In the Land of the Cyclops Essays 1996-2013 by Karl Ove Knausgaard; Martin Aitken (Translator)
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Category: Essays & Letters
Karl Ove Knausgaard's My Struggle series broke new ground in fiction. In the Land of the Cyclops is his first collection of full-length essays to be published in English, and these brilliant and wide-ranging pieces meditate on themes familiar from his fiction. Collected here is a selection of his writin ...Show more
Affinities by Brian Dillon
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Category: Essays & Letters
What do we mean when we claim affinity with an object or picture, or say that affinities exist (not only formal) between such things? What do feelings of affinity imply about individual or collective experience of art, and of the world? The word áffinity'used to mean an attraction of opposites, between ...Show more
Directions to Myself by Heidi Julavits
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Category: Essays & Letters
In this honest and provocative book Heidi Julavits examines gender, power and sexuality, engaging with a debate which has never been more relevant than it is today. How can a mother know her son will not grow up to be a rapist? How can a mother know her son will not be falsely accused of being a rapist ...Show more
I Choose Elena by Lucia Osborne-Crowley
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Category: Essays & Letters
Aged fifteen and on track to be an Olympic gymnast, Lucia Osborne-Crowley was violently raped in Sydney on a night out, sparking a series of events that left her devastatingly ill for more than ten years of her life. Her path to healing began a decade later, when she told someone about her rape for the ...Show more
Keep Moving by Maggie Smith
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Category: Essays & Letters
'Candid, lyrical and full of empathy, this is a book that feels vital and welcome in these times - for those who are struggling, or anyone just seeking joy. A stunning and wise piece of work' Sinéad Gleeson, author of Constellations'Maggie Smith writes so honestly without being brutal and she shows read ...Show more
Homo Irrealis by Andre Aciman
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Category: Essays & Letters
The bestselling author of Find Me and Call Me by Your Name returns to the essay form with this collection of thoughts on time, the creative mind, and great lives and works.
Here and Now by Paul Auster, J M Coetzee
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Category: Essays & Letters
Here and Now is a collection of letters between Paul Auster and Nobel laureate J. M. Coetzee, two of the greatest writers of our time. Although Paul Auster and J. M. Coetzee had been reading each other's books for years, the two writers did not meet until February 2008. Not long after, Auster received a ...Show more
Griffith Review 76: Acts of Reckoning by Ashley Hay (Editor); Teela Reid (Contribution by)
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Category: Essays & Letters | Series: Griffith Review Ser.
Truth-telling in a post-truth world.Four years on from the Uluru Statement from the Heart, there’s a clear divide between the groundswell of popular support to recognise the rightful place of First Nations people in Australia’s democratic life and ongoing political inertia in the same space. Griffith Re ...Show more
Essays and Aphorisms: Pocket Hardbacks by Arthur Schopenhauer
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Category: Essays & Letters | Series: Penguin Pocket Hardbacks Ser.
One of the greatest philosophers of the nineteenth century, Schopenhauer (1788-1860) believed that human action is determined not by reason but by 'will' - the blind and irrational desire for physical existence. This selection of his writings on religion, ethics, politics, women, suicide, books and many ...Show more
The Penguin Book of Modern Speeches by Brian MacArthur (Editor)
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Category: Essays & Letters
From Theodore Roosevelt to Barack Obama, from Gandhi to Mandela, the most significant speeches of the modern era Whether the rousing words of Winston Churchill, the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Salman Rushdie's denouncement of his fatwa, or the optimism of Barack Obama, speeches shape the w ...Show more
Aftershocks - Selected Writings and Interviews by Anthony Macris
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Category: Essays & Letters