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- "What is literature?" and other essays
- 100 essays I don't have time to write : on umbrellas and sword fights, parades and dogs, fire alarms, children, and theater
- 12 bytes : how we got here, where we might go next
- 1789 : twelve authors explore a year of rebellion, revolution, and change
- 1968 : today's authors explore a year of rebellion, revolution, and change
- 2011 Pushcart prize XXXV : best of the small presses
- 2013 Pushcart prize XXXVII : best of the small presses
- 2015 Pushcart prize XXXIX : best of the small presses
- 2019 Pushcart prize XLIII : best of the small presses
- A Grace Paley reader : stories, essays, and poetry
- A bone to pick : the good and bad news about food, with wisdom, insights, and advice on diets, food safety, GMOs, farming, and more
- A burst of light : and other essays
- A coat of yellow paint : moving through the noise to love the life you live
- A darker wilderness : Black nature writing from soil to stars
- A garden's purpose : cultivating our connection with the natural world
- A guest at the feast : essays
- A history of my brief body
- A history of scars : a memoir
- A house of my own : stories from my life
- A left-handed woman : essays
- A life in light : meditations on impermanence
- A line in the world : a year on the North Sea coast
- A lowcountry heart : reflections on a writing life
- A map is only one story : twenty writers on immigration, family, and the meaning of home
- A measure of belonging : twenty-one writers of color on the new American South
- A new American sculpture, 1914-1945 : Lachaise, Laurent, Nadelman, and Zorach
- A place in the world : finding the meaning of home
- A swim in a pond in the rain : in which four Russians give a master class on writing, reading, and life
- A woman looking at men looking at women : essays on art, sex, and the mind
- A world without why
- Abolition for the people : the movement for a future without policing & prisons
- Abominations : selected essays from a career of courting self-destruction
- About us : essays from the disability series of the New York times
- About us : essays from the disability series of the New York times
- Abundance : nature in recovery
- Afrikan wisdom : new voices talk Black liberation, Buddhism, and beyond
- Afro-Atlantic histories
- After the tall timber : collected nonfiction
- Alberto Giacometti : toward the ultimate figure
- Ali's well that ends well : tales of desperation and a little inspiration
- Alibis : essays on elsewhere
- Aliens : the world's leading scientists on the search for extraterrestrial life
- Alignment matters : the first five years of Katy Says
- All art is propaganda : critical essays
- All the lives I want : essays about my best friends who happen to be famous strangers
- All things aside : (absolutely correct opinions)
- All we can save : truth, courage, and solutions for the climate crisis
- Allies : real talk about showing up, screwing up, and trying again
- American epidemic : reporting from the front lines of the opioid crisis
- American happiness and discontents : the unruly torrent, 2008-2020
- American like me : reflections on life between cultures
- American wildflowers : a literary field guide
- An arrangement of skin : essays
- An editor's burial : journals and journalism from the New Yorker and other magazines
- An outsider's guide to humans : what science taught me about what we do and who we are
- An outsider's guide to humans : what science taught me about what we do and who we are
- And yet-- : essays
- Angels & saints
- Animal joy : a book of laughter and resuscitation
- Animals strike curious poses : essays
- Anni Albers
- Anti-intellectualism in American life ; : The paranoid style in American politics ; Uncollected essays, 1956-1965
- Any other way : how Toronto got queer
- Approval junkie : adventures in caring too much
- Areas of fog
- Arguably : essays
- Ask : building consent culture
- Ask me what's for dinner one more time : inappropriate thoughts on motherhood
- Assorted prose
- Autumn
- Bad feminist : essays
- Bad feminist : essays
- Believe me : how trusting women can change the world
- Between certain death and a possible future : queer writing on growing up with the AIDS crisis
- Between hell and reason : essays from the Resistance newspaper Combat, 1944-1947
- Big white ghetto : dead broke, stone-cold stupid, and high on rage in the dank woolly wilds of the "real America"
