No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference by Greta Thunberg
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Category: Essays & Letters | Series: Penguin Green Ideas
The groundbreaking speeches of Greta Thunberg, the young climate activist who has become the voice of a generation, including her history-making address to the United Nations Everything needs to change. And it has to start today. In August 2018 a fifteen-year-old Swedish girl, Greta Thunberg, decided no ...Show more
Abominations - Selected Essays From a Career of Courting Self-Destruction by Lionel Shriver
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Category: Essays & Letters | Reading Level: very good
A masterful collection from one of the most acclaimed writers of our time. Abominations: Selected essays from a career of courting self-destruction showcases Lionel Shriver's relentlessly sceptical and deeply insightful thoughts on our contemporary era. Uniting essays from the Spectator, New York Times, ...Show more
Translating Myself and Others by Jhumpa Lahiri
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Category: Essays & Letters | Reading Level: near fine
Luminous essays on translation and self-translation by the award-winning writer and literary translator Translating Myself and Others is a collection of candid and disarmingly personal essays by Pulitzer Prize–winning author Jhumpa Lahiri, who reflects on her emerging identity as a translator as well as ...Show more
Unvaxxed: Trust, Truth and the Rise of Vaccine Outrage by Dyani Lewis
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Category: Essays & Letters | Series: The\Crikey Read Ser.
Unvaxxed is a nuanced, timely look at vaccine hesitancy and how uncertainty and misinformation have influenced the Australian experience of the COVID-19 pandemic. Written by award-winning science journalist Dyani Lewis, this is the second book in The Crikey Read series by Crikey and Hardie Grant Books. ...Show more
Griffith Review 77: Real Cool World by Ashley Hay
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Category: Essays & Letters | Series: Griffith Review Ser.
Griffith Review 77: Real Cool World explores Antarctica as both a place and a canvas for imagination. This vast, dry continent drives much of our global weather, a litmus test for change at the world’s extremities and a canary in the coalmine. Stories about this deep south illuminate much of the rest of ...Show more
The Plague: Living death in our times by Jacqueline Rose
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Category: Essays & Letters
A collection of essays imagining a world in which a radical respect for death might exist alongside a fairer distribution of the earth's wealth, by one of our leading thinkers.
Kintsugi by Marie O'Rourke
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Category: Essays & Letters
These essays are a poignant reminder that some things cannot be fixed but can still hold immense beauty and meaning. All her life, Marie O'Rourke has been a Good Girl, a perfectionist, using words to apply golden seams to an imperfect life in an attempt to make something beautiful out of things that are ...Show more
Griffith Review 75: Learning Curves by Ashley Hay (Editor)
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Category: Essays & Letters | Series: Griffith Review Ser.
What can we learn about learning?Australians have one of the highest levels of educational attainment in the world, but not every Australian has access to a world-class education. What represents a 'good’ education in a country with an increasingly segmented school system and a tertiary sector that face ...Show more
My Twentieth Century Evening and Other Small Breakthroughs (The Nobel Lecture) by Kazuo Ishiguro
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Category: Essays & Letters
A generous and hugely insightful biographical sketch, it explores his relationship with his homeland of Japan, reflections on his own novels and an insight into some of his inspirations, from the worlds of writing, music and film. Ending with a rallying call for the ongoing importance of literature in t ...Show more
Why Read by Will Self
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Category: Essays & Letters
From the Booker-shortlisted author of Umbrella, a world-girdling collection of writings inspired by a life lived in and for literature.
Hunter S Thompson - The Last Interview and other conversations by Hunter S Thompson; David Streitfeld (ed.)
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Category: Essays & Letters | Series: The\Last Interview Ser. | Reading Level: good
Hunter S. Thompson was so outside the box, a new word was invented just to define him: Gonzo. He was a journalist who mocked all the rules, a hell-bent fellow who loved to stomp on his own accelerator, the writer every other writer tried to imitate. In these brutally candid and very funny interviews tha ...Show more
Intimations - Six Essays by Zadie Smith
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Category: Essays & Letters | Reading Level: very good
Deeply personal and powerfully moving, a short and timely series of essays on the experience of lockdown, by one of the most clear-sighted and essential writers of our time From the critically acclaimed author of Feel Free, Swing Time, White Teeth and many more 'There will be many books written about th ...Show more