Literary

Featuring witticisms from Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Sense and Sensibility, and Jane Austen’s other writings, this…

The nature of consciousness is fundamental to the Taoist and Ch'an (Zen) Buddhist ideologies that helped…

This book wasn't written for most people - give the title another look - but it's a living "choreopoem" whose story…

Our phallocentric culture often demonizes women, but especially single mothers who dare live a life outside of male…

A collection of short stories set in a dystopian near-future. Titled after the consumer "holiday,"  the stories explore…

A gorgeous, graphic biography of renowned photographer Graciela Iturbide woven together by a talented writer and…

Part fact, part fiction, Mark Twain takes readers on a natural journey from Missouri to Nevage and California to Hawaii.…

There's a typewriter set up for anyone to use in Literati Bookstore in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Every day people sit down…

Learn how to embody the true spirit of the immersion of nature in this collection of writings by naturalist Henry David…

This brief but comprehensive biography of Franz Kafka and summary of many of his works, all illustrated by R. Crumb,…

Where did the occult detective genre get its start? Today, we have such classics as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The…

The renowned wit, humor, and literary excellence of Oscar Wilde, combined with his ruthless persecution as a gay man has…

Death is the one aspect of life we all have in common. And it's waiting for everyone. Yet our practices, beliefs, myths,…

A semi-fictional story of a freewheeling road trip and spiritual quest. Ray Smith and Japhy Ryder, two friends loosely…

They say it's impossible to pick favorite children. But after stewing for a few hours on our long history of titles, I…

Xiosphant is one of the two remaining cities on the colonized planet, January. Humanity is clinging to life on this…

An interview between artist Wendy Fitch and Ophelia Darkly and Jen Scholten who organize the Portland-based feminist…

Kathleen Collins was a filmmaker, poet, writer, activist, and educator, who died young in the 1980s, leaving most of her…

Want to make sure your kid grows up with a love for books, and not just a smartphone addiction? This adorably…

One of Lovecraft's most celebrated works, At the Mountains of Madness follows a group of explorers on an antarctic…

Mitchell S. Jackson writes with nuance and brilliance about learning to survive in one of the whitest cities in…

Imagine knowing what the brain craves and what keeps readers transfixed. The vast majority of writing advice focuses on…

First published in 1956, Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" is a prophetic masterpiece--an epic raging against dehumanizing society…

The third of five new books of unpublished poems from the late, great, Charles Bukowski, considered by many to be…

Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library—a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled…

Celebrated by poetry enthusiasts everywhere for more than two hundred years, William Blake has long been considered a…

George "Tubby" Bowling--middle-aged, insurance salesman, father, husband, and common man--is, shockingly, dissatisfied…

Growing up in Enugu, Nigeria, Kambili and her brother Jaja live an upper-class life, detached from the world outside.…

A reflection on George Orwell’s passionate gardening and the way that his involvement with plants, particularly…