Literary

Travel along with Patti Smith as she draws out her dreamscape in front of you in her year of solitude. Grappling with…

Dive deeper into the lives and work of the world's most awesome women writers. With sections such as "Banned,…

Celebrating 25 women whose influential writing helps deepen our connection to and understanding of the natural world.…

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

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

George Orwell was first and foremost an essayist, producing throughout his life an extraordinary array of short…

In 1936, originally intending merely to report on the Spanish Civil War as a journalist, George Orwell found himself…

Over the course of his career, George Orwell wrote about many things, but no matter what he wrote the goal was to get at…

As a critic, George Orwell cast a wide net. Equally at home discussing Charles Dickens and Charlie Chaplin, he moved…

Sharpen your enjoyment of fiction reading with this entertaining guide to the novel. Learn about the parts that go into…

A smart, charming book of relationship advice drawn from the western literary canon, applied to the modern era of online…

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

Yes, life is brutish and - as evidenced by social media - truly full of shit sometimes. Enter philosophy professor…

Age 39 and lonely in an unfulfilling marriage, literary academic Chris Kraus channels her frustration and creative…

A hypertext memoir, in a series of vignettes, some in the style of a choose-your-own adventure novel that traps you in…

Color the costumes, the drawing rooms, and the characters from your favorite Austen novels: Pride & Prejudice, Emma,…

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

Noted Jane Austen artist Jacqui Oakley brings her beautiful work to the world of tarot with this sublime and whimsical…

In late-1980s rural Ohio, bright but mostly friendless Barry Nadler begins his freshman year of high school with the…

In this collection of photographs and comical poems, author Danny Caine and photographer Tara Wray explore the culture…

In the second half of the 1800s, it was a glorious time to tie up some supplies in a bindlestiff, hit the rails, and…

When we experience brain illness, injury, or abnormalities, the strangest things happen—and help us explore new…

Patterns, instructions, and inspiring photos for bookish cross-stitch projects, from a framed Book Riot motto "Read…

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

In dictionary format, beginning with "adjectives, excessive use of" and carrying us all the way through to "zoological…

George Orwell's dystopian sci fi classic 1984 was banned in Cuba for years...until a new translation suddenly appeared…

A new way to look at love or lack thereof through real time, stream of consciousness. This book dissects human thought…

With all these items in our catalog, it's sometimes hard to find the perfect gift for someone else. Why not take the…

In this hilarious collection of essays, author Mia Mercado explores what it means to be a millenial woman. From gender…

A project six decades in the making, The Art of Loading Brush is a collection of essays, stories, and poetry that…