Essays

In The Mathematics of the Breath and the Way, Charles Bukowski considers the art of writing, and the art of living as writer. Bringing together a variety of previously uncollected stories, columns, reviews, introductions, and interviews, this book finds...

Ranging from Ta-Nehisi Coates's case for reparations to D'Angelo's simmering blend of R&B and racial justice, Jesse McCarthy's dazzling essays capture debates at the intersection of art, literature and politics in the twenty-first century with virtuosic...

We cannot understand the phenomenon of remembering without invoking its opposite, forgetting. Taking his cue from Beckett - 'only he who forgets remembers' - Josipovici uncovers a profound cultural shift from societies that celebrated ritual remembrance...

Following The Broken Estate, The Irresponsible Self, and How Fiction Works - books that established James Wood as the leading critic of his generation - The Fun Stuff confirms Wood's pre-eminence, not only as a discerning judge but also as an appreciator...

In April 1926, the Japanese poet Taneda Santoka (1882-1940) set off on the first of many walking trips, journeys in which he tramped thousands of miles through the Japanese countryside. These journeys were part of his religious training as a Buddhist...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644450895Author Lars HornFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Graywolf PressPublisher Graywolf PressWeight(grams) 313gDimensions(mm) 212mm * 144mm * 16mm

Advertisements for Myself is a comprehensive collection of the best of Norman Mailer's essays, stories, interviews and journalism from the Forties and Fifties, linked by anarchic and riotous autobiographical commentary. Laying bare the heart of a witty,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789354893346Author Ajay ChhibberFormat HardbackPage Count 492Imprint HarperCollins IndiaPublisher HarperCollins IndiaWeight(grams) 480gDimensions(mm) 250mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780358381754Author Robert AtwanFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing CompanyPublisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt...

An exemplary collection of work from one of the world's leading scholars of intellectual history "Foeldenyi . . . stage[s] a broad metaphysical melodrama between opposites that he pursues throughout this fierce, provoking collection (expertly translated...

When Trisha Low moves west, her journey is motivated by the need to arrive "somewhere better"-someplace utopian, like revolution; or safe, like home; or even clarifying, like identity. Instead, she faces the end of her relationships, a family whose...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983697237Author Walter Jackson BateFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Contra Mundum PressPublisher Contra Mundum PressWeight(grams) 135gDimensions(mm)...

Biography is well recognised as a peculiarly British vice. This new anthology is a collection of essays by some of the best biographers now writing in Britain. They tell of the ups and downs of life writing: of problems with families and friends of their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486299365Author T S EliotFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 159g

'You shall have thousands of gold pieces; - thousands of thousands - millions - mountains of gold: where will you keep them?'Two of Ruskin's most powerful essays: 'Traffic' and 'The Roots of Honour'Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for...

In a frank and unpretentious series of letters addressed to a teenage granddaughter, this highly original book teaches us to know and understand the world we live in and its rules, and how to behave in it. In these thirty letters, Alan Macfarlane answers...

NAACP Image Award Finalist for Outstanding Literary WorkFeaturing 117 full-color photos and eight breathtaking essays on a force that fuels Black life all around the globe, this is Humans of New York meets The Black Book"A patchwork quilt of visually...

An eclectic history of human curiosity, a great feast of ideas, and a memoir of a reading life from an internationally celebrated reader and thinker Curiosity has been seen through the ages as the impulse that drives our knowledge forward and the...

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Yves Bonnefoy (1923-2016), a major poet, was equally a seminal essayist and thinker. This companion volume to Yves Bonnefoy: Poems contains what he regarded as his foundational essays, as well as a generous selection from all periods. In his art...

Award-winning author Lorrie Moore has been writing criticism for over thirty years - and her forensically intelligent, witty and engaging essays are collected here for the first time. Whether writing on Titanic, Margaret Atwood or The Wire, her pieces...

For the past twenty years, Eliot Weinberger has been taking the essay far beyond the borders of literary criticism or personal journalism and into the realm of poetry and narrative. Full of stories, yet written in a condensed, imagistic language, his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781593761738Author Donald BarthelmeFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint CounterpointPublisher CounterpointWeight(grams) 369g

With this sixth volume The Hogarth Press completes a major literary undertaking - the publication of the complete essays of Virginia Woolf. In this, the last decade of her life, Woolf wrote distinguished literary essays on Turgenev, Goldsmith, Congreve,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857302564Author James SallisFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint No Exit PressPublisher Oldcastle Books Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375705489Author John DonneFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 132mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780358381709Author TanaisFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 140g

Knitting Yarns explores what is so magical about knitting and how it can inspire joy and help us get through life-changing events. Knitting occupies an important a place in the hearts of a number of writers. Ann Hood has collected twenty-seven original...

More than 20 well-known writers and celebrities share the travel experiences that shaped their personalities and changed their lives. Contributors include Dave Eggers, Richard Ford, Pico Iyer, John Berendt, Alexander McCall Smith and Jane Smiley.About...

The subjects of Salman Rushdie's collection of non-fiction range from The Wizard of Oz, U2, India and Indian writing, the death of Princess Diana, and football, to twentieth-century writers including Angela Carter, Arthur Miller, Edward Said, J. M...

The subjects of Salman Rushdie's collection of non-fiction range from The Wizard of Oz, U2, India and Indian writing, the death of Princess Diana, and football, to twentieth-century writers including Angela Carter, Arthur Miller, Edward Said, J. M...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525434962Author Heather HavrileskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 221gDimensions(mm) 201mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156364751Author Virginia WoolfFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Mariner Books ClassicsPublisher Mariner Books ClassicsWeight(grams)...

An instant New York Times bestseller, I'll Show Myself Out is the eagerly anticipated second essay collection from Jessi Klein, author of the acclaimed debut You'll Grow Out of It.Longlisted for the PEN Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the...

The Ghosts of Birds offers thirty-five essays by Eliot Weinberger: the first section of the book continues his linked serial-essay, An Elemental Thing, which pulls the reader into "a vortex for the entire universe" (Boston Review). Here, Weinberger...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781584351757Author Robert GluckFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Semiotext (E)Publisher AutonomediaDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 27mm

From memoir to journalism, personal essays to cultural criticism, this indispensable anthology brings together works from all genres of creative nonfiction, with pieces by fifty contemporary writers including Cheryl Strayed, David Sedaris, Barbara...

A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2023A Library Journal Recommended Read for 2023A Ms. Magazine Most Anticipated Book of 2023A vibrant collection of personal and lyric essays in conversation with archival objects of Black history and memory.What...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912475841Author Walter BenjaminPage Count 26Imprint ERISPublisher ERIS

In this fourth volume of a projected six, Huxley registers his deep misgivings about the course of history in the late 1930s as the world moved toward a second global war. Many of his essays reflect his continuing interest in the conventions of popular...