Sneaky Little Revolutions: Selected essays of Charmian Clift by Charmian Clift
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Category: Essays
‘I know it’s a daring suggestion, but I’ll make it anyway.’ Charmian Clift was a writer ahead of her time. Lyrical and fearless, her essays seamlessly the personal and the political. In 1964, Charmian Clift and her husband George Johnston returned to Australia after living and writing for many years i ...Show more
Talking About a Revolution by Yassmin Abdel-Magied
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Category: Essays
With her trademark optimism, sass, boldness and search for answers, across a collection of new and revisited essays, Yassmin Abdel-Magied explores resistance, transformation, and revolution. Yassmin Abdel-Magied started out a dynamic, optimistic, naive, youthful grass-roots organiser and oil rig worker ...Show more
The Best American Essays 2022 by Robert Atwan
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Category: Essays | Series: Best American Ser.
A collection of the year's best essays, selected by award-winning writer Alexander Chee. Alexander Chee, an essayist of "virtuosity and power" (Washington Post), selects twenty essays out of thousands that represent the best examples of the form published the previous year.
The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Category: Essays
The number one New York Times bestselling author of Between the World and Me travels the world to explore how the stories we tell - and the ones we don't - shape our realities Coates originally set off to write a book about writing, in the tradition of Orwell's classic Politics and the English Langua ...Show more
The Night Parade: A Speculative Memoir by Jami Nakamura Lin
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Category: Essays
In the groundbreaking tradition of In the Dream House and The Collected Schizophrenias, a gorgeously illustrated lyrical memoir that draws upon the Japanese myth of the Hyakki Yagyo - the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons - to shift the cultural narrative around mental illness, grief, and remembrance. ...Show more
The Noble Hustle - Poker, Beef Jerky and Death by Colson Whitehead
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Category: Essays
From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys * "Whitehead proves a brilliant sociologist of the poker world." --The Boston Globe In 2011, Grantland magazine gave bestselling novelist Colson Whitehead $10,000 to play at the World Series of Poker in Las V ...Show more
The Penalty Is Death: State Power, Law, and Justice by Barry Jones ed
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Category: Essays
An updated edition of the classic study of capital punishment originally published 50 years ago, with a new introduction by Barry Jones.The Penalty is Death was first published in 1968, in the aftermath of the hanging of Ronald Ryan in Victoria - the last man executed in Australia. At the time, capital ...Show more
The Position of Spoons: And other intimacies by Deborah Levy
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Category: Essays
From twice Booker-shortlisted author Deborah Levy, a moving and revelatory collection exploring the muses that have shaped her life and work as a writer In The Position of Spoons, Deborah Levy invites the reader into the interiors of her world, sharing her most intimate thoughts and experiences, as she ...Show more
The Things We Live With: Essays on uncertainty by Gemma Nisbet
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Category: Essays
A meditation on the burden and joy of inheritance, and the strange power of the objects and keepsakes that connect us 'This is how I became interested in things. In their strange pull and power; in the ways they hold on to us and we to them.' After her father dies of cancer, Gemma Nisbet is inundated ...Show more
The Thinking Heart by David Grossman
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Category: Essays
A hundred and fifty years of conflict. What does that do to a person's soul, to the spirit of a nation? To both the occupied and the occupier?International Booker Prize-winning Israeli novelist David Grossman has spent decades campaigning for peace in Israel and Palestine. But after October 7th 2023, a ...Show more
Thoughts from the Ice-Drinker's Studio - Essays on China and the World by Peter Zarrow (Editor); Liang Qichao
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Category: Essays
'China's first iconic modern intellectual. His lucid and prolific writings, touching on all major concerns in his own time and anticipating many in the future, inspired several generations of thinkers' Pankaj Mishra'A country does not become corrupt and weak overnight. Rather, we are now reaping the evi ...Show more
Too Much of Life - Complete Chronicles by Clarice Lispector; Margaret Jull Costa (Translator); Robin Patterson (Translator)
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Category: Essays
A TLS Book of the Year This exhilarating collection of non-fiction sees one of the greatest twentieth-century writers meditating on the moments that make up a life 'How did I so unwittingly transform the joy of living into the great luxury of being alive?' Between 1967 and 1977, the internationally reno ...Show more