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
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
The Art of War by Sun Tzu
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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
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
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
One Million Lovely Letters: When Life is Looking Hopeless, One Inspirational Letter Can Change Your Life Forever by Jodi Ann Bickley
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Category: Essays & Letters
In the summer of 2011, aged only 22, Jodi Ann Bickley contracted a serious brain infection that would change her life forever. Jodi had been performing at Camp Bestival on the Isle of Wight. Returning with pockets full of glitter, and her favourite bands' songs still playing in her head, She thought the ...Show more
David Bowie - The Last Interview by David Bowie (Editor)
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Category: Essays & Letters | Series: The\Last Interview Ser.
The massive, world-wide outpouring of grief at the death of David Bowie notably focused on not only his stunning musical output, but also his fascinating refusal to stay the same--the same as other trending artists, or even the same as himself. In this remarkable collection, Bowie reveals the fierce ...Show more
Known and Strange Things by Teju Cole
$29.99 AUD
Category: Essays & Letters | Reading Level: very good
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 literature - many of which have become viral sensations, shared and debated around the globe - Teju Cole solidifie ...Show more
My Misspent Youth - Essays by Meghan Daum
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Category: Essays & Letters
Now back in print, author of "The Unspeakable "Meghan Daum's acclaimed cult classic that revitalized the personal essay for a new generation of writersMeghan Daum is one of the most celebrated nonfiction writers working today, widely recognized for the fresh, provocative approach with which she unearths ...Show more