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  • Nature and Its Unnatural Relations

    Points of Access

    by Ammon Allred, Eric Bronson, Ruairidh J. Brown, Robert Burch, Jennifer Carmichael, Kaleb Cohen, John Culbert, Samantha C. Harvey, Joshua D. F. Hooke, Tracey Lindberg, Henrik Oxvig, Dag Petersson, Adriel M. Trott, Sergiy Yakovenko, Claire Colebrook ...
    Series series TEXTURES: Philosophy / Literature / Culture
    Consisting of contributions from a host of international scholars (in fields as diverse as literature, architecture, philosophy, and education), Alain Beauclair and Josh Toth’s Nature and Its Unnatural Relations: Points of Access intercedes in ongoing debates about accessing, defining, and respecting a world humans continue to misuse and misunderstand—and that, as a result, is becoming ... Read more

    $142.19 CAD

  • Purgatory Press / After the End

    by John Culbert ...
    Vanished poets, overlooked artists, hapless visionaries: The Purgatory Press opens a tantalizing window on a publisher's catalogue of improbable books. Dark, comical, and startlingly inventive, After the End is a dazzling display of postmodern storytelling. These short fictions showcase the many talents of an emerging author. ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

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  • Recollections of My Nonexistence

    A Memoir

    by Rebecca Solnit ...
    **Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize for BiographyLonglisted for The Orwell Prize for Political WritingAn electric portrait of the artist as a young woman that asks how a writer finds her voice in a society that prefers women to be silent, from the author of Orwell's Roses**In Recollections of My Nonexistence, Rebecca Solnit describes her formation as a writer and as a feminist in 1980s ... Read more

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  • Words Are My Matter

    Writings on Life and Books

    by Ursula K. Le Guin ...
    A collection of essays on life and literature, from one of the most iconic authors and astute critics in contemporary letters.Words Are My Matter is essential reading: a collection of talks, essays, and criticism by Ursula K. Le Guin, a literary legend and unparalleled voice of our social conscience. Here she investigates the depth and breadth of contemporary fiction—including landmark discussions ... Read more

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  • The Situation and the Story

    The Art of Personal Narrative

    by Vivian Gornick ...
    A guide to the art of personal writing, by the author of Fierce Attachments and The End of the Novel of LoveAll narrative writing must pull from the raw material of life a tale that will shape experience, transform event, deliver a bit of wisdom. In a story or a novel the "I" who tells this tale can be, and often is, an unreliable narrator but in nonfiction the reader must always be persuaded that ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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  • Funny Weather

    Art in an Emergency

    by Olivia Laing ...
    “One of the finest writers of the new nonfiction” (Harper’s Bazaar) explores the role of art in our tumultuous modern era.In this remarkable, inspiring collection of essays, acclaimed writer and critic Olivia Laing makes a brilliant case for why art matters, especially in the turbulent political weather of the twenty-first century.Funny Weather brings together a career’s worth of Laing’s writing ... Read more

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  • Elizabeth Costello

    by J.M. Coetzee ...
    Elizabeth Costello is an Australian writer of international renown. Famous principally for an early novel that established her reputation, she has reached the stage where her remaining function is to be venerated and applauded.Her life has become a series of engagements in sterile conference rooms throughout the world - a private consciousness obliged to reveal itself to a curious public: the ... Read more

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  • Nothing If Not Critical

    Essays on Art and Artists

    by Robert Hughes ...
    From Holbein to Hockney, from Norman Rockwell to Pablo Picasso, from sixteenth-century Rome to 1980s SoHo, Robert Hughes looks with love, loathing, warmth, wit and authority at a wide range of art and artists, good, bad, past and present.As art critic for Time magazine, internationally acclaimed for his study of modern art, The Shock of the New, he is perhaps America’s most widely read and admired ... Read more

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  • Known and Strange Things

    Essays

    by Teju Cole ...
    A blazingly intelligent first book of essays from the award-winning author of Open City and Every Day Is for the ThiefNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYTime • The Guardian • Harper's Bazaar • San Francisco Chronicle • The Atlantic • Financial Times • KirkusFinalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay and PEN/Jean Stein Book Award<... ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • The Best American Essays 2020

    Edited by André Aciman ...
    Series series The Best American Series
    A collection of the year's best essays selected by André Aciman, author of the worldwide bestseller Call Me by Your Name."An essay is the child of uncertainty," André Aciman contends in his introduction to The Best American Essays 2020. "The struggle to write what one hopes is entirely true, and the long incubation every piece of writing requires of a writer who is thinking difficult thoughts, ... Read more

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  • Moving Targets: Writing with Intent 1982 - 2004

    by Margaret Atwood ...
    Series series A List
    The most precious treasure of this collection is that it gives us the rich back-story and diverse range of influences on Margaret Atwood's work. From the aunts who encouraged her nascent writing career to the influence of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four on The Handmaid's Tale, we trace the movement of Atwood's fertile and curious mind in action over the years. Atwood's controversial political ... Read more

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