I Might Regret This - Essays, Drawings, Vulnerabilities, and Other Stuff by Abbi Jacobson
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Category: Essays
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
Illness as Metaphor & AIDS and its Metaphors by Susan Sontag
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Category: Essays | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"Aids and its Metaphors", the sequel, is obviously written in the light of the Aids crisis. Sontag states that our metaphors for Aids and its effects may be damaging; they suggest an apocalypse in personal and social terms, and therefore threaten not only the victims of the disease but all of society. ...Show more
Inciting Joy: Essays by Ross Gay
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Category: Essays
A collection of gorgeously written and timely pieces in which prize-winning poet and author Ross Gay considers the joy we incite when we care for each other, especially during life’s inevitable hardships. In We Kin he thinks about the garden (especially around August, when the zucchini and tomatoes come ...Show more
Justice and Hope: Essays, Lectures and Other Writings by Raimond Gaita
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Category: Essays
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
Lawfare by Geoffrey Robertson
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Category: Essays
How Russians, the Rich and the Government Try to Prevent Free Speech and How to Stop Them. 'ESSENTIAL' Amal Clooney'AUTHORITATIVE' Sir Geoffrey Bindman KC'IMPORTANT 'Baroness Helena Kennedy KC'COULD HARDLY BE MORE TIMELY' Alan Rusbridger The British tradition of "free speech" is a myth. From the middl ...Show more
Manifesto by Bernardine Evaristo
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Category: Essays | Reading Level: very good
The powerful, urgent memoir and manifesto on never giving up from Booker prize-winning trailblazer, Bernardine Evaristo. Bernardine Evaristo's 2019 Booker win - the first by a Black woman - was a revolutionary moment both for British culture and for her. After three decades as a trailblazing writer, tea ...Show more
Me, Her, Us by Yen-Rong Wong
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Category: Essays
Memoir-essays from an award-winning writer, exploring race, sex, familial expectations, and identity. Raised by strict, religious, Malaysian Chinese parents in Brisbane's southern suburbs, Yen-Rong Wong internalised an idealised image of a Chinese-presenting girl at a young age. As she grew into young ...Show more
Meanjin Vol 81, No 3 by Meanjin Quarterly
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Category: Essays
Meanjin is Australia's leading journal of literature and ideas, now in its 81st year.In the September 2022 edition, you'll read essays by Tony Birch, Kate Holden and Jennifer Mills plus many more. There will be a brace of new short fiction, including pieces written by the winners of the 2022 Peter Carey ...Show more
Mission: Essays, Speeches & Ideas by Noel Pearson
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Category: Essays
Mission traces a life of politics, ideas and inspiring words. Whether he is evoking his early life among the Guugu Yimithirr Aboriginal people at Hope Vale, Queensland, or making an eloquent case for Indigenous recognition, or outlining his vision of a reconciled, multicultural Australia, Noel Pearson c ...Show more
Monsters - A Fan's Dilemma by Claire Dederer
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Category: Essays
***BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK*** 'Funny, lively and convivial... how rare and nourishing this sort of roaming thought is and what a joy to read' MEGAN NOLAN, SUNDAY TIMES 'An exhilarating, shape-shifting exploration of the perilous boundaries between art and life' JENNY OFFILL 'Monsters is extraordina ...Show more
Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma by Claire Dederer
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Category: Essays
'An incredible book, the best work of criticism I have read in a very long time' NICK HORNBY 'An exhilarating, shape-shifting exploration of the perilous boundaries between art and life' JENNY OFFILL A passionate, provocative and blisteringly smart interrogation of how we experience art in the age of #M ...Show more
Mothers, Fathers, and Others: New Essays by Siri Hustvedt
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Category: Essays
Feminist philosophy meets family memoir in a fresh essay collection by Siri Hustvedt, author of the bestselling What I Loved and Booker Prize-longlisted The Blazing World.'A wonderful essayist . . . Her new collection is replete with personal history and recollection, and sparkles with small descriptive ...Show more