Too Much and Not the Mood: Essays by Durga Chew-Bose
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Category: Essays
**A Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year** From one of Canada's most distinctive and intelligent emerging voices, a heartfelt collection of essays in Durga Chew-Bose's captivating and truly inimitable style. In Too Much and Not the Mood, Durga Chew-Bose flings us headlong into her most intimate philos ...Show more
Religion for Atheists: A Non-Believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion by Alain de Botton
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Category: Essays
From the author of The Architecture of Happiness, a bold argument on how we can still benefit, without believing, from the wisdom, the beauty, and the consolatory power that religion has to offer. What if religions are neither all true nor all nonsense? The long-running and often boring debate between ...Show more
Boyer Lectures 2012: The Quiet Revolution - Indigenous People and The Resources Boom by Marcia Langton
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Category: Essays | Series: Boyer Lectures
'My aim with the 53rd Boyer Lectures has been to inject new ideas and new ways of thinking about the status of Indigenous people in Australia and about the impact of the mining boom in the Aboriginal domain. My hope is that my interpretation of the economic impacts of the mining boom and some facts abou ...Show more
Consider The Lobster: Essays and Arguments by David Foster Wallace
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Category: Essays
Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a funny bone? What is John Updike's deal, anyway? And what happens when adult video starlets meet their fans in person? David Foster Wallace answers these questions and more in essays that are also enthralling narrative adventures. Whether covering the th ...Show more
The Fight by Norman Mailer
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Category: Essays | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Muhammad Ali met George Foreman in the ring. Foreman's genius employed silence, serenity and cunning. He had never been defeated. His hands were his instrument, and 'he kept them in his pockets the way a hunter lays his rifle back into its velvet case'. This book focuses on the 1975 World Heavyweight Bo ...Show more
On the US election: Quarterly Essay 95 by Don Watson
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Category: Essays
Is the United States disintegrating? Don Watson offers a report from America that catches the madness and the politics of an election like no other. This is a deeply historically informed, characteristically mordant account of Donald Trump, Joe Biden and a divided country. Watson considers how things ...Show more
The Scent of Flowers at Night: a stunning new work of non-fiction from the bestselling author of Lullaby by Leila Slimani
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Category: Essays
FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF LULLABY, AND TRANSLATED BY SAM TAYLOR'A revelation - I have never felt more seen by a book, nor have I been so gripped'Katy Hessel'An engaging meditation'Daily TelegraphIn 2019, Leïla Slimani was commissioned by her editor to spend a sleepless night alone i ...Show more
Frank Knopfelmacher Selected Writings by Frank Knopfelmacher
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Category: Essays
In this compelling collection, delve into the profound thoughts and fearless observations of Frank Knopfelmacher, a true intellectual luminary and participant observer of the tumultuous 20th century. From his formative years marked by firsthand experiences of Hitler and Stalin regimes, Knopfelmacher eme ...Show more
On Women: A new collection of feminist essays from the influential writer, activist and critic, Susan Sontag by Susan Sontag
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Category: Essays
For the most part written in the 1970s during the height of second-wave feminism, Sontag's essays are strikingly relevant to our contemporary conversations. At times powerfully in sync and at others powerfully at odds with them, they are always characteristically original in their examinations of the 'b ...Show more
On Marriage by Devorah Baum
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Category: Essays
For better or worse, for richer for poorer, till death us do part - we've always done it and we're still doing it. Of all our cultural institutions, marriage is the most ancient, but also the most puzzling. In this compelling and delightful book, Devorah Baum examines the many meanings we have given to ...Show more
Twenty Years A-Growing by Maurice O'Sullivan
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Category: Essays | Series: Oxford Paperbacks
In tellng the story of his youth, Maurice O'Sullivan uses a style derived from the folk tales he learned from his grandfather, and sharpened by his own lively imagination. Though he wrote simply for his own pleasure and for the entertainment of his friends--without any thought of a wider audience--O'Sul ...Show more
A Silent Language by Jon Fosse
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Category: Essays
Published in book form for the first time, Jon Fosse's Nobel Lecture, delivered in Stockholm in December 2023, translated by Damion Searls.