Friends and Rivals: Four Great Australian Writers: Barbara Baynton, Ethel Turner, Nettie Palmer, Henry Handel Richardson by Brenda Niall
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Category: Essays & Letters
Four Australian women writing in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries-a time when stories of bush heroism and mateship abounded, a time when a writing career might be an elusive thing for a woman. Friends and Rivals is a vivid and engaging account of the intersecting and entwined lives of E ...Show more
Mouth Full of Blood: Essays, Speeches, Meditations by Toni Morrison
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Category: Essays & Letters
A vital new non-fiction collection from one of the most celebrated and revered writers of our time. 'We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.' - The Nobel Lecture in Literature, 1993 The power of language, discussed beautifully in Toni Morrison's ...Show more
The 2000s Made Me Gay: Essays on Pop Culture by Grace Perry
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Category: Essays & Letters
From The Onion and Reductress contributor, this collection of essays is a hilarious nostalgic trip through beloved 2000s media, interweaving cultural criticism and personal narrative to examine how a very straight decade forged a very queer womanHonest, funny, smart, and illuminating." --Anna Drezen, co ...Show more
The Faraway Nearby by Rebecca Solnit
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Category: Essays & Letters
From the author of Orwell's Roses, a personal, lyrical narrative about storytelling and empathy - a fitting companion to Solnit's A Field Guide to Getting Lost. Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. In this exquisitely written book by the author of A Paradise Built in Hell, Rebecca Sol ...Show more
Strangers to Ourselves: Stories of Unsettled Minds by Rachel Aviv
$35.00 AUD
Category: Essays & Letters
We place a great deal of trust in the medical system. But does a mental health diagnosis have the power to perpetuate, or even create, symptoms as its subject adapts to live within it? Is there another way of talking about their experience? And are patients being truly heard? In an attempt to answer t ...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
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
Known and Strange Things by Teju Cole
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Category: Essays & Letters
Shortlisted for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award and the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay A blazingly intelligent first collection of essays from the award-winning author of Open City and Every Day Is for the Thief. With these pieces on politics, photography, travel, history and ...Show more
The Art of War by Sun Tzu
$16.99 AUD
Category: Essays & Letters | Series: Knickerbocker Classics Ser.
Written in the 6th century BC, Sun Tzu's The Art of War is a Chinese military treatise that is still revered today as the ultimate commentary on war and military strategy. Focussing on the principle that one can outsmart your foe mentally by thinking very carefully about strategy before resorting to phy ...Show more
How to Write About Africa by Binyavanga Wainaina
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Category: Essays & Letters
A trailblazing collection of writing on contemporary Africa from across Binyavanga Wainaina's extraordinary life - ranging from musings on politics and culture to deeply personal introspectionsBinyavanga Wainaina was a seminal author and activist, remembered as one of the greatest chroniclers of contemp ...Show more
Mothers, Fathers, and Others: New Essays by Siri Hustvedt
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Category: Essays & Letters
Feminist philosophy meets family memoir in a fresh essay collection by Siri Hustvedt, author of the bestselling What I Loved and Booker Prize-longlisted The Blazing World.'A wonderful essayist . . . Her new collection is replete with personal history and recollection, and sparkles with small descriptive ...Show more
Dreams Must Explain Themselves and Other Essays 1972-2004 by Ursula K. Le Guin
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Category: Essays & Letters
Ursula K. Le Guin has won or been nominated for over 200 awards for her fiction, including the Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy and SFWA Grand Master Awards. She is the acclaimed author of the Earthsea sequence and The Left Hand of Darkness - which alone would qualify her for literary immortality - as well a ...Show more