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Report copyright infringementby Jia Tolentino (Author), Kim Dana Kupperman (Author)"The essay has taught me how to live," writes Jia Tolentino, this year's Best American Essays guest editor. In a time of escalating authoritarianism and disinformation, we turn to artists and writers to make sense of the world around us. The twenty-one authors featured in this collection do not proselytize, nor do they claim to have all the answers. Instead, they teach with vulnerability, raw truths, and open q...

Here in New England: Unforgettable Stories of People, Places, and Memories That Connect Us All.

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Report copyright infringementby Mel Allen (Author) Number of Pages: 320 Dimensions: 0.87 x 8.9 x 5.98 IN Publication Date: September 01, 2025

The Possibility of Tenderness: A Jamaican Memoir of Plants and Dreams

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Report copyright infringementby Jason Allen-Paisant (Author)Finalist for the 2025 Wainwright Prize in Nature Writing"Extraordinary . . . Surprising at every turn and rewarding in ways you never expect."--Marlon James"An extraordinary, necessary book from a brilliant writer. A new song of the earth."--Robert MacfarlaneFrom an exciting new voice in international literature, a profoundly moving memoir that explores the Black experience in the natural world and the transformative power of plants....

The World in Books: A Year of Reading--Wisely

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Report copyright infringementby Kenneth C. Davis (Author)A bestselling historian takes readers on an intellectual and cultural adventure, offering a carefully curated guide to great, short nonfiction works by some of the world's most influential writers--from Plato to Toni Morrison, Ernest Hemingway to bell hooks, and Marcus Aurelius to Joan Didion. A delightful roadmap to a year's worth of reading briefly, plus biographies, fascinating facts, and idea-rich insights into the lives of the thin...

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2025

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Report copyright infringementby Susan Orlean (Author), Jaime Green (Author)"The best science and nature writing--which these stories represent--reminds us of the wide world and our connection to it, and the multitude of ways we make our place in it," writes Susan Orlean in her introduction. This year's collection masterfully guides us through exotic locations and groundbreaking research, leading us to consider complex and utterly fascinating questions about the world. How does it feel to camp...

Campfire Stories: The San Juan Islands: Tales & Travel Companion

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Report copyright infringementby Ilyssa Kyu (Editor), Dave Kyu (Editor)Immerse yourself in a unique blend of literature and lore about the the San Juan Islands Curated story collections explore the rich and diverse legacies of the San Juan Islands Contributors include Rena Priest, Jill McCabe Johnson, Quincy Henry, June Burn, Samuel Green, Anna Odessa Linzer, and more Local recommendations for outdoor exploration, select cultural activities, camping options, gateway towns, and more "How to V...

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Report copyright infringementby Amy Gallo Ryan (Author)You May Feel a Bit of Pressure: Observations from Infertility's Heart-Wrenching Ride tells the maddening, mysterious story of one woman's unexplained infertility through a spectrum of emotions that will be familiar to each of the millions of women fighting their way to motherhood. From Hope to Shame, Courage to Grief, Disappointment to Dread to Uncertainty, this book, with unflinching honesty, explores the many painful, palpable human tru...

The People's Project: Poems, Essays, and Art for Looking Forward

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Report copyright infringementby Saeed Jones (Author), Maggie Smith (Author)A liberatory anthology of twenty-seven writers--a community in book form--charting paths ahead for action and care in the face of political uncertainty, curated by Maggie Smith and Saeed Jones. Inspired by Saeed Jones and Maggie Smith's conversations in the wake of the 2024 election, this is a collection of poems, essays, and visual art on what we--individually and collectively--can hold onto, and what we can work tow...

The Best American Food and Travel Writing 2025

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Report copyright infringementby Bryant Terry (Author), Jaya Saxena (Author)"These stories remind us that food is not just fuel, nor is travel just movement," writes Bryant Terry in his introduction. "They are acts of remembrance, resistance, and connection." The Best American Food and Travel Writing 2025 embodies this wisdom, offering an incredible range of stories that refine and revitalize our relationship to taste, place, and the narratives that we build around them. From tracing the histo...

Witness to Belief: Conversations on Faith and Meaning

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Report copyright infringementby Russell J. Levenson (Author)"An openhearted testament to the power of religious belief in a chaotic world." -Publishers WeeklyFrom a beloved faith leader, a collection of powerful conversations on faith and meaning with twelve public figures who explore the impact of faith in their lives and their success.Through interviews with twelve remarkable and renowned people of various Christian faiths, author Russell J. Levenson, Jr. explores different ways people come...

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Report copyright infringementby Jenny Erpenbeck (Author), Kurt Beals (Translator)The bestselling and award-winning German author Jenny Erpenbeck has gained international praise for her novels including Visitation, Kairos, and Go, Went, Gone. Things that Disappear is an exciting collection of interlinked miniature prose pieces that grapple with the phenomenon of disappearance on scales both large and small. The things that disappear in these pages range from everyday objects such as socks and ...

