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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
Not a Novel : Collected Writings and Reflections by Jenny Erpenbeck
$29.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
A collection of intimate and explosive essays on literature, life, history, politics and place from the award-winning author of Go, Went, Gone and The End of Days. Not a Novel gathers together the best of Jenny Erpenbeck's non-fiction. Drawing from her 25 years of thinking and writing, the book plots a ...Show more
A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster by Rebecca Solnit
$34.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
"The freshest, deepest, most optimistic account of human nature I've come across in years." -Bill McKibben The most startling thing about disasters, according to award-winning author Rebecca Solnit, is not merely that so many people rise to the occasion, but that they do so with joy. hat joy reveals a ...Show more
The Decameron Project: 29 New Stories from the Pandemic by New York Times Magazine
$35.00 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
A stunning collection of new short stories originally commissioned by The New York Times Magazine as the COVID-19 pandemic swept the world, from twenty-nine authors including Margaret Atwood, Tommy Orange, Colm Toibin, Kamilia Shamsie, David Mitchell and more, in a project inspired by Boccaccio's The De ...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
Surfacing by Kathleen Jamie
$22.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
Collective Winner of the 2019 Highland Book PrizeUnder the ravishing light of an Alaskan sky, objects are spilling from the thawing tundra linking a Yup'ik village to its hunter-gatherer past. In the shifting sand dunes of a Scottish shoreline, impressively preserved hearths and homes of Neolithic farme ...Show more
How to Spot a Fascist by Umberto ECO
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
We are here to remember what happened and to declare solemnly that 'they' must never do it again. But who are 'they'? HOW TO SPOT A FASCIST is a selection of three thought-provoking essays on freedom and fascism, censorship and tolerance - including Eco's iconic essay 'Ur-Fascism', which lists the fourt ...Show more
Fire Flood and Plague: Australian Writers Respond to This Extraordinary Year by Sophie Cunningham ed.
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
Writers, scientists, historians, journalists and commentators consider subjects as broad as culture and the arts, working as a doctor, travel, domestic violence, security, immigration, the death of a loved one, geopolitics, distance and zoom to ensure we never forget the experience of this pile-on of a ...Show more
Between the Word and the World by Anna MacDonald
$25.00 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
Is it possible for an experience of literature to be an experience of life? Can we think of words as existing in three dimensions, as things we move through, in much the same way that we move through the world? And how can we account for their effects beyond the page as we carry them with us, in our bod ...Show more
Griffith Review 67: Matters of Trust by Ashley Hay
$27.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Series: Griffith Review Ser.
From our first experiences to our last, institutions structure our world - through education and medicine to politics, justice, civics and religion. But in recent years even the most entrenched of institutions are seemingly on the edge of implosion. Either through deliberate political attacks or as an e ...Show more
On Merit by Paula Matthewson
$14.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
Merit has very little to do with the increasing dominance of men in the modern in the Liberal Party. Yet Liberal women continue to defend it. Until now. On Meritexplores this imbalance, its implications for the party?s future, and how a pair of red shoes may spark a rebellion against the merit myth.