Justice and Hope: Essays, Lectures and Other Writings by Raimond Gaita
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Category: Essays & Letters
The collected writings of Raimond Gaita 'From where will we draw the moral energy to stay true to justice?' For more than three decades the incomparable voice of Raimond Gaita has been summoning us to new conversations that deepen our understanding of what matters most to human life and awaken the sen ...Show more
Essays by George Orwell
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Category: Essays & Letters | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
These essays, reviews and articles illuminate the life and work of one of the most individual writers of this century - a man who created a unique literary manner from the process of thinking aloud and who elevated political writing to an art.
Quaterly Essay 9781863954051White Fella Jump Up by Germaine Greer; Peter Craven (Editor)
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Category: Essays & Letters | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
In the thirdQuarterly Essayof 2003, Germaine Greer suggests that embracing Aboriginality is the only way Australia can fully imagine itself as a nation. In a wide-ranging essay she looks at the interdependence of black and white and suggests not how the Aborigine question may be settled but how a sense ...Show more
I Might Regret This - Essays, Drawings, Vulnerabilities, and Other Stuff by Abbi Jacobson
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Category: Essays & Letters
From the co-creator and co-star of the hit series Broad City, a hilarious and poignant collection about love, loss, work, comedy, and figuring out who you really are when you thought you already knew.When Abbi Jacobson announced to friends and acquaintances that she planned to drive across the country a ...Show more
Lunch with the FT: 52 Classic Interviews by Lionel Barber
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Category: Essays & Letters
From the very first mouthful, 'Lunch with the FT' was destined to become a permanent fixture in the Financial Times. One thousand lunches later, the FT's weekly interview has become an institution. From film stars to politicians, tycoons to writers, dissidents to lifestyle gurus, the list reads like an ...Show more
The Collected Works of Jo Ann Beard by Jo Ann Beard
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Category: Essays & Letters
'Brilliant, like nobody else' Elizabeth McCracken'Beard's curiosity and amazement are contagious' Financial TimesWeaving a complex tapestry drawn from interviews, anecdotes, moments from Beard's own life, and sheer imagination, these extraordinary pieces embody the hospitality of spectacular writing: th ...Show more
Girls Can Kiss Now: Essays by Jill Gutowitz
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Category: Essays & Letters
Perfect for fans of Samantha Irby and Trick Mirror, a funny, whip-smart collection of personal essays exploring the intersection of queerness, relationships, pop culture, the internet, and identity, introducing one of the most undeniably original new voices today. Jill Gutowitz's life -- for better and ...Show more
Food Rules: An Eater's Manual (Penguin Green Ideas series) by Michael Pollan
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Category: Essays & Letters | Series: Penguin Green Ideas
Eat food. Mostly plants. Not too much. Using those seven words as his guide, Michael Pollan offers this indispensable handbook for anyone concerned about health and food. Simple, sensible and easy to use, Food Rules is a set of memorable adages or 'personal policies' for eating wisely, gathered from a w ...Show more
Rape Culture (In the National Interest) by Louise Newman
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Category: Essays & Letters | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
The recent revelations and allegations of sexual harassment and assault in the Australian Parliament have prompted furious responses. Political leaders have attempted to limit the damage by referring to the lack of criminal charges, resisting a discussion of entrenched misogyny.Advocates for survivors o ...Show more
All the Lives We Ever Lived by Katharine Smyth
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Category: Essays & Letters
A wise, moving debut about the pain of losing a parent and the power of literature to light our way through it.
The Unreality of Memory: Notes on Life in the Pre-Apocalypse by Elisa Gabbert
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Category: Essays & Letters
A literary guide to digital anxiety, The Unreality of Memory collects thought-provoking and playful essays on the Internet age's media-saturated disaster coverage and our addiction to viewing and discussing the world's ills. 'A work of sheer brilliance, beauty and bravery' - Andrew Sean Greer, author of ...Show more
Booze Territory Short Black 6 by Anna Krien
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Category: Essays & Letters | Series: Short Blacks
On a Tuesday morning, I make my way to the Gap View Hotel for a drinking session starting at 10 a.m. I'm told this is one of Alice Springs' three notorious 'animal bars' ... As I wander around, a Sudanese security guard approaches me, his face concerned. Am I lost? he wants to know. In a way, I am. I do ...Show more