Essays

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"The thike, Claire Crowther's imaginary creation, 'broods, plays, and is "othered" by an uncaring society'. The poetry that appeals to Crowther, and for which she acts as such an eloquent advocate, often does the same. The essays of Sense and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496240507Author Michael DowdyFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint University of Nebraska PressPublisher University of Nebraska Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915553447Author Rory WatermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 314Imprint Shoestring PressPublisher Shoestring PressWeight(grams) 364g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781035036103Author Jamaica KincaidFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint PicadorPublisher Pan Macmillan

From walks in the Luxembourg Garden to letters describing tea with an irascible Tolstoy - Maurice Betz, Rainer Maria Rilke's French translator, enjoyed a rare intimacy with the great poet. This book, inspired by their time working together on the first...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781472297747Author Shenequa GoldingFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Headline Book PublishingPublisher Headline Publishing Group

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909631472Author Jhumpa LahiriFormat PaperbackPage Count 44Imprint Sylph EditionsPublisher Sylph Editions

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909631465Author Michael FinkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 44Imprint Sylph EditionsPublisher Sylph Editions

The Necessity of Poetics marks the moves Robert Sheppard has made as a poet-critic around the notion of poetics in general, and the poetics of linguistically innovative poetry in particular, and his own poetics as an outcome of those.

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'We’re mysterious aliens in the crowd. We jump like fleas from future to past and back again, and float like clouds of gas between nebulae; in a flash, we can reach the edge of the universe, or tunnel into a quark, or swim within a star-core... We’re as...

A new collection of essays reflecting on the centrality of writing anthropological practice from one of the discipline’s most influential thinkers. Michael Taussig’s work is known for its critical insights and bold, experimental style. In the eleven...

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