Suppose a Sentence
By: Brian Dillon
3.92
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Suppose a Sentence is a critical and personal reflection on the art of the sentence in literature, …
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1. Swimming Studies
By: Leanne Shapton
3.96
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
"Swimming Studies" is a brilliantly original, meditative memoir that explores the worlds of competi… read more
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- art
- nonfiction
- essays
"The pictures achieve something rarely articulated about the metaphysical state of swimming: The body, immersed, feels amplified, heavier and lighter at the same time. Weightless yet stronger."-Leanne Shapton, Swimming Studies
"Being pool-trained, I'm used to seeing four sides and a bottom. When that clarity is removed I get nervous. I imagine things. Sharks, the slippery sides of large fish, shaggy pieces of sunken frigate…"-Leanne Shapton, Swimming Studies
2. Pond
By: Claire-Louise Bennett
4.33
Format: 287 pages, Hardcover
Feverish and forthright, Pondis an absorbing chronicle of the pitfalls and pleasures of a solitudin… read more
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- irish literature
"If we have lost the knack of living, I thought, it is a safe bet to presume we have forfeited the magic of dying."-Claire-Louise Bennett, Pond
"I only wish you could spend just five minutes beneath my skin and feel what it’s like. Feel the savage swarming magic I feel."-Claire-Louise Bennett, Pond
"I haven't yet discovered what my first language is so for the time being I use English words in order to say things: I expect I will always have to do it that way; regrettably I don't think my first …"-Claire-Louise Bennett, Pond
"Quite often I'm terribly disappointed by how things turn out, but it's usually my own fault for the simple reason that I'm too quick to conclude that things have turned out as fully as it is possible…"-Claire-Louise Bennett, Pond
3. The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington
By: Leonora Carrington , Kathryn Davis , Kathrine Talbot
4.16
Format: 1342 pages, Paperback
Surrealist writer and painter Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) was a master of the macabre, of gorgeo… read more
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- art
4. On Being Blue
By: William H. Gass
4.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
In a philosophical approach to color, Gass explores man's perception of the color blue as well as i… read more
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- art
- nonfiction
- essays
5. The Body Artist
By: Don DeLillo
4.81
Format: 539 pages, Paperback
The Barnes & Noble Review In whatever form Don DeLillo chooses to write, there is simply no other A… read more
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6. The Journalist and the Murderer
By: Janet Malcolm , Ian Jack
3.84
Format: 135 pages,
In The Journalist And The Murderer, Janet Malcolm examines the psychopathology of journalism. She d… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
- writing
7. How Fiction Works
By: James Wood
4.16
Format: 84 pages, Paperback
What makes a story a story? What is style? What's the connection between realism and real life? The… read more
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- nonfiction
- criticism
- writing
- essays
- books about books
- literary criticism
8. Eros the Bittersweet
By: Anne Carson
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
A book about love as seen by the ancients, Erosis Anne Carson's exploration of the concept of "eros… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
9. Memory Theatre
By: Simon Critchley , None
3.59
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
A French philosopher dies during a savage summer heat wave. Boxes carrying his unpublished miscella… read more
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10. Duplex
By: Kathryn Davis
3.81
Format: 263 pages, Hardcover
Mary and Eddie are meant for each other--but love is no guarantee, not in these suburbs. Like all c… read more
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11. The Hatred of Poetry
By: Ben Lerner
3.71
Format: 435 pages,
No art has been denounced as often as poetry. It's even bemoaned by poets: "I, too, dislike it," wr… read more
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12. Counternarratives
By: John Keene
3.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Conjuring slavery and witchcraft, and with bewitching powers all its own, Counternarrativescontinua… read more
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13. These Possible Lives
By: Fleur Jaeggy , None
4.25
Format: 512 pages, ebook
New Directions is proud to present Fleur Jaeggy's strange and mesmerizing essays about the writers … read more
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14. Pnin
By: Vladimir Nabokov , David Lodge
4.00
Format: 120 pages, Hardcover
One of the best-loved of Nabokov's novels, Pninfeatures his funniest and most heart-rending charact… read more
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15. Winter Mythologies and Abbots
By: Pierre Michon , None
4.01
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
Michon's exquisite short narratives transport us to the heart of the Middle Ages as witnesses to th… read more
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16. A Horse at Night: On Writing
By: Amina Cain
4.03
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
A virtuosic meditation on literature and life in the tradition of Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s … read more
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- art
- nonfiction
- essays
- writing
- books about books
- literary criticism
"For me, fiction is a space of plainness and excess."-Amina Cain, A Horse at Night: On Writing
"Female solitude is weighted with a particular power in literature."-Amina Cain, A Horse at Night: On Writing
"I want to leave a chain of images that remain in the reader's mind. I want to write what heightened experience feels like."-Amina Cain, A Horse at Night: On Writing
"Perhaps solitude is a practice as much as an instinct, its pleasures very much contextual. Sometimes being alone is terrible."-Amina Cain, A Horse at Night: On Writing
17. All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess
By: Becca Rothfeld
3.76
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An acclaimed debut author's glorious call to throw off restraint and balance in culture in favor of… read more
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- art