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Report copyright infringementby Eric Foner (Author)Eric Foner has done more to shape the public and professional understanding of American history than any other scholar. The preeminent historian of the Civil War era, Foner's keynote has been American freedom and the recurring battles over its meanings and boundaries. His award-winning works show that freedom has been a birthright for some and a struggle for others, that rights gained can also be lost, and that they must always be tended with...

I Write to Find Out What I Am Thinking: Collected Nonfiction

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Report copyright infringementby Joan Didion (Author), Griffin Dunne (Introduction by)This second hardcover omnibus edition of Didion's collected nonfiction contains her final four books: Blue Nights, South and West, Let Me Tell You What I Mean, and her bestselling and most famous work, The Year of Magical Thinking. In her essay "Why I Write" (included in this volume), Joan Didion explained what lies behind her iconic nonfiction writing: "I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'...

El Ghourabaa: A Queer and Trans Collection of Oddities

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Report copyright infringementby Samia Marshy (Editor), Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch (Editor)Seeking uncanny, fun, experimental, creepy, sarcastic, playful, vulgar, inventive, sexual, weird, sweet, and evocative works, editors Samia Marshy and Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch set out to collect Arab and Arabophone queer writing. The result is an anthology brimming with gems by emerging and established writers and an homage to the lineages and complexities of queer Arab life. Multi-genre, multi-gen...

Bi All Accounts: An Anthology of Bi+ Voices, Volume 1

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Report copyright infringementby Bailey Merlin (Editor)Bi+ people have always been here. Writing. Creating. Making. And we're done being erased.Bi All Accounts is not a collection; it's a declaration. A chorus of bi+ voices refusing to shrink, contort, or explain themselves to fit someone else's story. Inside, you'll find essays, fiction, poetry, and art that cut to the bone and stitch you back up again. Stories about first crushes and chosen family, about erasure and euphoria, about fighting ...

Letters in Exile: Transnational Journeys of a Harlem Renaissance Writer

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Report copyright infringementby Claude McKay (Author), Brooks E. Hefner (Editor), Gary Edward Holcomb (Editor)A collection of private correspondence from one of the Harlem Renaissance's brightest and most radical voices The Jamaican-born, queer author Claude McKay (1890-1948) was a central figure of the Harlem Renaissance. His 1919 poem "If We Must Die" expressed a revolutionary vision for militant Black protest art, while his novels, including Home to Harlem, Banjo, and Banana Bottom, descr...

Poppy State: A Labyrinth of Plants and a Story of Beginnings

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Report copyright infringementby Myriam Gurba (Author)From the award-winning author of Creep comes a powerful book by a writer at the peak of her powers--at once a love letter to California and a literary tour de force that tells the story of resilience and reclamation through a relationship with plants, memory, myth, and indigenous knowledge. Myriam Gurba has lived in California her entire life, with its plants and soils, forests and ecology, immersing herself in the language of the landscap...

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Report copyright infringementby Katherine Larson (Author)"[Larson's] writing is brilliant tonic even amidst the flames. Especially amidst the flames. I'm grateful for it."--Rick Bass, author of With Every Great BreathFrom celebrated poet and ecologist Katherine Larson, an elegant collection of lyric essays that embraces fractures, contradictions, and the interconnectedness of life on Earth. Raising two children, coping with pandemic isolation, and grappling with the magnitude of the current e...

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Report copyright infringementby Maggie Nelson (Author)Pathemata, Or, The Story of My Mouth is an experiment in interiority written in the pandemic studio. Something of a companion piece to 2009's Bluets, Pathemata merges a pain diary chronicling a decade of jaw pain with dreams and dailies, eventually blurring the lines between embodied, unconscious, and everyday life.In scrupulously distilled prose, Pathemata offers a tragicomic portrait of a particularly unnerving and isolating moment in r...

Nothing Compares to You: What Sinead O'Connor Means to Us

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Report copyright infringementby Sonya Huber (Author), Martha Bayne (Author)An intimate and evocative celebration of the life and legacy of music and political icon Sinéad O'Connor, featuring writers including Neko Case, Sinéad Gleeson, Rayne Fisher-Quann, Porochista Khakpour, and more. More than thirty years ago, Sinéad O'Connor shocked the world by tearing up a photo of Pope John Paul II in an act of protest against the violence perpetrated by the Catholic Church. This single act cemented O'...

Ruptured: Jewish Women in Australia Reflect on Life Post-October 7

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Report copyright infringementby Lee Kofman (Editor), Tamar Paluch (Editor)In this powerful collection of personal essays, thirty-six Australian Jewish women, including Ramona Koval, Dani Valent and Kylie Moore-Gilbert, reveal how their lives were turned upside down in the wake of October 7 attacks.Our hope is that these essays, the opportunities they offer to hear and understand us, can become tools for repairing the rupture between our community and the world around us.The world changed irre...

So What If I'm a Puta: Diaries of Transness, Sex Work, Desire

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Report copyright infringementby Amara Moira (Author), Amanda de Lisio (Editor), Amanda de Lisio (Translator)An incisive, intimate diary of the life of a travesti sex worker in Brazil, with a foreward by Charlotte ShaneSo What If I'm a Puta, originally published on author Amara Moira's popular blog of the same name, consists of 44 crônicas that wryly portray her experiences as a trans sex worker in Brazil. In a brazen, funny, and at times heartbreaking voice, Moira explores the political and p...

