Why Sex Doesn't Matter by Olivia Fane
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Category: Essays
Olivia Fane addresses the politics, the obsessions, the misconceptions of one of the most important aspects of human existence.Is Sex Natural? Is Sex Dirty? Is Sex Loving? Is Sex about Beauty? Is Sex Political?This is a necessary and controversial book in these confused, self-obsessed, sex-obsessed and ...Show more
I Fear for This Boy - Some Chapters of Accidents by Theo Fennell
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Category: Essays
Theo Fennell's picaresque journey from the depths of financial despair to the glittering celebrity world of the rich and famous is a comic classic comparable to Three Men in a Boat or Bill Bryson's The Thunderbolt Kid. Despite the occasional success disasters and failures dominate his business life. Non ...Show more
A Time for New Dreams by Ben Okri
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Category: Essays
A collection of exquisitely crafted essays by Ben Okri, one of Britain's foremost poets, and a Booker Prize-winning novelist, that explore such diverse themes as childhood and creativity, beauty, censorship, art and politics. 'A single line,' writes Ben Okri, 'can lead the mind to terraces of contempla ...Show more
How to Read Now by Elaine Castillo
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Category: Essays
'I cannot say enough about How to Read Now... Check it out' Roxane Gay'A red-hot grenade... One of my favourite books of the year' Jia Tolentino'Energetically brilliant, warmly humane, incisively funny' Andrew Sean Greer'I gasped, shouted, and holler-laughed . . . Phenomenal' R.O. Kwon'A wake-up call. A ...Show more
A Way of Being Free by Ben Okri
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Category: Essays
From Booker Prize-winner Ben Okri: twelve of his most controversial non-fiction pieces form this collection on the theme of freedom. Ranging from the personal to the analytical, covering subjects such as art, politics, storytelling and creativity, A WAY OF BEING FREE confirms Okri's place as one of the ...Show more
Oppositions - Selected Essays by Mary Gaitskill
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Category: Essays
A collection of provocative and searchingly analytical essays by the author of Bad Behavior, This is Pleasure, and Lost Cat.
Notes from the Henhouse: Collected Essays by Elspeth Barker
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Category: Essays | Series: W&N Essentials Ser.
In Notes from the Henhouse, you will find: A Gothic castle, a draughty Norfolk farmhouse and a malevolent Aga A pet pig, Portia with a penchant for drama, an obsession with geraniums and an addiction to wine (the Bulgarian vintage) George Barker, poet and beloved husband, warbling cowboy songs into his ...Show more
Interventions 2020 by Michel Houellebecq
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Category: Essays
The death of God in the West was the prelude to a formidable metaphysical soap opera that continues to this day. Christianity's masterstroke was to combine a fierce belief in the individual with the promise of eternal participation in the Absolute. When that dream evaporated, various attempts were made ...Show more
Literary Essays of Ezra Pound by Ezra Pound; T. S. Eliot (Editor)
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Category: Essays
For this definitive collection of Pound's Literary Essays, his friend (and English editor) T. S. Eliot chose material from five earlier volumes: Pavannes and Divisions (1918), Instigations (1920), How to Read (1931), Make It New (1934), and Polite Essays (1937). 33 pieces are arranged in three groups: T ...Show more
Pound/Joyce: Letters and Essays by Ezra Pound
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Category: Essays
This is the record of one of the most interesting personal relationships of modern literature. Between 1913, when Yeats first called Joyce's work to Pound's attention, and 1920 there was a steady flow of letters, in which we see Pound finding publishers for Joyce, collecting money for him, defending him ...Show more
Modernist Literature - An Introduction by Mary Ann Gillies; Aurelea Mahood
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Category: Essays
An engaging critical assessment of British literature produced between 1900 and 1945.
2023: A Year of Consequence by The Conversation; Justin Bergman (Editor)
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Category: Essays
"This was a year of consequential decisions - not just for Australia, but the world. In Australia, the year was dominated by a historic referendum on the Voice to Parliament, transforming its military to respond to the shifting security challenges in the region and how the government help everyday Austr ...Show more