- Bigger than bravery : Black resilience and reclamation in a time of pandemic
- Biography of silence : an essay on meditation
- Bit rot : stories + essays
- Black joy : stories of resistance, resilience, and restoration
- Black magic : what Black leaders learned from trauma and triumph
- Black nerd problems
- Black on Black : on our resilience and brilliance in America
- Black reconstruction : an essay toward a history of the part which black folk played in the attempt to reconstruct democracy in America, 1860-1880, & other writings
- Black skinhead : reflections on Blackness and our political future
- Bland fanatics : liberals, race, and empire
- Bloodchild and other stories
- Body language : writers on identity, physicality, and making space for ourselves
- Body talk : 37 voices explore our radical anatomy
- Body work : the radical power of personal narrative
- Boldly go : reflections on a life of awe and wonder
- Bomb shelter : love, time, and other explosives
- Bomb shelter : love, time, and other explosives
- Boomers : the men and women who promised freedom and delivered disaster
- Borealis
- Both flesh and not : essays
- Both flesh and not : essays
- Bradbury speaks : too soon from the cave, too far from the stars
- Breakfast on Mars and 37 other delectable essays
- Breaking bread : essays from New England on food, hunger, and family
- Bring your baggage and don't pack light : essays
- Browsings : a year of reading, collecting, and living with books
- Burn it down : women writing about anger
- Burning questions : essays and occasional pieces 2004 to 2021
- Burning questions : essays and occasional pieces 2004-2021
- But enough about you : essays
- But what if we're wrong? : thinking about the present as if it were the past
- By the book : writers on literature and the literary life from the New York Times Book Review
- Call them by their true names : American crises (and essays)
- Calypso
- Calypso
- Calypso
- Can you tolerate this? : essays
- Carson McCullers : stories, plays & other writings
- Catherine Opie : keeping an eye on the world
- Celeste Holm syndrome : on character actors from Hollywood's golden age
- Choice words : writers on abortion
- Chronicles of a liquid society
- Chuck Klosterman X : a highly specific, defiantly incomplete history of the early 21st century
- Citizen : an American lyric
- Classic Krakauer : essays on wilderness and risk
- Collected essays & memoirs
- Collected essays of the 1960s
- Collected essays on evolution, nature, and the cosmos
- Collected prose : autobiographical writings, true stories, critical essays, prefaces, and collaborations with artists
- Collected stories and other writings
- Color me English : migration and belonging before and after 9/11
- Confessions of a recovering environmentalist and other essays
- Conversations with birds
- Cook, eat, repeat : ingredients, recipes and stories
- Countries that don't exist : selected nonfiction
- Coventry : essays
- Creationists : selected essays, 1993-2006
- Critical mass : four decades of essays, reviews, hand grenades, and hurrahs
- Critics, monsters, fanatics, and other literary essays
- Crossing borders : stories and essays about translation
- Crossing open ground
- Crying in the bathroom : a memoir
- Crying in the bathroom : a memoir
- Crystal clear : reflections on extraordinary talismans for everyday life
- Cuba on the verge : 12 writers on continuity and change in Havana and across the country
- Daemon voices : on stories and storytelling
- Damaged like me : essays on love, harm, and transformation
- Dark matter : a century of speculative fiction from the African diaspora
- Dawn in the dooryard : reflections from the jagged edge of America
- Dear Freedom Writer : stories of hardship and hope from the next generation
- Dear heartbreak : YA authors on the dark side of love
- Dear memory : letters on writing, silence, and grief
- Death by landscape : essays
- Deep Creek : finding hope in the high country
- Devotion
- Dictionary of the undoing
- Dirtbag, Massachusetts : a confessional
- Dirtbag, Massachusetts : a confessional
- Disability visibility : 17 first-person stories for today : adapted for young adults
- Disability visibility : first-person stories from the Twenty-first century
- Discontent and its civilizations : dispatches from Lahore, New York, and London
- Dismantling America : and other controversial essays
- Dispatches from the Gilded Age : a few more thoughts on interesting people, far-flung places, and the joys of Southern comforts
