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Literary

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NEW YORK REVIEW COMICS

The Green Hand And Other St...

$22.95

Nicole Claveloux s short stories originally published in the late 1970s and never before collected in English are among the most beautiful comics ever drawn: whimsical, intoxicating, with the freshness and splendor of dreams. In hallucinatory color or elegant black-and-white, she brings us ...

Dutton

Darling Girl: A Novel of Pe...

$26.00

In this beautiful, grounded, and darkly magical modern-day reimagining ofJ. M. Barrie’s classic, to save her daughter's life one woman must take on the infamous Peter Pan—who is not the innocent adventurer the fairy tales make him out to be . . .Life is looking up for Holly Darling, granddaughter...

Catapult

The Lonely Stories: 22 Cele...

$16.95

A collection of essays about the joys and struggles of being alone by 22 literary writers including: Lev Grossman, Jhumpa Lahiri, Lena Dunham, Jesmyn Ward, Yiyun Li, and Anthony DoerrIf you’re feeling lonely or if you’ve ever felt unseen, if you’re emboldened by solitude or secretly longing for i...

Metropolitan Books

Rouge Street: Three Novellas

$26.99

NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2022 BY LITERARY HUB, BUSTLE, AND THE MILLIONSIntroduced by Madeleine Thien, author of the Booker finalist novel Do Not Say We Have NothingFrom one of the most highly celebrated young Chinese writers, three dazzling novellas of Northeast China, mixing realism, mys...

Drawn & Quarterly

Lets Not Talk Anymore Softc...

$24.95

Let's Not Talk Anymore weaves together five generations of women from Weng Pixin's family, each at age 15. Her lineage is full of breakages. She extends the line by envisioning a fictional future daughter, Rita, who questions her family's legacy. While spanning 100 years, Pixin moves back and for...

SIMON & SCHUSTER

Gathering Blossoms Under Fi...

$32.50

From National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize–winning author Alice Walker and edited by critic and writer Valerie Boyd, comes an unprecedented compilation of Walker’s fifty years of journals drawing an intimate portrait of her development over five decades as an artist, human rights and women’s act...

Gallery 13

Ten Days in a Mad-House: A ...

$19.99

Beautifully adapted and rendered through piercing illustrations by acclaimed creators Brad Ricca and Courtney Sieh, Nellie Bly's complete, true-to-life 19th-century investigation of Blackwell Asylum captures a groundbreaking moment in history and reveals a haunting and timely glimpse at the start...

Harper Wave

Cassandra Speaks: When Wome...

$17.99

What story would Eve have told about picking the apple? Why is Pandora blamed for opening the box? And what about the fate of Cassandra who was blessed with knowing the future but cursed so that no one believed her? What if women had been the storytellers? Elizabeth Lesser believes that if women...

Dark Horse

Ham-Let Shakespearean Mash-...

$10.99

The eponymous Pig Prince himself returns home from college to find that his uncle Claude betrayed and murdered his father to seize the throne! But this familiar fable veers into the zany and adventurous when Ham-let calls upon his best friend Horatio and a troupe of rowdy, self-centered actors to...

Drawn & Quarterly

Mr Colostomy (Mature)

$24.95

Mr. Colostomy is a surreal comedy about a horse detective, a manifestation of a searching consciousness, a marginally employable horse detective who sleeps outside, standing up. The surreal comedy of Mr. Colostomy is enhanced by Matthew Thurber's process of creating the comic through parapraxis, ...

Drawn & Quarterly

Time Zone J (Mature)

$29.95

Time Zone J is Julie Doucet's first inked comic since famously quitting in the nineties after an exhausting career in an industry that, at the time, made little room for women. Based on diary entries from the whirlwind romance, the passion and high emotions of youth-before you know the limits of ...

Tilbury House Publishers

I Begin with Spring: The Li...

$18.95

One of Kirkus' Most Anticipated Children's Book of 2022 "A must read." - Elizabeth Bird, A Fuse 8 Production Kirkus starred review: A marvelous life survey of a perennially relevant historical figure. Formatted like a nature notebook, this exploration of seasonal changes in Thoreau’s day is also...

Dey Street Books

Read Dangerously: The Subve...

$26.99

The New York Times bestselling author of Reading Lolita in Tehran returns with a guide to the power of literature in turbulent times, arming readers with a resistance reading list, ranging from James Baldwin to Zora Neale Hurston to Margaret Atwood. "[A] stunning look at the power of reading. .....

Little Brown Books for Young Readers

Anne of West Philly: A Mode...

$12.99

Anne of Green Gables with a twist: in this follow-up to Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy and The Secret Garden on 81st Street, this full-color graphic novel moves Anne Shirley to modern-day West Philadelphia, where where she finds new friends, new rivals, and a new family.When Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert ...

Fantagraphics Books

Headland (Mature)

$24.99

Following a stroke, 95-year-old Ruth wakes up in a cold, unfamiliar hospital. To escape her grim surroundings, she retreats into a wilderness within her mind. In this interior world she befriends a tortoise who accompanies her on a journey into the unknown. As the days pass, Ruth's hold on the ma...