Meanjin Vol 76 No 2 by Jonathan Green
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Category: Essays & Letters
A tinge of sadness in this June 2017 edition of Meanjin- it includes the last Commonplace column filed by John Clarke before his death in April. Published with the kind permission of his family it is a beautifully turned and now poignant piece. Clarke's longtime home, the ABC, is the subject of the maj ...Show more
Everywhere I Look (Audio CD; unabridged; 6 CDs) by Helen Garner
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Category: Essays & Letters
collection of essays from award-winning author Helen Garner. I pedal over to Kensington just after dark. As I roll along the lane towards the railway underpass, a young Asian woman on her way home from the station walks out of the tunnel towards me. After she passes there's a stillness, a moment of sile ...Show more
Griffith Review 56: Millennials Strike Back by Julianne Schultz and Jerath Head (Editors)
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Category: Essays & Letters | Series: Griffith REVIEW
Millennials have had bad press for a long time. Now they are fighting back, making their mark on a world that is profoundly different from the one their parents knew. The oldest were in primary school when the Soviet Union collapsed and deregulation swept the west. As they entered adulthood they witness ...Show more
Love + Hate: Stories and Essays by Hanif Kureishi
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Category: Essays & Letters
An inventive, thought-provoking and characteristically bold collection of short fiction and essays from Hanif Kureishi, centred around the vexed relationship between love and hate. In the story of a Pakistani woman who has begun a new life in Paris, an essay about the writing of Kureishi's acclaimed fil ...Show more
Kurt Vonnegut: The Last Interview and Other Conversations by Kurt Vonnegut
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Category: Essays & Letters | Reading Level: very good
During his long career, Kurt Vonnegut won international praise for his novels, plays and essays. In this new anthology of conversations with Vonnegut - which collects interviews from throughout his career - we learn much about what drove Vonnegut to write and how he viewed his work at the end. Kurt Vonn ...Show more
The Cypherpunk Revolutionary on Julian Assange: Short Black 9 by Robert Manne
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Category: Essays & Letters | Series: Short Blacks
There are few original ideas in politics. In the creation of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange was responsible for one. This essay reveals the making of Julian Assange - both his ideas and his world-changing actions. Robert Manne explores Assange's unruly childhood and then his involvement with the revolutiona ...Show more
Killing the Black Dog: Short Black 10 by Les Murray
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Category: Essays & Letters | Series: Short Blacks
'On the last day of 1985, I went home to live in Bunyah, the farming valley I had left some twenty-nine years earlier. My wife and our younger children followed two days later ...at last I was going home, to care for my father in his old age and to live in the place from which I'd always felt displaced. ...Show more
Masters of Mankind - Essays and Lectures, 1969-2013 by Noam Chomsky
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Category: Essays & Letters
In this collection of essays from 1969 to 2013, many in book form for the first time, Noam Chomsky examines the nature of state power, from the ideologies driving the Cold War to the War on Terror, and reintroduces the moral and legal questions that all too often go unheeded. With unrelenting logic, he ...Show more
The Secret Life: Three True Stories by Andrew O'Hagan
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Category: Essays & Letters | Reading Level: very good
The slippery online ecosystem is the perfect breeding ground for identities: true, false, and in between. The Internet shorthand IRL-"in real life"-now seems naïve. We no longer question the reality of online experiences but the reality of selfhood in the digital age.In The Secret Life, the essayist and ...Show more
The Books that Changed My Life by Bethanne (editor) Patrick
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Category: Essays & Letters
"One hundred of today's most prominent literary and cultural icons talk about the books that hold a special place in their hearts-that made them who they are today. Leading authors, politicians, CEOs, actors, and other notables share the books that changed their life, why they love them, and their passi ...Show more
In Praise of Idleness - A Timeless Essay by Bertrand Russell
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Category: Essays & Letters
New York Times bestselling author Bradley Trevor Greive breathes new life into Bertrand Russell’s classic work, In Praise of Idleness, with a magical package that includes BTG’s new introduction, biographical afterword, historical notes, additional quotations and comic illustrations. This is the perfect ...Show more