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  • After Montaigne

    Contemporary Essayists Cover the Essays

    by Chris Arthur, Barrie Jean Borich, Steven Church, Brian Doyle, Lisa Ferreira, Vivian Gornick, Wayne Koestenbaum, Shannon Lakanen, Desirae Matherly, Maggie Nelson, Jose Orduna, Elena Passarello, Kristen Radtke, Amy Scott, Jerald Walker, Marcia Aldrich, Robert Atwan, Mary Cappello, Danielle Cadena Deulen, E. J. Levy, Phillip Lopate, Bret Lott, Lia Purpura, Nicole Walker, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Lina M. Ferreira, Robin Hemley ...
    Writers of the modern essay can trace their chosen genre all the way back to Michel de Montaigne (1533–92). But save for the recent notable best seller How to Live: A Life of Montaigne by Sarah Bakewell, Montaigne is largely ignored. After Montaigne—a collection of twenty-four new personal essays intended as tribute—aims to correct this collective lapse of memory and introduce modern readers and ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • What Is It Like to be Alive?

    Fourteen Attempts at an Answer

    by Chris Arthur ...
    In What is it Like to be Alive? Fourteen Attempts at an Answer, prize-winning essayist Chris Arthur looks into life's mirror and offers an account of what can be seen in ordinary things. Each of the book's fourteen essays is an exercise in seeing beyond the obvious, and finding hidden depth in the places and things we might otherwise take for granted. Arthur ranges over subjects as various as a ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Hidden Cargoes

    by Chris Arthur ...
    In this collection, prize-winning Irish essayist Chris Arthur ranges over subjects as various as a girl's ear, a vulture's egg, the letters in a Scrabble game, a sprig of witch-hazel, and the chasms of complexity contained in an ordinary moment. Whether he's writing about owls, leaves, a street in his hometown, the symbiotic interrelationships in the stomach of a termite, a souvenir cigarette box ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Hummingbirds Between the Pages

    by Chris Arthur ...
    Series series 21st Century Essays
    In his latest collection, Hummingbirds Between the Pages, prizewinning Irish essayist Chris Arthur muses on subjects ranging from Charles Darwin’s killing of a South American fox to the carnal music sounding in a statue of the Buddha, from how Egyptian seashells contain echoes of World War II to a child’s first encounter with death. Whether he’s looking at skipping stones, old photographs, ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • On the Shoreline of Knowledge

    Irish Wanderings

    by Chris Arthur ...
    Series series Sightline Books
    The carefully crafted, meditative essays in On the Shoreline of Knowledge sometimes start from unlikely objects or thoughts, a pencil or some fragments of commonplace conversation, but they soon lead the reader to consider fundamental themes in human experience. The unexpected circumnavigation of the ordinary unerringly gets to the heart of the matter.Bringing a diverse range of material into play ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

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    Unlocking the Magic of the Everyday

    by Sharon Blackie ...
    Taking as her starting point the inspiration and wisdom that can be derived from myth, fairy tales, and folk culture, Dr. Sharon Blackie offers a set of practical and grounded tools for enchanting our lives and the places we live, so leading to a greater sense of meaning and of belonging to the world.Enchantment. By Dr. Blackie’s definition, a vivid sense of belongingness to a rich and many ... Read more

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  • Vesper Flights

    by Helen Macdonald ...
    T he New York Times–bestselling author of H is for Hawk explores the human relationship to the natural world in this "dazzling" essay collection ( Wall Street Journal).In Vesper Flights, Helen Macdonald brings together a collection of her best loved essays, along with new pieces on topics ranging from nostalgia for a vanishing countryside to the tribulations of farming ostriches to her own private ... Read more

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  • Being a Human

    Adventures in Forty Thousand Years of Consciousness

    by Charles Foster ...
    **NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE ATLANTIC, KIRKUS REVIEWS, AND NEW STATESMANA radically immersive exploration of three pivotal moments in the evolution of human consciousness, asking what kinds of creatures humans were, are, and might yet be**How did humans come to be who we are? In his marvelous, eccentric, and widely lauded book Being a Beast, legal scholar, veterinary surgeon, and ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Turned Out Nice Again

    On Living With the Weather

    by Richard Mabey ...
    In his trademark style, Richard Mabey weaves together science, art and memoirs (including his own) to show the weather's impact on our culture and national psyche. He rambles through the myths of Golden Summers and our persistent state of denial about the winter; the Impressionists' love affair with London smog, seasonal affective disorder (SAD - do we all get it?) and the mysteries of storm ... Read more

    $8.59 USD

  • The Tree

    by John Fowles ...
    The classic meditation on creativity and the natural world"For years I have carried this book. . . with me on travels to reread, ponder, envy. In prose of classic gravity, precision, and delicacy, Fowles addresses matters of final importance." —W. S. Merwin, Los Angeles Times Book Review" The Tree is the fullest and finest exploration I've ever read of how the useless delights to be discovered in ... Read more

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  • Falling Hour

    by Geoffrey D. Morrison ...
    LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 DUBLIN LITERARY AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE ETHEL WILSON FICTION PRIZETHE GLOBE AND MAIL TOP 30 CANADIAN BOOKS TO READ IN 2023CBC BOOKS WORKS OF CANADIAN FICTION TO READ IN THE FIRST HALF OF 2023All talk, no action: The Mezzanine meets Ducks, Newburyport in this meandering and captivating debutIt’s a hot summer night, and Hugh Dalgarno, a 31-yea... ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • My Time in Space

    by Tim Robinson ...
    In an essay from 1996 collection Setting Foot on the Shores of Connemara and Other Essays, Tim Robinson noted that 'we are spatial entities, which is even more basic than being physical entities, subject to the law of gravity'. In this dazzling new series of essays Robinson examines aspects of his own 'time in space', moving from his childhood in Yorkshire, to a deadly moment on a Malayan airstrip ... Read more

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