- Dispatches from the race war
- Don't call me princess : essays on girls, women, sex, and life
- Don't let it get you down : essays on race, gender, and the body
- Don't save anything : the uncollected writing of James Salter
- Don't wait up : confessions of a stay-at-work mom
- Double bind : women on ambition
- Dress code : unlocking fashion from the new look to millennial pink
- Dress your family in corduroy and denim
- Earth's wild music : celebrating and defending the songs of the natural world
- Eat cake. Be brave
- Edward Hopper : a fresh look at landscape
- Edward Hopper and the American hotel
- Embrace fearlessly the burning world : essays
- Entertaining race : performing Blackness in America
- Entitled : how male privilege hurts women
- Erosion : essays of undoing
- Essaying the essay
- Essays 1969-1990
- Essays 1993-2017
- Essays After Eighty
- Essays of E.B. White
- Ethics in the real world : 82 brief essays on things that matter
- Everyone you hate is going to die : and other comforting thoughts on family, friends, sex, love, and more things that ruin your life
- Everything beautiful in its time : seasons of love and loss
- Ex Libris
- Excuse me while I disappear : tales of midlife mayhem
- Exile & pride : disability, queerness, and liberation
- F. Scott Fitzgerald : The great Gatsby ; All the sad young men ; & other writings, 1920-1926
- Facing the change : personal encounters with global warming
- Faith Ringgold : American people
- Falling into place : an intimate geography of home
- Fame-ish : my life at the edge of stardom
- Far and away : reporting from the brink of change : seven continents, twenty-five years
- Farewell transmission : (notes from hidden spaces)
- Farther away
- Fasting for Ramadan
- Fathers playing catch with sons : essays on sport, mostly baseball
- Feel free : essays
- Feminasty : the complicated woman's guide to surviving the patriarchy without drinking herself to death
- Fen, bog & swamp : a short history of peatland destruction and its role in the climate crisis
- Festival days
- Field recordings from the inside : essays
- Fight of the century : writers reflect on 100 years of landmark ACLU cases
- Figures in a landscape : people and places : essays: 2001-2016
- First & wildest : the Gila wilderness at 100
- Flash forward : an illustrated guide to possible (and not so possible) tomorrows
- For the Republic : political essays
- Four hundred souls : a community history of African America, 1619-2019
- France in the world : a new global history
- Free women, free men : sex, gender, feminism
- Freedom and the arts : essays on music and literature
- Freedom is a constant struggle : Ferguson, Palestine, and the foundations of a movement
- Full dissidence : notes from an uneven playing field
- Funny girl : funniest. stories. ever.
- Funny weather : art in an emergency
- Garden design master class : 100 lessons from the world's finest designers on the art of the garden
- Gene everlasting : a contrary farmer's thoughts on living forever
- Ghetto Gastro : Black Power kitchen
- Gio Ponti : archi-designer
- Girl gurl grrrl : on womanhood and belonging in the age of Black girl magic
- Girlhood : essays
- Girls can kiss now : essays
- Glimmer of hope : how tragedy sparked a movement
- Good things happen to people you hate : essays
- Goodbye, again : essays, reflections, and illustrations
- Grand : a grandparent's wisdom for a happy life
- Gratitude
- Green card entrepreneur voices : how-to business stories from Minnesota immigrants
- Growing up trans : in our own words
- Guys read : true stories
- Had I known : collected essays
- Happy-go-lucky
- Happy-go-lucky
- Happy-go-lucky
- Having and being had
- Hearth : a global conversation on community, identity, and place
- Hearts of our people : Native women artists
- Higher gossip : essays and criticism
- Homo irrealis : essays
- Hood feminism : notes from the women that a movement forgot
- Hope nation : YA authors share personal moments of inspiration
- Horse girls : recovering, aspiring, and devoted riders redefine the iconic bond
- How I became a tree
- How do we know ourselves? : curiosities and marvels of the human mind
- How far the light reaches : a life in ten sea creatures
- How not to get shot : and other advice from white people
- How to live a good life : a guide to choosing your personal philosophy
- How to make a slave and other essays
- How to raise a feminist son : motherhood, masculinity, and the making of my family
- How to read now : essays
