The Best American Short Stories 2023 by Min Jin Lee; Heidi Pitlor
$36.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Series: Best American Ser. | Reading Level: very good
"Without stories, we cannot live well," shares guest editor Min Jin Lee, describing how storytelling affects and nurtures readers. The Best American Short Stories 2023 features twenty pieces of short fiction that reflect a world full of fractured relationships, but also wondrous hope. A lifelong friends ...Show more
After Sex: The Search for Reproductive Freedom by Edited and introduced by Edna Bonhomme and Alice Spawls
$35.00 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
Author: Edna Bonhomme & Alice Spawls (eds.) The last decade has seen a rise in activism and arguments over women’s reproductive freedom reminiscent of the 1960s and 1970s. This title provides personal and political perspectives from the mid-twentieth century to the present day, setting feminist cla ...Show more
Too Much of Life - Complete Chronicles by Clarice Lispector; Margaret Jull Costa (Translator); Robin Patterson (Translator)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
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
Seven Rooms by Gareth Evans; Dominic J. Jaeckle (Foreword by, Editor); Jess Chandler (Editor, Foreword by)
$55.00 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
Echoes (2nd Edition) by Shu-Ling Chua
$15.00 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
Joint winner of the 2021 Small Press Network Book of the Year Award Echoes is a curious and lyrical collection of personal essays from Melbourne-based writer Shu-Ling Chua which references art and literature, pop culture, and nostalgia. It gathers small joys, from a figure-hugging ‘disco dress’ to l ...Show more
Dialogue with a Somnambulist: Stories, Essays & a Portrait Gallery by Chloe Aridjis
$27.95 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
Renowned internationally for her lyrically unsettling novels Book of Clouds, Asunder and Sea Monsters, the Mexican writer Chloe Aridjis crosses borders in her work as much as she traverses them in life. Now, collected here for the first time, her stories, essays and pen portraits reveal an author as ima ...Show more
HEAT Series 3 Number 11 by Alexandra Christie
$22.95 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Series: Heat Ser.
First published in 1996, HEAT is a literary magazine dedicated to publishing essays, fiction, and poetry by Australian and overseas writers of the highest quality. Recent contributors include Antigone Kefala, Alena Lodkina, Xi Xi, Katerina Gibson, Paul Muldoon, Patrick Pound, Isabella Trimboli, Eda Guna ...Show more
McSweeney's Issue 71 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern) - The Monstrous and the Terrible by Claire Boyle (Editor-In-Chief); Dave Eggers (Editor); Brian Evenson (Guest Editor); James Yeh (Editor)
$61.00 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Series: Mcsweeney's Quarterly Concern Ser.
Our first-ever issue-length foray into horror, and featuring one of our biggest lineups in some time, our seventy-first issue is one for the ages. Guest edited by Brian Evenson, McSweeney's 71: The Monstrous and the Terrible is a hair-raising collection of fiction that will challenge the notion of what ...Show more
The Dark Earth and Selected Prose from the Great Depression by Sanora Babb; Erin Royston Battat (Introduction by); Joanne Dearcopp (Editor); Carol Loranger (Editor)
$46.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
This collection of short stories and journalism by Sanora Babb, written between 1932 and 1949, brings to life the painful period of the Great Depression. With unique insight, Babb writes with passion and empathy gained from personal experience. Whether real or fictional, the people in these pages may st ...Show more
Death by Landscape by Elvia Wilk
$35.00 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
From the acclaimed author of the novel Oval comes a book of "fan nonfiction" about living and writing in the age of extinction In this constellation of essays, Elvia Wilk asks what kinds of narratives will help us rethink our human perspective toward Earth. The book begins as an exploration of the ...Show more
Granta 164: Last Notes by Sigrid Rausing
$32.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
Granta's summer issue will be themed around sound, music, silence and war. From established voices to debut novelists, Britain's most prestigious literary magazine brings you the best new writing from around the world. Featuring non-fiction by Lydia Davis, Peter Englund (tr. Sigrid Rausing) Diana Evans ...Show more
Pleasure of Thinking by Wang Xiaobo
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
The dazzling essays of the beloved, subversive Chinese writer Wang Xiaobo, a continual bestseller in China, now in English for the first time. Wang Xiaobo made his name as a novelist but his essays, too, have become ongoing bestsellers in China since their publication in the 1990s. Bringing together hi ...Show more