- nonfiction
- essays
- literary criticism
18. Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory
By: Janet Malcolm
3.94
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
“Superb . . . [The] final, splendid, most personal work of [Janet Malcolm’s] long career.” ―Charles… read more
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- art
- nonfiction
- essays
"La autobiografía es un género de nombre errado; la memoria recita solo algunas de sus líneas."-Janet Malcolm, Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory
"Los recuerdos con trama son, por supuesto, los que cometen el pecado original de la autobiografía, lo que le da la vitalidad, si no la razón de ser."-Janet Malcolm, Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory
19. Parade
By: Rachel Cusk
3.70
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
From the exhilarating mind of Rachel Cusk, author of the Outline trilogy, Parade disturbs and defin… read more
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- art
"He knew that [his work] embodied change, and he wasn’t interested in change. He was interested in the fragments that change leaves behind in its storming passage toward the future."-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"Not to be understood is effectively to be silenced, but not understanding can in its turn legitimise that silence, can illuminate one’s own unknowability. Art is the pact of individuals denying socie…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"Sanity and insanity were not opposites but rather were the two faces of inanimate matter, the point at which the existence of consciousness can get no further in breaking down the existence of substa…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
"The impulse to have a child is very often a response to the woman’s own childhood, as though her childhood has left her incomplete, or has taken a part of her that she is driven to find again. The st…"-Rachel Cusk, Parade
20. Tremor
By: Teju Cole
3.69
Format: 229 pages, Hardcover
A powerful, intimate novel that masterfully explores what constitutes a meaningful life in a violen… read more
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"I had not noticed before how every stretch of this route contains personal memories, how the city is like one of those movies shot in a single take from the window of a moving car."-Teju Cole, Tremor
21. Alphabetical Diaries
By: Sheila Heti
4.02
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A thrilling confessional from the award-winning, beloved author of Pure Colour. Sheila Heti kept a… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
- writing
22. The Renunciations: Poems
By: Donika Kelly
4.29
Format: 94 pages, Paperback
An extraordinary collection of endurance and transformation by the award-winning author of Bestiary… read more
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23. The Last Days of Roger Federer: And Other Endings
By: Geoff Dyer
3.19
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An extended meditation on late style and last works from one of our greatest living critics (Kathry… read more
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- art
- nonfiction
- essays
- writing
24. It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over
By: Anne de Marcken
3.82
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Co-winner of the 2022 Novel Prize, this incredible life-after-death novel asks us to consider how m… read more
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"Fasting makes sense of the hunger. The constant internal grasping. The only sensible answer to this is to always withdraw the thing after which I grasp. To subvert. To thwart. To deny. It closes the …"-Anne de Marcken, It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over
25. No Judgment: Essays
By: Lauren Oyler
3.30
Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition
From the national bestselling novelist and essayist, a groundbreaking collection of brand-new piece… read more
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- nonfiction
- books about books
- criticism
- essays
"I’m told I should smoke more weed, which I don’t like, or else “do something nice for yourself,"-Lauren Oyler, No Judgment: Essays
26. Wrong Norma
By: Anne Carson
4.33
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
As with her most recent publications, Wrong Norma is a facsimile edition of the original hand-desig… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
"Last thing: one Sunday evening about a year before all this we were on the telephone, my mother and I; it was just after we sold the house and she’d moved to the facility, where she was allowed a sma…"-Anne Carson, Wrong Norma
27. Essays One
By: Lydia Davis
4.29
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
Best known for her short stories and translations, Davis's also writes nonfiction. In Essays I, Dav… read more
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- art
- nonfiction
- essays
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- literary criticism
"Read the best writers from all different periods; keep your reading of contemporaries in proportion - you do not want a steady diet of contemporary literature. You already belong to your time."-Lydia Davis, Essays One
28. Animal Joy: A Book of Laughter and Resuscitation
By: Nuar Alsadir
3.82
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A Time Must-Read Book of 2022 A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2022 Aster(ix) Journal's 12 Best N… read more
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- essays
29. Suppose a Sentence
By: Brian Dillon
3.92
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Suppose a Sentence is a critical and personal reflection on the art of the sentence in literature, … read more
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- art
- linguistics
- language
- nonfiction
- criticism
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- writing
- irish literature
- books about books
- literary criticism
30. The Sea Cloak and Other Stories
By: Nayrouz Qarmout
3.96
Format: 196 pages, Paperback
The Sea Cloak is a collection of 14 stories by the author, journalist, and women's rights campaigne… read more
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31. The Art of Libromancy: On Selling Books and Reading Books in the Twenty-first Century
By: Josh Cook
3.84
Format: 300 pages, Paperback
"If books are important to you because you're a reader or a writer, then how books are sold should … read more
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- essays
- books about books
