Literature & Essays

Picking up where the widely praised Bookshops: A Readers History left off, Against Amazon explores the increasing pressures of Amazon and other new technologies on bookshops and libraries.

It is time to reevaluate the merits of the inconspicuous life, to search out some antidote to continuous exposure, and to reconsider the value of going unseen, undetected, or overlooked in this new world. Might invisibility be regarded not simply as refuge, but as a condition with its own meaning and power?

A playful, deeply moving book of spiritual essays-for the spiritual and non-spiritual alike-that excavate the rich seams of examined life and point to the miracles that surround us.

A moving meditation on memory, oblivion, and eternity by one of our most celebrated poets

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FromThe New Yorkersbeloved cultural critic comes a bold, unflinching collection of essays about self-deception, examining everything from scammer culture to reality television.Esquire

In arguably his most personal and lasting book, America's most daringly original and controversial critic gives us brief, luminous readings of more than eighty texts by canonical authors-- texts he has had by heart since childhood.

Powerful, affecting essays on mental illness, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize and a Whiting Award