Essays

Before his death from leukemia at the age of 36, Allon White had become known as one of the most important literary and cultural critics of his generation. Carnival, Hysteria, and Writing represents a summation of the work which, as Stuart Hall explains...

53 SHORT ESSAYS FOR BUSY PEOPLE . . . BY 49 AMAZING AUTHORS. Too tired to think? No time to read books? Zibby Owens gets it. Award-winning podcaster ofMoms Don't Have Time to Read Booksand mother of four (ages six to fourteen) compiled fifty-three essays...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374526832Author Derek WalcottFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plWeight(grams)...

In his latest book of essays Karl Miller turns his attention to appreciate certain writers of the English-speaking modern world. A new ruralism has come to notice in this country, and the book is drawn to country lives as they have figured in the...

Roland Barthes, whose centenary falls in 2015, was a restless, protean thinker. A constant innovator, often as a daring smuggler of ideas from one discipline to another, he first gained an audience with his pithy essays on mass culture and then went on...

These United States is a landmark original anthology that includes essays by Sherman Alexie on Washington, Annie Proulx on Wyoming, James Lee Burke on Louisiana, Tony Hillerman on New Mexico, Molly Ivins on Texas, Diane McWhorter on Alabama, Frank Conroy...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781582437453Author Wendell BerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781617206979Author Helen KellerFormat PaperbackPage Count 30Imprint Wilder PublicationsPublisher Wilder PublicationsWeight(grams) 59gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952386701Author Merrill Joan GerberFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Sagging Meniscus PressPublisher Sagging Meniscus PressWeight(grams) 277g

Thomas Mitchell's essays on how to live well were completed in 1913, and reflect a clear mind and a good education, but also confidence about the world and society that were about to be shattered. No doubt some thoughts he expressed would have been...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679734253Author Cynthia OzickFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 312gDimensions(mm) 208mm *...

This collection of articles by Joseph Leech, first published in the Bristol Times in the mid-19 century, took a swipe at contemporary society, particularly the Church and fellow churchgoers. Leech on occasion attacks his contemporaries and invited libel...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374526696Author Edmund WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 219Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316156110Author David Foster WallaceFormat HardbackPage Count 343Imprint Little Brown and CompanyPublisher Little Brown and CompanyWeight(grams) 572g

Coleridge and Contemplation is a multi-disciplinary volume on Samuel Taylor Coleridge, founding poet of British Romanticism, critic, and author of philosophical, political, and theological works. In his philosophical writings, Coleridge developed his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789354893742Author Amitava KumarFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint HarperCollins IndiaPublisher HarperCollins IndiaDimensions(mm) 200mm * 160mm * 20mm

Astra Magazine is the new literary magazine of the moment, a must-read for anyone interested in the most vital contemporary literature from around the world. Astra Magazine connects readers and writers from New York to Mexico City, Lagos to Berlin,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375756498Author Lillian RossFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156920254Author E M ForsterFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 476g

Essays considering what it means to love art, culture, and people in an age of accelerating disaster. This is a book about loving things-books, songs, people-in the shadow of a felt, looming disaster. Through lyrical, funny, heart-wrenching essays,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374527228Author Anne FadimanFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint Farrar Straus GirouxPublisher Farrar Straus GirouxWeight(grams) 159g

A collection of thought-provoking essays spanning thirty-five years of Alison Light's work Provides a historicising collection of essays, by a major critic, exemplifying and opening up feminist cultural politics to new readers Offers a way into a...

Within the recent explosion of creative nonfiction, a new type of form is quietly emerging, what Brenda Miller calls "hermit crab essays." The Shell Game is an anthology of these intriguing essays that borrow their structures from ordinary,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374539061Author Joseph BrodskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910898246Author Gail PirkisFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Slightly Foxed: The Real Reader's QuarterlyPublisher Slightly Foxed: The Real Reader's...

The Aftermath of War brings together essays written in Sartre's most creative period, just after World War II. Sartre's extraordinary range of engagement is manifest, with writings on post-war America, the social impact of war in Europe, contemporary...

These surprisingly un-academic essays are all truely distinctive and full of entertainment. From the living Monopoly game (in an essay by John McPhee) to a set of unattended ghostly footnotes, from the Joan Didion elegy to the Anne Carson fantasia, this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982579442Author Mike O'MaryFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Dream of Things MediaPublisher Dream of Things MediaWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781735558523Author Ann de ForestFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint New Door BooksPublisher New Door BooksWeight(grams) 430gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

"A marvel of brash opinion, contemporary society, politics, and memoir." -Bookforum Honore de Balzac's Treatise on Modern Stimulants is a meditation on five stimulants-tea, sugar, coffee, alcohol and tobacco-by an author very conscious of the fact...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Major Poetry, like its companion prose volume, presents a selection of definitively edited texts drawn chiefly from the multivolume Collected Works. Accompanying each poem is a headnote prepared by Albert von Frank for the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593319079Author Charles FinchFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

Ralph Waldo Emerson's essays and poems on the transcendental movement in the United States became some of the most important literary pieces in American History. In this culmination of essays, Emerson takes the reader through different forms of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812977363Author Kurt VonnegutFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 142gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781859841631Author John SturrockFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Verso BooksPublisher Verso BooksWeight(grams) 244g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307386236Author Orhan PamukFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 405gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...

The author of the phenomenal #1 national bestsellers The Bridges of Madison County and Slow Waltz in Cedar Bend now presents a collection of his reflections on life, love, loss, and longing--a timely treatise on the emotions of the heart, the powers of...

'There is a Turkish saying that one's home is not where one is born, but where one grows full - dogdugun yer degil, doydugun yer.'Mixing the personal and political, Eda Gunaydin's bold and innovative writing explores race, class, gender and violence, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400031245Author Colson WhiteheadFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 170gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679749073Author Philip RothFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 256gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...