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For readers of Saidiya Hartman and Jeanette Winterson, Lesbian Love Story is an intimate journey into the archives—uncovering the romances and role models written out of history and what their stories can teach us all about how to loveWhen Amelia...List Price $16.95List Price $16.95
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A celebration of the legacy of the Village Voice bookshop in Paris, founded by Odile Hellier in 1982—a hub of social life and a refuge for artists, writers, and anglophone literary life for over three decades until it closed in 2012.“My entire sense of...List Price $22.95List Price $22.95
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Rediscover the golden age of journalism, when columns were events, through this collection of more than 70 pieces by a master stylist and larger-than-life character on the New York and national scene from JFK to TrumpPlus, on its 50th anniversary,...List Price $40.00List Price $40.00
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In a political moment when social panics over literature are at their peak, Dangerous Fictions is a mind-expanding treatise on the nature of fictional stories as cultural battlegrounds for power.Fictional stories have long held an uncanny power over...List Price $27.00List Price $27.00
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A wrenching, redemptive, and “brilliant coming-of-age story" (New York Times) about the difficulty of growing up in a hazardous home and the glory of finding salvation in geek culture, now in paperback.Surrounded by the failure of systems including his...List Price $18.99List Price $18.99
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Since she was little, Louise has been not quite hearing and not quite deaf―her life with this invisible disability has been one of in-betweenness. After an audiology test shows that almost all her hearing is gone, her doctor suggests getting a cochlear...List Price $17.00List Price $17.00
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The early writings of renowned poet and critical theorist Jackie Wang, drawn from her early zines, indie-lit crit, and prolific early 2000s blog.Compiled as a field guide, travelogue, essay collection, and weather report, Alien Daughters Walk into the...List Price $17.95List Price $17.95
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“Spence-Ash has written the novel in eight points of view, but each character is utterly three-dimensional and distinct. This debut novel captivated me from start to finish."―Julia Quinn, author of the Bridgerton SeriesA sweeping, tenderhearted love...List Price $18.99List Price $18.99
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Finalist for the 1997 National Book Award for Nonfiction Jamaica Kincaid’s brother Devon Drew died of AIDS on January 19, 1996, at the age of thirty-three. Kincaid’s incantatory, poetic, and often shockingly frank recounting of her brother’s life and...List Price $18.00List Price $18.00
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A Pulitzer Prize winner’s intimate portrait of a church, its radical mission, and its riveting crisis.“The revolution I wanted to be part of was in the church.”Americans have been leaving their churches. Some drift away. Some stay home. And some have...List Price $30.00List Price $30.00
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An entertaining tour of Old English words for animals, from the author of The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English, which Neil Gaiman called “a marvelous book”Many of the animals we encounter in everyday life, from pets and farm animals to the wild...List Price $24.95Our Price $11.98List Price $24.95Our Price $11.98
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A concise and practical manual on developing reading, writing, and critical thinking skills in tandemFor college students learning how to write on scholarly subjects, writing and critical thinking go hand in hand. And yet most books on these topics are...List Price $24.95Our Price $13.98List Price $24.95Our Price $13.98
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A captivating portrait of the poet and the scientist who shared an enchanted view of natureEmily Dickinson and Charles Darwin were born at a time when the science of studying the natural world was known as natural philosophy, a pastime for poets,...List Price $32.00Our Price $13.98List Price $32.00Our Price $13.98
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Back in print for the first time in decades, Auden’s National Book Award–winning poetry collection, in a critical edition that introduces it to a new generation of readersThe Shield of Achilles, which won the National Book Award in 1956, may well be W. H...List Price $22.95Our Price $9.98List Price $22.95Our Price $9.98
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A fresh and original introduction to the Odyssey—and how it continues to shape literature, film, art and even the ways we make sense of our livesReading the Odyssey is an introduction to Homer’s masterpiece like no other. It combines a cultural and...List Price $35.00Our Price $23.98List Price $35.00Our Price $23.98
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A great theater critic brings twentieth-century playwright Arthur Miller’s dramatic story to life with bold and revealing new insights“Lahr’s cogent analyses are revelatory. . . . He does not reduce the work to the life, but shows how it explains the...List Price $18.00List Price $18.00
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A powerful exploration of the human capacity for renewal, as seen through Shakespeare and FreudIn this fresh investigation, Stephen Greenblatt and Adam Phillips explore how the second chance has been an essential feature of the literary imagination and a...List Price $28.00List Price $28.00
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A biography of Native Son’s Bigger Thomas that examines his continued relevance in debates over Black men and the violence of racismBigger Thomas, the central figure in Richard Wright’s novel Native Son (1940), eludes easy categorization. A violent and...List Price $26.00List Price $26.00
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BOOKER PRIZE NOMINEE • A NEW YORKER AND NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • GMA BUZZ PICK • A dazzling story of modern Nigeria and two families caught in the riptides of wealth, power, romantic obsession, and political corruption from the celebrated author of...List Price $17.00List Price $17.00
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A manifesto reclaiming the wives and mistresses of literary modernism that inspired a generation of writers and scholars, reissued after more than a decade.I am beginning to realize that taking the self out of our essays is a form of repression. Taking...List Price $17.95Our Price $13.50List Price $17.95Our Price $13.50