- How to see : looking, talking, and thinking about art
- How to slowly kill yourself and others in America : essays
- How to write an autobiographical novel : essays
- Hugging the shore : essays and criticism
- Human relations and other difficulties
- Human(kind) : how reclaiming human worth and embracing radical kindness will bring us back together
- Hungry heart : adventures in life, love, and writing
- Hungry hearts : essays on courage, desire, and belonging
- I hate myselfie : a collection of essays
- I hate to leave this beautiful place
- I hope we choose love : a trans girl's notes from the end of the world
- I like to watch : arguing my way through the TV revolution
- I might regret this : essays, drawings, vulnerabilities, and other stuff
- I see life through rosé-colored glasses
- I want to be where the normal people are
- I wrote this book because I love you : essays
- I'll show myself out : essays on midlife & motherhood
- I'll show myself out : essays on midlife & motherhood
- I, grape; or the case for fiction : essays
- Idiot : life stories from the creator of Help Helen Smash
- In praise of messy lives : essays
- In search of Stonewall : the riots at 50, the Gay & Lesbian Review at 25 : best essays, 1994-2018
- In short : a collection of brief creative nonfiction
- In the Heights : finding home
- In the land of the cyclops : essays
- In the margins : on the pleasures of reading and writing
- In their lives : great writers on great Beatles songs
- Incidental inventions
- Inciting joy : essays
- Indelible in the hippocampus : writings from the me too movement
- Indigo : arm wrestling, snake saving, and some things in between
- Insane clown president : dispatches from the 2016 circus
- Intimations : six essays
- Inventing the enemy and other occasional writings
- It came from the closet : queer reflections on horror
- It's not about the burqa : Muslim women on faith, feminism, sexuality and race
- Jean Stafford : complete stories & other writings
- Jean-Michel Basquiat : king pleasure
- Joan Didion : the 1960s & 70s : Run river, Slouching towards Bethlehem, Play it as it lays, A book of common prayer, the white album
- Joan Didion : the 1980s & 90s
- Journeys : an American story
- Just us : an American conversation
- Kant's little Prussian head and other reasons why I write : an autobiography in essays
- Keep moving : notes on loss, creativity, and change
- Keeping an eye open : essays on art
- Kingdoms in the air : dispatches from the far away
- Know this : today's most interesting and important scientific ideas, discoveries, and developments
- Known and strange things : essays
- Languages of truth : essays 2003-2020
- Later essays : Under the sign of Saturn ; Aids and its metaphors ; Where the stress falls ; Regarding the pain of others ; At the same time: essays and speeches
- Leaving isn't the hardest thing : essays
- Lee Krasner : living colour
- Lessons from a dark time : and other essays
- Let me be frank : a book about women who dressed like men to do shit they weren't supposed to do
- Let me tell you : new stories, essays, and other writings
- Let me tell you what I mean
- Let's explore diabetes with owls
- Letters to a young farmer : on food, farming, and our future
- Life in the garden
- Life is good : conservation is an age of mass extinction
- Life, I swear : intimate stories from Black women on identity, healing, and self-trust
- Life, death, and other inconvenient truths : a realist's view of the human condition
- Like a boy but not a boy : navigating life, mental health, and parenthood outside the gender binary
- Like streams to the ocean : notes on ego, love, and the things that make us who we are
- Lines of vision : Irish writers on art
- Little labors
- Little weirds
- Little weirds
- Live wire : long-winded short stories
- Live wire : long-winded short stories
- Lives and letters
- Living beyond borders : growing up Mexican in America
- Living in the anthropocene : Earth in the age of humans
- Loitering : new & collected essays
- Lolita in the afterlife : on beauty, risk, and reckoning with the most indelible and shocking novel of the twentieth century
- Long players : writers on the albums that shaped them
- Long time coming : reckoning with race in America
- Look alive out there : essays
- Loss, survive, thrive : bereaved parents share their stories of healing and hope
- Lost in language & sound, or, How I found my way to the arts : essays
- Lost in space : a father's journey there and back again : essays
