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He Held Radical Light
The Art of Faith, the Faith of Art
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Possessed by Memory
The Inward Light of Criticism
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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.
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Collected Schizophrenias
Essays
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Powerful, affecting essays on mental illness, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize and a Whiting Award
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Six Facets Of Light
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Shes a genius, I believe, because she lights up every subject she touches. Hilary Mantel
A Spectator Book of the Year
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Body & Soul
Stories for Skeptics and Seekers
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BODY & SOUL: STORIES FOR SKEPTICS AND SEEKERS is a spiritual journey through experiences that can be liberating but also awkward and sometimes even dangerous, because women are so often excluded from conversations about spirituality.
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Orwell on Truth
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'Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two equals four. If that is granted, all else follows.'
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Essential Goethe
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The Essential Goethe is the most comprehensive and representative one-volume collection of Goethe's writings ever published in English. It provides English-language readers easier access than ever before to the widest range of work by one of the greatest writers in world history.
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Art of Mystery
The Search for Questions
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A sensitive and nuanced exploration of a seldom-discussed subject by an acclaimed novelist
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To The River
A Journey Beneath the Surface
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Over sixty years after Virginia Woolf drowned in the River Ouse, Olivia Laing sets out to walk its banks, from the source all the way to the sea. As she walks, she reflects upon the power of rivers, refracting mythology, science, social history and literature through their waters to shed light on their eternal violence and mystery.
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William Blake and the Age of Aquarius
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A stunningly illustrated look at how Blake's radical vision influenced artists of the Beat generation and 1960s counterculture
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Bookshops
A Cultural History
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Jorge Carrin collects bookshops: from Gotham Book Mart and the Strand Bookstore in New York City to City Lights Bookshop and Green Apple Books in San Francisco and all the bright spots in between (Prairie Lights, Tattered Cover, and countless others).
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Soul at the White Heat
Inspiration, Obsession, and the Writing Life
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A new collection of critical and personal essays on writing, obsession, and inspiration from National Book Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates, now in paperback.
"Why do we write?"
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