Exophony: Voyages Outside the Mother Tongue

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Report copyright infringementby Yoko Tawada (Author), Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda (Translator) I am trying to learn, with my tongue, sounds that are unfamiliar to me. A foreign-sounding word learned out of curiosity is not "imitation" per se. All of these things I learn leave traces that slowly grow to coexist with my accent. And that balancing act goes on changing indefinitely. How perfect that Yoko Tawada's first essay in English dives deep into her lifelong fascination with the possibilities op...

Edge of the World: An Anthology of Queer Travel Writing

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Report copyright infringementby Alden Jones (Editor)An inclusive LGBTQ+ travel anthology, Edge of the World explores what it means to be a queer person moving through the world.These lively essays by luminary writers offer a queer perspective on how people experience other cultures and how other cultures receive queer people. This anthology of essays includes the perspectives of gay, lesbian, bisexual, queer, and trans American authors from multiple ethnic identities, showcasing the travel wr...

McSweeney's Issue 78 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): The Make Believers

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Report copyright infringementby Dave Eggers , Rita Bullwinkel (Editor), Thi Bui (Guest Editor)In McSweeney's 78: The Make Believers (guest edited by Thi Bui and Vu Tran), nine writers of the Vietnamese diaspora write from the eclectic hodgepodge that is their shared imagination of what it means to be "Vietnamese". The work in this issue spans highbrow to lowbrow, proper to naughty, logical to absurd, and painful to funny. This issue will be published on April 30th 2025, on the occasion of the...

All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess

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Report copyright infringementby Becca Rothfeld (Author)A glorious call to throw off restraint and balance in favor of excess, abandon, and disproportion, in essays ranging from such topics as mindfulness, decluttering, David Cronenberg, and consent.In her debut essay collection, "brilliant and stylish" (The Washington Post) critic Becca Rothfeld takes on one of the most sacred cows of our time: the demand that we apply the virtues of equality and democracy to culture and aesthetics. The resul...

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Report copyright infringementby Amy Gerstler (Author)A poet renowned for her "wit and complexity" (Poetry Foundation) explores the endless evolution and malleability of life on earth in her most curious, inventive collection to date Aren't we all shape-shifters? Is any animal, vegetable, or mineral--even a commonplace object--what it seems to be at any given moment? Who isn't juggling constant transformations, conflicting roles, changing loyalties, loves, perceptions, and selves, all while be...

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Report copyright infringementby Chuck Murphree (Author)In Letters to my Mother: A Son's Journey With Grief and Loss, Chuck Murphree captures the final weeks with his dying mother in a collection of heartfelt letters to her. Murphree's memoir is a raw, loving, and profound tribute. An invitation to experience grief in your own way, Letters to my Mother is for those who grieve and those who are curious about the end of life. Number of Pages: 138 Dimensions: 0.3 x 8.5 x...

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Report copyright infringementby Virginia Woolf (Author), Xochitl Gonzalez (Introduction by), Michele Barrett (Editor)A collectible hardcover edition of Virginia Woolf's pioneering work of feminism, "probably the most influential piece of non-fictional writing by a woman in [the twentieth] century" (Hermione Lee), featuring a new introduction by Xochitl Gonzalez, Pulitzer Prize finalist and New York Times bestselling author of Olga Dies Dreaming and Anita de Monte Laughs Last A Penguin Vitae E...

On Book Banning: Or, How the New Censorship Consensus Trivializes Art and Undermines Democracy

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Report copyright infringementby Ira Wells (Author)The freedom to read is under attack.From the destruction of libraries in ancient Rome to today's state-sponsored efforts to suppress LGBTQ+ literature, book bans arise from the impulse toward social control. In a survey of legal cases, literary controversies, and philosophical arguments, Ira Wells illustrates the historical opposition to the freedom to read and argues that today's conservatives and progressives alike are warping our children's...

Cavalier Perspective: Last Essays, 1952-1966

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Report copyright infringementby André Breton (Author), Austin Carder (Translator), Garrett Caples (Introduction by)The final book by the founder of Surrealism, translated into English for the first time."Cavalier Perspective shows us the lion in winter, André Breton near the end of his life, trying to reconcile all the contradictions of his extraordinary career. It is unexpectedly moving to watch him wrestling with his ghosts, aiming for magic, fitting himself uneasily into the new alien land...

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Report copyright infringementby Virginia Woolf (Author), Xochitl Gonzalez (Introduction by), Michele Barrett (Editor)Virginia Woolf's pioneering work of feminism, "probably the most influential piece of non-fictional writing by a woman in [the twentieth] century" (Hermione Lee), featuring a new introduction by Xochitl Gonzalez, Pulitzer Prize finalist and New York Times bestselling author of Olga Dies Dreaming and Anita de Monte Laughs Last A Penguin Classic In October 1928, Virginia Woolf de...