Ukraine 22: Ukrainian Writers Respond to War by Mark Andryczyk
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Category: Essays
A selection of Ukraine's leading writers convey the reality of life within Ukraine during the first year of the invasion. On 24 February 2022, the lives of Ukrainians were devastatingly altered. Since that day, many of Ukraine's writers have attempted to fathom what is happening to them and to their co ...Show more
Wandering with Intent: essays by Kim Mahood
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Category: Essays
To essay means to try, to endeavour, to attempt -- and to risk failure. For Kim Mahood, it is both a form of writing and an approach to life. In these finely observed and probing essays, award-winning artist and writer Kim Mahood invites us to accompany her on the road and into the remote places of Aust ...Show more
We Uyghurs Have No Say: An Imprisoned Writer Speaks by Ilham Tohti
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Category: Essays
In Xinjiang, the large northwest region of China, the government has imprisoned more than a million Uyghurs in re-education camps. One of the incarcerated--whose sentence, unlike most others, has no end date--is Ilham Tohti, an intellectual and economist, a prolific writer, and formerly the host of a we ...Show more
Who Will Pay Reparations on My Soul? - Essays by Jesse McCarthy
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Category: Essays
Ranging from Ta-Nehisi Coates's case for reparations to Toni Morrison's revolutionary humanism to D'Angelo's simmering blend of R&B and racial justice, Jesse McCarthy's bracing essays investigate with virtuosic intensity the art, music, literature, and political stances that have defined the twenty- ...Show more
Why Read: Selected Writings, 2001 - 2021 by Will Self
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Category: Essays
From the Booker-shortlisted author of Umbrella, a world-girdling collection of writings inspired by a life lived in and for literature. From one of the most unusual and distinctive writers working today, dubbed "the most daring and delightful novelist of his generation" by the Guardian, Will Self's Why ...Show more
Why We Read by Various
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Category: Essays
Why read non-fiction? Is it just to find things out? Or is it for pleasure, challenge, adventure, meaning? Here, in seventy new pieces, some of the most original writers and thinkers of our time give their answers.From Hilton Als on reading as writing's dearest companion to Nicci Gerrard on reading for ...Show more
Words are Eagles by Gregory Day
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Category: Essays
Exquisite and challenging essays on the wonders of the natural world and the cultural complexities of writing landscape in AustraliaA collection of beautiful and moving essays on the wonder of the natural world and the cultural complexities of writing landscape in AustraliaWords are Eagles collects in o ...Show more
Words to Sing the World Alive: Celebrating First Nations Languages by Jasmin McGaughey
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Category: Essays
An exquisite celebration of First Nations languages from a selection of Australia's finest Indigenous writers, all wrapped up in a handsome hardback that's perfect for Christmas gift giving. Words to Sing the World Alive celebrates First Nations languages from across the continent. Forty First Nation wr ...Show more
You Don't Know Us Negroes And Other Essays by Zora Neale Hurston
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Category: Essays
'One of the greatest writers of our time.' Toni Morrison Introduction by New York Times bestselling author Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Genevieve West Spanning more than 35 years of work, the first comprehensive collection of essays, criticism, and articles by the legendary author of the Harlem Renaiss ...Show more