- Lost in summerland : essays
- Love and other ways of dying : essays
- Love that story : observations from a gorgeously queer life
- Maeve in America : essays by a girl from somewhere else
- Maeve's times : in her own words
- Maeve's times : in her own words
- Magic hours : essays on creators and creation
- Make it scream, make it burn : essays
- Making a scene
- Making love with the land : essays
- Managing expectations : a memoir in essays
- Managing expectations : a memoir in essays
- March was made of yarn : reflections on the Japanese earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown
- Maybe it's me : on being the wrong kind of woman
- Meaty : essays
- Men explain things to me
- Microbes and evolution : the world that Darwin never saw
- Microjoys : finding hope (especially) when life is not okay
- Millennial nuns : reflections on living a spiritual life in a world of social media
- Modern ethics in 77 arguments : a Stone reader
- Modern masters from Latin America : the Pérez Simón collection
- Monsters & myths : surrealism and war in the 1930s and 1940s
- More matter : essays and criticism
- Mother noise
- Mothers, fathers, and others : essays
- Movement matters : essays on: movement science, movement ecology and the nature of movement
- Mrs. de Peyster's parties, : and other lively studies from the New Yorker
- My Southern journey : true stories from the heart of the South
- My body
- My generation : collected nonfiction
- My life : growing up Asian in America
- My life with Bob : flawed heroine keeps book of books, plot ensues
- My moment : 106 women on fighting for themselves
- My own words
- My people : five decades of writing about Black lives
- My seditious heart : collected nonfiction
- My time among the whites : notes from an unfinished education
- Mysteries of the mall : and other essays
- Myth America : historians take on the biggest legends and lies about our past
- Nasty women : feminism, resistance, and revolution in Trump's America
- Nature is a human right : why we're fighting for green in a gray world
- Nature love medicine : essays on wildness and wellness
- Nature matrix : new and selected essays
- Nerd : adventures in fandom from this universe to the multiverse
- New & selected essays
- New Orleans griot : the Tom Dent reader
- New moons : contemporary writing by North American Muslims
- No time to spare : thinking about what matters
- None of my business : P.J. explains money, banking, debt, equity, assets, liabilities, and why he's not rich and neither are you
- Not that bad : dispatches from rape culture
- Notes on grief
- Nothing is lost : selected essays of Ingrid Sischy
- Nothing personal
- Novelist as a vocation
- Now that we're men : a play and true life accounts of boys, sex & power
- Octopus, seahorse, jellyfish
- Of all that ends
- On animals
- On animals
- On browsing
- On compromise : art, politics, and the fate of an American ideal
- On democracy
- On faith : lessons from an American believer
- On fire : the (burning) case for a green new deal
- On flowers : lessons from an accidental florist
- On freedom : four songs of care and constraint
- On lying and politics
- On quality : an inquiry into excellence : unpublished and selected writings
- One day we'll all be dead and none of this will matter
- One long river of song : notes on wonder
- One man's meat
- Ongoingness : the end of a diary
- Our fermented lives : a history : how fermented foods have shaped cultures & communities
- Our stories, our voices : 21 YA authors get real about injustice, empowerment, and growing up female in America
- Out of the sun : on race and storytelling
- Out on a limb : selected writing, 1989-2021
- Patriarchy blues : reflections on manhood
- Pedro and Ricky Come Again : Selected Writing 1988-2020
- Picked-up pieces
- Places I've taken my body : essays
- Please don't sit on my bed in your outside clothes : essays
- Pop song : adventures in art and intimacy
- Pops : fatherhood in pieces
- Possible minds : twenty-five ways of looking at AI
- Preoccupations : selected prose, 1968-1978
- Present over perfect : leaving behind frantic for a simpler, more soulful way of living
- Pretty bitches : on being called crazy, angry, bossy, frumpy, feisty, and all the other words that are used to undermine women
- Probable impossibilities : musings on beginnings and endings
- Prop man : from John Wick to Silver linings playbook, from Boardwalk empire to Parks and recreation
- Pulphead
- Pushcart Prize XXXVIII : best of the small presses, 2014
