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  • Green World

    A Tragicomic Memoir of Love & Shakespeare

    by Michelle Ephraim ...
    Series series Juniper Prize for Creative Nonfiction
    Shortlisted for the 2026****William Saroyan International Prize for Writing • Shortlisted for the Story Circle Network Gilda Prize • Winner of the Wisconsin Library Association's Literary Award for Nonfiction • Shortlisted for the Rubery Book Award • A 2025 IPPY Awards Silver Medal Winner in Autobiography/Memoir • Winner of the 2025 Friends of American Writers Adult Literature Award • A 2024 Fo... ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Shakespeare, Not Stirred

    Cocktails for Your Everyday Dramas

    by Caroline Bicks, Michelle Ephraim ...
    In Shakespeare, Not Stirred, two professors mix equal parts booze and Bard to help you through your everyday dramas. It’s like having Shakespeare right there in your living room, downing a great drink and putting your crappy day in perspective. So get out your cocktail shaker and lend him your ears.Each original cocktail and hors d’oeuvre recipe connects Shakespeare’s characters to life’s daily ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Reading the Jewish Woman on the Elizabethan Stage

    by Michelle Ephraim ...
    The first book-length examination of Jewish women in Renaissance drama, this study explores fictional representations of the female Jew in academic, private and public stage performances during Queen Elizabeth I's reign; it links lesser-known dramatic adaptations of the biblical Rebecca, Deborah, and Esther with the Jewish daughters made famous by Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare on the ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

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    Green World

    A Tragicomic Memoir of Love & Shakespeare

    by Michelle Ephraim ...
    Narrated by Sharon Freedman ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 25 min

    At twenty-three, Michelle Ephraim was failing at everything. The only child of reclusive Holocaust-survivor parents who were dismayed by her literary studies, she found herself dumped by her boyfriend and bombing out of graduate school. Then, one night, she crashed a Shakespeare recitation party. Loopy from vodka and never having read a single line of Shakespeare, she was transfixed. Shakespeare, ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    From More to Shakespeare

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    "Greenblatt's classic placed the world of Renaissance scholarship in a deep and vigorous dialogue with literary modernity . . . a remarkable work." —Homi BhabhaPulitzer Prize–Winning AuthorRenaissance Self-Fashioning is a study of sixteenth-century life and literature that spawned a new era of scholarly inquiry. Stephen Greenblatt examines the structure of selfhood as evidenced in major literary ... Read more

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  • The Best American Essays 2023

    by Vivian Gornick, Robert Atwan ...
    Series series Best American
    In her introduction to this year’s The Best American Essays, guest editor Vivian Gornick states that her selections “contribute materially to the long and honorable history of the personal essay by way of the value they place on lived experience.” Provocative, daring, and honest at a time when many writers are deliberately silencing themselves in the face of authoritarian and populist censorship ... Read more

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  • The Book of "Job"

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    by Mark Larrimore ...
    Series series Lives of Great Religious Books
    The Book of Job raises stark questions about the nature and meaning of innocent suffering and the relationship of the human to the divine, yet it is also one of the Bible's most obscure and paradoxical books, one that defies interpretation even today. Mark Larrimore provides a panoramic history of this remarkable book, traversing centuries and traditions to examine how Job's trials and his ... Read more

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  • To Name the Bigger Lie

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  • Killing Physicians

    Shakespeare's Blind Heroes and Reformation Saints

    by John J Norton ...
    Killing Physicians: Shakespeare's Blind Heroes and Reformation Saints is intended give its reader a street-level perspective of Shakespeare’s great tragedies and late plays.Diving into the social and theological tensions alive in sixteenth-century London neighborhoods, this book uncovers what may have been Shakespeare’s answer to a world fraught with political and religious controversy. ... Read more

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    Edited by David Remnick, Henry Finder ...
    When Harold Ross founded The New Yorker in 1925, he described it as a “comic weekly.” And although it has become much more than that, it has remained true in its irreverent heart to the founder’s description, publishing the most illustrious literary humorists of the modern era—among them Robert Benchley, Dorothy Parker, Groucho Marx, George S. Kaufman, James Thurber, S. J. Perelman, Peter De Vries ... Read more

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  • The Best American Essays 2015

    Edited by Ariel Levy ...
    Series series The Best American Series
    "22 contributors explore a wide range of experiences" in this "illuminating, invaluable" anthology edited by the author of Female Chauvinist Pigs ( Publishers Weekly).Writing an essay is like catching a wave, posits guest editor Ariel Levy. To catch a wave, you need skill and nerve, not just moving water. The writers featured in this volume are certainly full of nerve, and have crafted a wide ... Read more

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    A Book About How to Read Poems

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    “At once erudite and colloquial” (New Yorker), this book provides an accessible introduction to the joys and challenges of poetryIn Don’t Read Poetry, poet and literary critic Stephanie Burt offers an accessible introduction to the seemingly daunting task of reading, understanding, and appreciating poetry. Burt dispels preconceptions about poetry and explains how poems speak to one another—and how ... Read more

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