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Intimations: Six Essays by Zadie Smith
$12.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
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 ...Show more
The Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories by Jhumpa Lahiri (Editor)
$26.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
'Rich. . . eclectic. . . a feast' Telegraph Jhumpa Lahiri's landmark collection brings together forty writers that reflect over a hundred years of Italy's vibrant and diverse short story tradition, including well known authors such as Italo Calvino, Elsa Morante and Luigi Pirandello, alongside many cap ...Show more
No Document by Anwen Crawford
$26.95 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
No Document is an elegy for a friendship cut short prematurely by death. The memory of this friendship becomes a model for how we might relate to others in sympathy, solidarity and rebellion. At once intimate and expansive, Anwen Crawford's book-length essay explores loss in many forms: disappeared artw ...Show more
On Connection by Kae Tempest
$14.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Series: Faber Social Ser.
Staggering talent Kae Tempest's first work of non-fiction: a hopeful theory of creativity - the power of creative connection to act as the antidote to numbness.The increasingly hyper-individualistic, competitive and exploitative society that we live in has caused a global crisis at the turn of the new d ...Show more
Flock: First Nations Stories Then and Now by Ellen van Neerven ed.
$29.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
This wide-ranging and captivating anthology showcases both the power of First Nations writing and the satisfaction of a good short story. Curated by award-winning author Ellen van Neerven, Flock roams the landscape of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander storytelling, bringing together voices from acro ...Show more
The Hard Crowd: Essays 2000-2020 by Rachel Kushner
$32.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
A wildly original first essay collection from the bestselling, Booker Prize-shortlisted author of The Mars Room In her twenties Rachel Kushner went to Mexico in pursuit of her first love - motorbikes - to compete in the notorious and deadly race, Cabo 1000. As fellow racers died on the roadside, bikes ...Show more
The Time of Our Lives by Robert Dessaix
$26.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Reading Level: Adult
At the height of his powers in this remarkable (and often witty) book, Robert Dessaix addresses these increasingly urgent questions in inimitable prose and comes up with some surprising answers. From Java to Hobart via Berlin, Dessaix invites us to eavesdrop on his intimate, no-nonsense conversations ab ...Show more
Meanjin Vol 80 No 1
$24.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
Australia is the fourth biggest country in the world for QAnon social media content and discussion, and its fans are a wide ranging group, from celebrity chef Pete Evans to federal MP's like George Christensen. Margaret Simons wonders what brings them all together, why ideas like the theories promoted b ...Show more
Inner Workings: Literary Essays 2000 - 2005 by J. M. Coetzee
$19.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
Inner Workings is the second of three collections of literary criticism by J. M. Coetzee, including essays on Musil and Beckett, Bellow and Gordimer. These are concise, accessible introductions to some of the world's greatest writers, by a contemporary master.
Lines to the Horizon: Australian Surf Writing by Jock Serong
$32.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
Tim Winton says, 'Surfing is not just a subculture, it is culture, and here's proof', while Jock Serong says that the collection demonstrates our horizons are unlimited. From Gold Coast surf culture to the relationships of humans to the sea and from surf travel in Mexico to Taj Burrow's final campaign ...Show more
Spilt Milk by Courtney Zoffness
$39.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
What role does a mother play in raising thoughtful, generous children? In her literary debut, internationally award-winning writer Courtney Zoffness considers what we inherit from generations past--biologically, culturally, spiritually--and what we pass on to our children. Spilt Milk is an intimate, bra ...Show more
Ruth Bader Ginsburg: the Last Interview: And Other Conversations by Melville MELVILLE HOUSE (Editor)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Series: The\Last Interview Ser.
The newest entry in the increasingly popular series collects fascinating and in-depth interviews with Bill Moyers, Nina Totenberg, and more, and conversations (with Antonin Scalia and high school students) from throughout the long, ground-breaking career of one of the greatest, most influential, and mos ...Show more