Essays

This book brings together a number of John Schad's very best uncollected essays, interleaved with a selection of autobiographical poems and a striking new work that brings together both critical and creative modes of writing. Turns thus plots the...

The years between the collapse of Reconstruction and the end of World War I mark a pivotal moment in African American cultural production. Christened the "Post-Bellum-Pre-Harlem" era by the novelist Charles Chesnutt, these years look back to...

Dr L.M. Singhvi (1931-2007) was an eminent Indian jurist, a distinguished parliamentarian, a celebrated statesman, an able administrator, a brilliant scholar, a prolific writer, and a diplomat par excellence. He was India's second longest-serving high...

This collection brings together eleven interviews with J Hillis Miller from 1987 to 2014 conducted by distinguished scholars and critics from China, England, Ireland, and the United States. The volume offers the readers a rich gallery of representations...

"Humane yet often horrifying, Tell Me How It Ends offers a compelling, intimate look at a continuing crisis-and its ongoing cost in an age of increasing urgency." -Jeremy Garber, Powell's Books"Valeria Luiselli's extended essay on her volunteer work...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873519229Author Bruce Joshua MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Minnesota Historical Society PressPublisher Minnesota Historical Society...

Lit from Within offers creative writers a window into the minds of some of America's most celebrated contemporary authors. Witty, direct, and thought-provoking, these essays offer something to creative writers of all backgrounds and experience. With...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593133194Author Salman RushdieFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 132g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566890502Author Paul MetcalfFormat HardbackPage Count 550Imprint Coffee House PressPublisher Coffee House PressWeight(grams) 1120gDimensions(mm) 241mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593318485Author Joan DidionFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 261g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060927561Author Barbara KingsolverFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Mai Ghoussoub A A A A - artist, writer and co-founder of Saqi A A A A- commented widely on culture, aesthetics and the Middle East, and published many books in English, Arabic and French. Gathered here is a selection of her finest writings A A A A - on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566890625Author Paul MetcalfFormat HardbackPage Count 600Imprint Coffee House PressPublisher Coffee House PressWeight(grams) 1134g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566896955Author Zeke CaligiuriFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Coffee House PressPublisher Coffee House PressWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 208mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374508043Author Flannery O'ConnorFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250619587Author Rachel CuskFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm * 20mm

This is a most unusual book. For several decades Xi Xi has been widely known for her award?winning poetry and fiction. This time, she has chosen to write about the teddy bears she began making in 2005, after treatment for cancer, in order to improve the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525567219Author Albert CamusFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 193gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400079759Author Alane Salierno MasonFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 281gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393538762Author Joseph KellyPage Count 672Imprint W. W. Norton & CompanyPublisher W. W. Norton & Company

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780929701769Author Paul WestPage Count 229Imprint Not AvailPublisher Not Avail

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802313645Author Philip MosleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Dufour EditionsPublisher Dufour EditionsWeight(grams) 227g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788417047689Author Victor JimenezFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint RmPublisher RmWeight(grams) 998g

This new and necessary book—a collection of author profiles, literary journalism and speculative pieces about the Southland's writing and publishing scene—aims to capture the Southern California of here and now. We want to get at the Los Angeles that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999753415Author H L HixFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Etruscan PressPublisher Etruscan PressWeight(grams) 272g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679783343Author Henry David ThoreauFormat PaperbackPage Count 848Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 465gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781917895064Author 5280Format PaperbackPage Count 356Imprint Bower HousePublisher Bower HouseWeight(grams) 590g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524711337Author Philip LevineFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Listening LibraryPublisher Random House USA Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780916366841Author Lead Pencil ClubFormat HardbackPage Count 235Imprint Pushcart PressPublisher Pushcart Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781927366844Author Carla BergmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Brindle and Glass Publishing, LtdPublisher Brindle and Glass Publishing, Ltd

The Tashkent-born Russian-American literary critic, editor, essayist, and journalist Vladislav Davidzon has been covering post-Soviet Ukraine for the past ten years, a tumultuous time for that country and the surrounding world. The 2014 “Revolution of...

Most of these short, savvy essays have appeared in The Forecaster, in Ed's Universal Notebook column (named for the spiral-bound reporter's notebooks that he buys two dozen at a time), or in the Maine Times, where he was a staff writer for a number of...

Bob, living in a farmhouse near the pond, buys a dilapidated camp at the water's edge and finds his way down there almost daily, to swim or ski, depending on the season. His friends discover the allure of the pond, too--summer afternoons of swimming with...

"A vigorous case for the virtues of old-fashioned literary criticism."-New York Times Book Review In his first book, Agitations: Essays on Life and Literature, which was heralded by such diverse critics as Jacques Barzun and Morris Dickstein, Arthur...

In 2016, Lawrence Jackson accepted a new job in Baltimore, searched for schools for his sons, and bought a house. It would all be unremarkable but for the fact that he had grown up in West Baltimore and now found himself teaching at Johns Hopkins, whose...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621455905Author Reader's DigestFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Trusted Media BrandsPublisher Trusted Media BrandsWeight(grams) 178g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789389967326Author Arun Kumar JagatramkaFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Rupa & CoPublisher Rupa & Co

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789390356898Author Sanjaya BaruFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Rupa & CoPublisher Rupa & Co

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781937226930Author Rebecca LawtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Torrey House PressPublisher Torrey House Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789198523690Author Jesper MeijlingFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint Bokforlaget Stolpe ABPublisher Bokforlaget Stolpe ABWeight(grams) 748gDimensions(mm)...