Essays

'I suppose that, if this collection has a point, it is the desire of one individual to see the idea of confrontation kept alive' -- Christopher Hitchens, IntroductionChristopher Hitchens is widely recognized as having been one of the liveliest and most...

'Engaging, witty, thoughtful, clever, casual, ebullient, erudite and thoroughly modern' Spectator'A dazzling talent - hilarious, winning and deft' Malcolm Gladwell In Mid-Air is a collection of short essays by the acclaimed writer and speaker, Adam...

By the age of thirty, Weldon Kees (1914-55) was a poet, journalist, musician, painter, photographer, and short story writer living in New York City. Despite a contract for a forthcoming novel, however, he stopped writing fiction, moved to San Francisco,...

ONE OF LIT HUB'S MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2023 * ESQUIRE's August 2023 Book Club Pick"If books are important to you because you're a reader or a writer, then how books are sold should be important to you as well. If it matters to you that your...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781638930662Author Sophie GilbertFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Atlantic EditionsPublisher Atlantic EditionsWeight(grams) 91g

Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in CriticismA leading trans scholar and activist explores cultural representations of gender transition in the modern periodIn Pleasure and Efficacy, Grace Lavery investigates gender transition as it...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for National Book Critics Circle Awards 2011.Book InformationISBN 9780307744500Author Jonathan LethemFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Vintage...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910010273Author Orlando GoughFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint UniformbooksPublisher Uniformbooks

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781900565677Author Dennis DuncanFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Atlas PressPublisher Atlas PressWeight(grams) 428g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995456440Author Alexandra LloydFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint Taylor Institution LibraryPublisher Taylor Institution Library

This anthology presents important early essays that laid the foundation for queer studies of the Bloomsbury Group together with new essays that build upon this foundation to provide ground-breaking work on Bloomsbury figures and cultural achievements. As...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909526464Author Christopher FraylingFormat HardbackPage Count 230Imprint Reel Art PressPublisher Reel Art Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814258767Author Marlena WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)...

Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature'Pamuk is taking the world we thought we knew and making it fresh and alive' New York Times'Wonderfully readable, a joy to dip into.' Joseph O'Connor, Irish Sunday IndependentFrom the internationally bestselling...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for National Book Critics Circle Award (Criticism) 2008.Book InformationISBN 9780262073035Author Vivian GornickFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint MIT...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629631059Author Marge PiercyFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint PM PressPublisher PM PressWeight(grams) 108g

The life and miracles of a pagan holy man.Philostratus' colorful biography of Apollonius of Tyana, recounting the sayings and miracles of a Pythagorean sage, incidentally provoked a long-lasting debate between pagans and Christians. This volume, which...

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Essays on various aspects of the work of the French poet Stephane Mallarme on the centenary of his death (1998).Book InformationISBN 9780838637951Author Robert CohnFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Fairleigh Dickinson University Press,U.S.Publisher...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781513220031Author Francis BaconFormat HardbackPage Count 158Imprint Mint EditionsPublisher Mint Editions

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...

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,...

From the editor in chief of The Atlantic comes a collection of essays examining Donald Trump's corrupted notions of American "heroism" and "cowardice." An Atlantic Edition, featuring long-form journalism by Atlantic writers, drawn from contemporary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916809819Author Agnes CallardFormat PaperbackPage Count 20Imprint ERISPublisher ERIS

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644452028Author Maggie NelsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Graywolf PressPublisher Graywolf PressWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798888300657Author Emma GoldmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint Bibliotech PressPublisher Bibliotech PressWeight(grams) 204g

Now available in paperback! In Our Own Voices is a timely and intellectually stimulating collection of essays by twenty-five culturally diverse librarians who share their experiences in the transition from library school to library work. These librarians...

"L'interrogation n'a pas change a 56 ans: pourquoi ne profite-t-on pas de tout ce qui nous arrive pour changer notre vie?" -Dany Laferriere Le 5 mars 2009, le Centre de litterature canadienne de l'Universite de l'Alberta recevait l'auteur...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798888306246Author Henry David ThoreauFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint Bibliotech PressPublisher Bibliotech PressWeight(grams) 204g

In much of the critical discourse of the seventies, eighties, and nineties, scholars employed suspicion in order to reveal a given text's complicity with various undesirable ideologies and/or psychopathologies. Construed as such, interpretive practice...

Will the library of the future be "bookless"? Will reference librarians disappear? Will information continue to double every few years? These are but some of the issues tackled by a group of curious librarians. Perhaps, like them, you too are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594482823Author Valerie SteikerFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Riverhead Books,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 210gDimensions(mm)...

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...

The long-awaited essay collection from one of the most influential voices in disability activism that detonates a bomb in our collective understanding of care and illness, showing us that sickness is a fact of life.In the wake of the 2014 Ferguson riots,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626401211Author Carribean FragozaFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Angel City Press,U.S.Publisher Angel City Press,U.S.

As a child growing up in New Delhi, Sayantani Dasgupta wanted to go on adventures involving shipwrecks and treasure chests. Her parents wanted her to stay in school instead. She satisfied her curiosity by drawing maps, inventing languages with friends,...

This pioneering set of essays explores the key motifs and themes in the works of the Irish novelist, Deirdre Madden, about the Northern Irish Troubles and their aftermath and changing social values in contemporary Ireland.

In a new home, relationships shift, and ties fray. Bound: A Memoir of Making and Remaking is a collection of essays about sewing and knowing who you are.Each chapter in this sewist's diary charts the crafting of a different garment. From a lining...

Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of the best-loved figures in nineteenth-century American literature. Though he earned his central place in our culture as an essayist and philosopher, since his death his reputation as a poet has grown as well. Known for...