprint PenguinPublisher Penguin Books Ltd

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Following the acclaimed Dunce, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, comes Mary Ruefle’s latest prose publication The Book, now in softcover.True to its bold title, The Book affirms Mary Ruefle’s legacy as (dubbed by Publishers Weekly) “the patron...

I am sitting in bed next to Mariah Carey. She’s wearing a pair of tiny boxer shorts and a belly-airing vest. “You can lie down if you want”, she says. “I mean it’s fine, be comfortable, “ so I lean further back into the pillows, feigning being...

Award-winning environmentalist, author, and journalist Bill McKibben selects twenty science and nature essays that represent the best examples of the form published in the previous year.A collection of the best science and nature articles published in...

From acclaimed fiction writer Kyle Minor emerges a collection of essays all about disappearing. Considering a wide scope of cultural, historical, spiritual, and philosophical figures and ideas, Minor assembles a collection of essays centered on the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781558613348Author Jiz LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Feminist Press at The City University of New YorkPublisher Feminist Press at The City...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781529937732Author Diana EvansImprint Vintage DigitalPublisher Random House (Digital)

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916809796Author Virginia WoolfFormat PaperbackPage Count 20Imprint ERISPublisher ERIS

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063334014Author Bill McKibbenImprint HarperAudioPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

A collection of the year’s best essays, selected by Pulitzer Prize–winning critic Wesley Morris.Wesley Morris, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and acclaimed New York Times critic, selects twenty essays out of thousands that represent the best examples...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063392182Author Gay TaleseFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 454g

A Most Anticipated Book of 2023 from: LA Times * Boston Globe * The Millions * LitHub * ShondalandBy the New York Times bestselling author of the award-winning AFTERPARTIES comes a collection like none other: sharply funny, emotionally expansive essays...

A virtuosic inquiry into the forms and uses of healing, from ancient and modern medicine to contemporary literature, ecology, and protest.In the era of the “chronic acute” long predating COVID-19, Eleni Stecopoulos set out to investigate the imagination,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063351578Author Wesley MorrisImprint HarperAudioPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781939663986Author Gaston de PawlowskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Wakefield PressPublisher Wakefield Press

A brilliantly provocative and entertaining essay collection about the Y2K era, the generation-defining period that birthed everything from AOL Instant Messenger, the Hummer H2, bling-era rap, and low-rise jeans, to McMansions, anti-Bush chain emails, Abu...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262049283Author Marcella DurandFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

A poet’s debut essay collection exploring American faults through the eyes of a Dominican American In Traveling Freely: Essays, Roberto Carlos Garcia explores intersecting topics such as race, identity, American socioeconomic inequality, police violence,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692876190Author Thomas Christopher GreeneFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Rootstock PublishingPublisher Rootstock PublishingWeight(grams) 186g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781472127730Author Ian HamiltonFormat HardbackPage Count 512Imprint ConstablePublisher Little, Brown Book GroupWeight(grams) 41g

A Contemporary Classics hardcover edition of Virginia Woolf’s classic plea for aworld in which women are free to use their gifts. In this influential extended essay and using powerful images and memorable thought experiments -such as a fictional sister...

Essays chronicling the beauty and awe of Appalachia through the eyes of a lifelong West Virginian. Winner of the 2023 Autumn House Nonfiction Prize, Deep & Wild is the debut essay collection of Laura Jackson. Jackson, a lifelong West Virginian, employs...

From twice Booker-shortlisted author Deborah Levy, a moving and revelatory collection exploring the muses that have shaped her life and work as a writerIn The Position of Spoons, Deborah Levy invites the reader into the interiors of her world, sharing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912475384Author David RieffFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint ERISPublisher ERIS

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909889668Author Thomas MeaneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 380Imprint Granta MagazinePublisher Granta Magazine

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063333970Author Colette ShadeImprint HarperAudioPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

‘Fresh, risky, improvisational and hard-to-categorize writing’ - Chicago TribuneTalk Stories is a collection of Jamaica Kincaid's original writing for the New Yorker's ‘Talk of the Town’ column from 1978 to 1983. New York is a town that fast adopts those...

This original and deeply provocative book was the first to make Palestine the subject of a serious debate – one that remains as critical as ever. With the rigorous scholarship he brought to his influential Orientalism and an exile’s passion (he is...

Born Deaf into an ASL-speaking family and blind by adolescence, John Lee Clark learned to embrace the possibilities of his tactile world. He is on the frontlines of the Protactile movement, which gave birth to an unprecedented language and way of life...

Ever since the Long Expedition labeled the plains west of the Mississippi the "Great American Desert," Americans have grappled with the radical differences between the humid East and the arid West. Wild, Weird, West: Essays on Arid America collects a...

Tracing a loose arc from Edwidge Danticat's childhood to the COVID-19 pandemic and recent events in Haiti, the essays gathered in We're Alone include personal narrative, reportage, and tributes to mentors and heroes such as Toni Morrison, Paule Marshall,...

In his foreword to The Ways of Paradise, Peter Cornell presents this so-called found manuscript, the work of a now-deceased, obscure researcher who spent three decades in the National Library of Sweden working on his magnum opus. Upon his death, no trace...

Contributions by Ruth R. Caillouet, Mary C. Carruth, Nancy Dixon, Kathleen Downes, Edward J. Dupuy, Shari Evans, Paul Fess, Carina Evans Hoffpauir, Leslie Petty, Heidi Podlasi-Labrenz, Tierney S. Powell, Shanna M. Salinas, Matthew Teutsch, and Marcus...

An expansive volume on Tejana identity and Tejanidad told through personal narratives, poetry, and essays. Being Tejanx is different than just being from Texas. Being Tejanx means you are a border subject. Being Tejanx means living in and from a certain...

Stimulating. Entertaining. Fresh. A treasure trove. These are just some of the words reviewers use to describe the Sixteenth Edition of The Norton Reader. Essays on timely issues and enduring ideas will welcome and engage students, and trusted...

In the early 1820s, the acclaimed Victorian philosopher, social critic, and essayist Thomas Carlyle achieved a level of expertise in German language and literature that prompted editors to seek him out as a reviewer and launched his career as an essayist...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063392212Author Gay TaleseImprint HarperAudioPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

The Unsignificant: Three Talks on Poetry and Pictures is a selection of lectures that poet and Griffin Award–finalist Srikanth Reddy presented for the Bagley Wright Lecture Series in 2015.True to its title, The Unsignificant is concerned with what it’s...

Recombinant Theory is a collection of literary essays that challenge how readers interact with and perceive text, context, and critical writing. Working with printed pages and scissors, Joel Katelnikoff applies literal cut-up techniques to the complete...