Essays

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681372822Author Brian DillonFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books,...

Courage and outrage inform 13 essays about black womanhood.Searing in its emotional honesty, Womanish is an essay collection by award-winning author Kim McLarin that explores what it means to be a Black woman in today's turbulent times. Writing with...

Essayist, lecturer, and radical pamphleteer, William Hazlitt (1778-1830) was the greatest of English critics and a master of the art of prose. This book is a superb appreciation of the man and his works, at once a revaluation of the aesthetics of...

Postcolonial Borges is the first systematic account of geo-political and postcolonial themes in a range of writings by Borges, from the poetry and essays of the 1920s, through the prose and poetry of the middle years (the 40s, 50s, and 60s), to the...

Jack London, one of the most read and recognized figures in American literature, produced an immense body of work, including 22 novels, 200 short stories, memoirs, newspaper articles, book reviews, essays, and poems. A significant and revealing feature...

After its heyday in the 1970s and 1980s, many wondered whether the law and literature movement would retain vitality. This collection of essays, featuring twenty-two prominent scholars from literature departments as well as law schools, showcases the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385547482Author Margaret AtwoodFormat HardbackPage Count 496Imprint Doubleday & Co Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 828gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789353335304Author Ed ViswanathanFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd.Publisher Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Lambda Literary Award 2005.Book InformationISBN 9780767916035Author David RakoffFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA...

Tolkien and Shakespeare: one a prolific popular dramatist and poet of the Elizabethan era, the other a twentieth-century scholar of Old English and author of a considerably smaller body of work. Though unquestionably very different writers, the two have...

"Decades after immigrating to the States in 1954, [Simic] retains an outsider's perspective: inquisitive, incredulous, amazed by the apparently ordinary-all excellent qualities for an essayist. There's ample warmth and charm here." -New York Times Book...

'No one else casts such a shrewd and gimlet eye on contemporary life.' - William BoydComic, dark and insightful, What Happened? is Hanif Kureishi's new collection of essays and fiction. No topic is too fringe or too mainstream for this insatiable-and...

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 *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788763546881Author Matthew James DriscollFormat HardbackPage Count 550Imprint Museum Tusculanum PressPublisher Museum Tusculanum PressDimensions(mm) 25mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501159015Author Lacy M JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm)...

From the beginning, readers have come to O for help in figuring out who they were meant to be. O's Little Guide to Finding Your True Purpose is a blend of practical advice and real-life stories of trial, error and triumph. Each entry in this engaging and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954536503Author P J CurtisFormat PaperbackPage Count 125Imprint Old Forge BooksPublisher Old Forge Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913606725Author Quillette MagazineFormat PaperbackPage Count 420Imprint Quillettte BooksPublisher Black Spring Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142004937Author Mark KurlanskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 459gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 137mm...

Every Sunday, readers of The New York Times Book Review turn with anticipation to see which novelist, historian, short story writer, or artist will be the subject of the popular By the Book feature. These wide-ranging interviews are conducted by Pamela...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814257807Author Susanne Paola AntonettaFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781773860213Author Christina MyersFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Caitlin PressPublisher Caitlin PressWeight(grams) 342g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524732790Author Joan DidionFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 245gDimensions(mm) 193mm * 122mm *...

Selected writings from a leading critic of modern art, "the best art writer of his generation" (Art Newspaper) Michael Peppiatt, guest curator of the Royal Academy of Arts' 2021 exhibition 'Francis Bacon: Man and Beast', has for more than 50 years...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781955055703Author Rolf EkeusFormat HardbackPage Count 305Imprint Lynne Rienner PublishersPublisher Lynne Rienner PublishersWeight(grams) 316g

A major collection of essays and interviews from an iconic 20th-century philosopher in five volumes, now all available together in paperback. Roland Barthes was a restless, protean thinker. A constant innovator-often as a daring smuggler of ideas from...

This posthumous work brings together articles, interviews, statements, prefaces, manifestos, and speeches dating from 1964 to 1985 (just before Genet's death in 1986). These texts bear witness to the many political causes and groups with which Genet felt...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604862201Author Al BurianFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint PM PressPublisher PM PressWeight(grams) 362g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781571313652Author Aimee NezhukumatathilFormat HardbackPage Count 184Imprint Milkweed EditionsPublisher Milkweed Editions

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780972164429Author H. P. LovecraftFormat PaperbackPage Count 444Imprint Hippocampus PressPublisher Hippocampus PressWeight(grams) 648gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316156110Author David Foster WallaceFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Little Brown and CompanyPublisher Little Brown and CompanyWeight(grams)...

Three Minus One: Parents' Stories of Love and Loss is a collection of intimate, soul-baring stories and artwork by parents who have lost a child to stillbirth, miscarriage, or neonatal death, inspired by the film Return to Zero. ;The loss of a child is...

A literary, historical and philosophical discussion of attitudes to blindness by the sighted, and what the blind `see' Why has there been a persistent fascination by the sighted, including philosophers, poets and the public, in what the blind `see'? Is...

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...

A fascinating history of Irishmen, woven through the clothes they wear. Taking the clothes they wore as a starting point, Paul Galvin skilfully weaves together a collection of stories of Irish men who defined the culture and mood of their time. In...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374103828Author Tom WolfeFormat HardbackPage Count 302Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374103828Author Tom WolfeFormat HardbackPage Count 302Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc

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 9781843916161Author Marcel ProustFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Hesperus Press LtdPublisher Hesperus Press LtdWeight(grams) 160gDimensions(mm) 195mm *...

"Witty, gritty poet and memoirist Kleinzahler" (Publishers Weekly) has gathered the best of sixteen years' worth of essays, remembrances, and reviews in this scabrous and essential collection, setting down his thoughts about great poets and bad poets,...