The Little Virtues by Natalia Ginzburg
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Reading Level: very good
“As far as the education of children is concerned,” states Natalia Ginzburg in this collection of her finest and best-known short essays, “I think they should be taught not the little virtues but the great ones. Not thrift but generosity and an indifference to money; not caution but courage and a contem ...Show more
Griffith Review 84: Attachment Styles
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Series: Griffith Review Ser.
The attachments we form shape our experience of the world and our understanding of who we are. ‘Hell is other people', wrote Jean-Paul Sartre, his point being less about misanthropy and more about how entwined our self-perception is with the ways in which others perceive us. And alongside our personal r ...Show more
Octavia E. Butler: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations by Octavia Estelle Butler
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
Octavia E. Butler's work broke innumerable barriers and helped open the field of science fiction to writers and readers it had never had before. As the first Black writer to win the coveted Nebula and Hugo Awards, her courage and vision left a peerless legacy for fans not just of science fiction, but of ...Show more
Povo by Adam Novaldy Anderson (Editor)
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
Thirty-seven writers from First Nations, migrant and refugee backgrounds reveal the true wealth and beauty of Australia’s cultural melting pots.Australia is often referred to as The Lucky Country — a land of economic opportunity and vast natural resources. But how does this myth square up against the tr ...Show more
Why Read by Will Self
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
From the Booker-shortlisted author of Umbrella, a world-girdling collection of writings inspired by a life lived in and for literature.
Collected Stories by Ben Rivers
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
Fiction and poetry have always been an essential source of inspiration for Ben Rivers' filmmaking. This title is a collection of stories, curated by the filmmaker himself, made in response to his films. The authors of these collected stories include Chloe Aridjis, Kevin Barry, Xiaolu Guo, Nathalie Léger ...Show more
My Gothic Heart by Charlie Castelletti
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
The word gothic conjures up crumbling castles, passion and unnerving supernatural events. It's a powerful genre and a mood that has influenced writers, artists and designers ever since. This is a gorgeous anthology of extracts from extravagant and dark gothic stories and verse.Part of the Macmillan Coll ...Show more
How to Read Now by Elaine Castillo
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
'I cannot say enough about How to Read Now... Check it out' Roxane Gay'A red-hot grenade... One of my favourite books of the year' Jia Tolentino'Energetically brilliant, warmly humane, incisively funny' Andrew Sean Greer'I gasped, shouted, and holler-laughed . . . Phenomenal' R.O. Kwon'A wake-up call. A ...Show more
Granta 165: Deutschland
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
Granta is a literary magazine founded in 1889. Read the best new fiction, poetry, photography, and essays by famous authors, Nobel winners and new voices.
No Judgement : On Being Critical by Lauren Oyler
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
A brilliant and addictive collection of brand-new essays on modern culture - from 'the pre-eminent and most widely read critic of her generation' The Times I heard this crazy story, and I want you to know.It is the age of internet gossip; of social networks, repackaged ideas and rating everything out o ...Show more
The Pulling by Adele Dumont
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
When I've been overtaken, I have stood and watched the water in my porridge simmer away into the air, and then the oats turn black and crackle with dryness, and my ears fill with the smoke alarm's shriek. When Adele Dumont is diagnosed with trichotillomania - compulsive hair-pulling - it makes sense of ...Show more