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    The Tower and the Ruin: J.R.R. Tolkien's Creation

    Michael DC Drout

    Hardback

    A leading scholar draws on fifty years of reading and studying J.R.R. Tolkien to explain how he created an entire world

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    Loving Sylvia Plath: A Reclamation

    Emily Van Duyne

    Paperback

    A nuanced, passionate exploration of the life and work of one of the most misunderstood writers of the twentieth century

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    Imagination: A Manifesto

    Ruha Benjamin

    Paperback

    In this revelatory work, Ruha Benjamin calls on us to take imagination seriously as a site of struggle and a place of possibility for reshaping the future

  • Fear Less: Poetry in Perilous Times

    Tracy K. Smith

    Hardback

    The Pulitzer Prize–winning poet reveals how poetry is a powerful tool of connection and understanding in a fractured world

  • Literary Theory for Robots: How Computers Learned to Write

    Dennis Yi Tenen

    Paperback

    In the industrial age, automation came for the shoemaker and the seamstress. Today, it has come for the writer, physician, programmer and attorney