The Book Company: New Products - Essays

Reading Robinson (Companion Essays to George Augustus Robinson's Friendly Mission)

Sat, 05 Sep 2026 17:23:01 +0000

This book brings together essays from leading Australian and international historians, in an analysis of the monumental Friendly Mission: the Tasmanian Journals and Papers of George Augustus Robinson 1829-1834, edited by NJB Plomley and republished in 2008. Until this book, Friendly Mission has ra..

Price: $34.95

Con Brio (The Life and Works of Len Gasparini)

Sat, 05 Sep 2026 17:07:35 +0000

Con Brio: The Life and Works of Len Gasparini is designed to be as lively, as creative, as forceful yet as subtle as the writer whose poems, stories, and essays it celebrates. Framing this volume are 26 enjoyable remembrances of Len Gasparini, then 26 insightful commentaries by the same ..

Price: $19.95

The Danger to Be Sane (Creativity and the Eccentric Mind)

Fri, 04 Sep 2026 22:43:12 +0000

NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE

MOST ANTICIPATED OF 2026 - New York Times・Publishers Weekly・The Millions

“An ebullient examination of madness, mortality, suicide.”—Chris..

Price: $19.00

Affirming (Letters 1975-1997)

Fri, 04 Sep 2026 07:35:51 +0000

In this final volume, Isaiah Berlin enters a profoundly interesting last phase in his life. He dwells on pluralism of values and cultures, political liberalism, the defense of democracy, and the challenge posed by fundamentalism. But there is also gossip to close friends, reflections on music..
Price: $38.95

Breaking Bad 101 (The Complete Critical Companion)

Wed, 02 Sep 2026 05:57:15 +0000

AMC’s Breaking Bad is among the most beloved, critically acclaimed American television series of our time. Created by Vince Gilligan, the series charts the transformation of high school science teacher Walter White (played by Bryan Cranston) into a cold, calculating meth kingpin. Br..
Price: $27.50

Mad Men Carousel (The Complete Critical Companion)

Wed, 02 Sep 2026 05:48:41 +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

Pulphead (Essays (Expanded Edition))

Mon, 31 Aug 2026 07:46:59 +0000

Named a Best Book of 2011 by The New York Times, Time, The Boston Globe, and Entertainment Weekly

A celebrated, sharp-eyed, uniquely humane tour of America’s cultural landscape—from high to low to lower than low—now with a new introduction and three ..
Price: $21.00

What Will Survive of Us (Collected Essays)

Sat, 29 Aug 2026 01:34:13 +0000

Collected essays from beloved New York Times best-selling author Ron Rash, marking the first book about his life as a writer.
Award-winning novelist and poet Ron Rash shares both previously published and new material in this exciting new collection, including a never-before-publish..
Price: $19.95

Please Don't Kill My Black Son, Please (A Memoir in Essays)

Wed, 26 Aug 2026 10:23:53 +0000
Sprung from Wabuke’s Hairpin viral essay, “Five Moments in the Life of a Black Mother”: a deeply poignant memoir in essays exploring the cultural, historical, and personal trauma of Black motherhood in America.

When Hope Wabuke became a mother, she was thrilled—and yet she..
Price: $32.00

Graphic Devices and the Early Decorated Book

Wed, 26 Aug 2026 05:51:28 +0000

Examinations of the use of diagrams, symbols etc. found as commentary in medieval texts.

In our electronic age, we are accustomed to the use of icons, symbols, graphs, charts, diagrams and visualisations as part of the vocabulary of communication. But this rich ecosystem is far from a moder..
Price: $95.00