The Book Company: New Products - Essays

The Inner Experience (Notes on Contemplation)

Wed, 06 May 2026 13:12:45 +0000

Thomas Merton’s groundbreaking last major work—a provocative and pivotal look into contemplation and the true meaning of spirituality

“True contemplation is not a psychological trick but a theological grace."—Thomas Merton

Revised directly before hi..

Price: $22.95

Mujeres elegantes / Elegant Women (Spanish Edition)

Wed, 06 May 2026 08:20:04 +0000

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Price: $21.95

Enviado Especial / Special Correspondent (Spanish Edition)

Wed, 06 May 2026 08:05:56 +0000

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Price: $21.95

Las armas de la ilusión / The Weapons of Illusion (Spanish Edition)

Wed, 06 May 2026 07:37:28 +0000

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Price: $18.95

Alone with a Book (On Reading, Writing, and Looking)

Sun, 03 May 2026 04:47:48 +0000

A luminous exploration of the transformative experience of close reading from “one of the greatest stylists alive” (Ron Charles, The Washington Post)

In this rich and deeply engaging collection of interconnected essays, Tessa Hadley reflects on a lifetime of reading with the c..

Price: $19.00

Mad Men Carousel (The Complete Critical Companion)

Sat, 02 May 2026 13:22:51 +0000

Mad Men Carousel is an episode-by-episode guide to all seven seasons of AMC's Mad Men. This book collects TV and movie critic Matt Zoller Seitz’s celebrated Mad Men recaps—as featured on New York magazine's Vulture blog—for the first time, i..

Price: $27.50

The Edge of the Precipice (Why Read Literature in the Digital Age?)

Sat, 02 May 2026 03:21:04 +0000

Can a case be made for reading literature in the digital age? Does literature still matter in this era of instant information? Is it even possible to advocate for serious, sustained reading with all manner of social media distracting us, fragmenting our concentration, and demanding short, rapid..

Price: $22.95

North American Gaels (Speech, Story, and Song in the Diaspora)

Sat, 02 May 2026 00:56:29 +0000

A mere 150 years ago Scottish Gaelic was the third most widely spoken language in Canada, and Irish was spoken by hundreds of thousands of people in the United States. A new awareness of the large North American Gaelic diaspora, long overlooked by historians, folklorists, and literary scholars,..

Price: $55.00

A Hope Observed (Finding Solace Through Shared Stories of Grief)

Fri, 01 May 2026 04:33:26 +0000

In the midst of overwhelming or lingering grief, sometimes the only comfort is knowing that you’re not alone. This courageously honest, beautifully designed book offers solace through shared stories of loss.

Our grief is our own, as unique as a fingerprint, as fragile a..

Price: $29.99

Apocalypse Baroque (Tales from Ukraine at War)

Fri, 01 May 2026 01:34:36 +0000

A genre-bending anti-memoir from inside Ukraine

In seventeen tales, Sasha Dovzhyk evokes and documents the lives of Ukrainians transformed by Russia’s war. She speaks with everyday citizens, from weavers ma..

Price: $24.95