- Pushcart prize XLII, 2018 : best of the small presses
- Pushcart prize XLIII, 2019 : best of the small presses
- Pushcart prize XLV : best of the small presses 2021
- Pushcart prize XLVI : best of the small presses 2022
- Rachel Whiteread
- Radical hope : letters of love and dissent in dangerous times
- Read dangerously : the subversive power of literature in troubled times
- Relations : an anthology of African and diaspora voices
- Religion and Generation Z : why seventy per cent of young people say they have no religion : a collection of essays by students
- Remake the world : essays, reflections, rebellions
- Return to Moose River : in search of the spirit of the Great North Woods
- Reunion Beach : stories inspired by Dorothea Benton Frank
- Ripped from the headlines! : the shocking true stories behind the movies' most memorable crimes
- Rough ideas : reflections on music and more
- Rude : stop being nice and start being bold
- Rural voices : 15 authors challenge assumptions about small-town America
- Sabers and utopias : visions of Latin America
- Salt and roses : the coastal Maine way of life
- Say it loud! : on race, law, history, and culture
- Science in the soul : selected writings of a passionate rationalist
- Secular Buddhism : imagining the Dharma in an uncertain world
- See what can be done : essays, criticism, and commentary
- Seeing like an artist : what artists perceive in the art of others
- Select essays : Dream children, a revery ; The praise of chimney-sweepers ; Old China ; A chapter on ears ; The two races of men ; and A dissertation upon roast pig
- Self-confidence : a philosophy
- Sentimental economy
- Serious face : essays
- Seven and a half lessons about the brain
- Sewing love : handmade clothes for any body
- Sex and the River Styx
- Sex and the single woman : 24 writers reimagine Helen Gurley Brown's cult classic
- Shakespeare and Company, Paris : a history of the rag & bone shop of the heart
- Shattering the stereotypes : Muslim women speak out
- She memes well
- She's nice though : essays on being bad at being good
- Shrill : notes from a loud woman
- Singular and serial : contemporary monotype and monoprint
- Sister mother husband dog, etc.
- Sister outsider
- Slouching towards Bethlehem : essays
- Small doses
- So sad today : personal essays
- So we can know : writers of color on pregnancy, loss, abortion, and birth
- Some of my best friends : essays on lip service
- Some remarks : essays and other writing
- Somebody with a little hammer
- Something that may shock and discredit you
- Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be : essays
- Somewhere in the unknown world : a collective refugee memoir
- Sorry not sorry
- South and West : from a notebook
- Stakes is high : life after the American dream
- Stand still like the hummingbird
- Starry messenger : cosmic perspectives on civilization
- Stealing : life in America : a collection of essays
- Steep trails
- Still looking : essays on American art
- Still no word from you : notes in the margin
- Stranger faces
- Stranger than kindness
- String theory : David Foster Wallace on tennis
- Summer
- Sunshine state : essays
- Sure, I'll be your Black friend : notes from the other side of the fist bump
- Surrender, white people! : our unconditional terms for peace
- Survival of the thickest : essays
- Surviving autocracy
- Swallowed by a whale : how to survive the writing life
- Sweet spot : an ice cream binge across America
- Table manners : how to behave in the modern world and why bother
- Taking a long look : essays on culture, literature, and feminism in our time
- Taking on the plastics crisis
- Tales of two Americas : stories of inequality in a divided nation
- Talking Zen : reflections on mind, myth, and the magic of life
- Talking as fast as I can : from Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls, and everything in between
- Tamed & untamed : close encounters of the animal kind
- Tell me how it ends : an essay in forty questions
- Terraform : building a better world
- The 1619 Project : a new origin story
- The 1619 Project : a new origin story
- The 2000s made me gay : essays on pop culture
- The 50 funniest American writers : an anthology of humor from Mark Twain to the Onion
- The American Revolution : a world war
- The American crisis : what went wrong, how we recover
- The Anthropocene reviewed : essays on a human-centered planet
- The Anthropocene reviewed : essays on a human-centered planet
- The Aztec treas