Ex Libris - Confessions of a Common Reader by Anne Fadiman
$23.00 AUD
Category: Essays
The author is the sort of person who learned about sex from her father's copy of "Fanny Hill", and who once found herself poring over a 1974 Toyota Corolla manual because it was the only thing in her apartment that she had not read at least twice. This title recounts her lifelong obsession with books. ...Show more
No Judgement : On Being Critical by Lauren Oyler
$35.00 AUD
Category: Essays
A brilliant and addictive collection of brand-new essays on modern culture - from 'the pre-eminent and most widely read critic of her generation' The Times I heard this crazy story, and I want you to know.It is the age of internet gossip; of social networks, repackaged ideas and rating everything out o ...Show more
The Double Flame: Love and Eroticism by Octavio Paz Lozano; Helen Lane (Text by)
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Category: Essays
In this series of essays Paz explores the intimate connection between sex, eroticism, and love in literature throughout the ages. Rich in scope, The Double Flame examines everything from taboo to repression, Carnival to Lent, Sade to Freud, original sin to artificial intelligence. "Brimming with insight ...Show more
New Domino Theory: Does China really want to attack Australia? Australian Foreign Affairs 19 by Jonathan Pearlman
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Category: Essays
The latest issue of Australian Foreign Affairs examines China's ultimate goals as an emerging superpower, including the extent of its territorial ambitions. New Domino Theory looks at Australia's place in China's long-term plans and at the threat - if any - that Beijing poses to Australian security, pol ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 92: The Great Divide: Australia's Housing Mess and How to Fix It by Alan Kohler
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Category: Essays
What caused Australia's housing crisis - and how we might fix it One of the great mysteries of Australian life is that a land of sweeping plains, with one of the lowest population densities on the planet, has a shortage of land for houses. As a result, Sydney's median house price is the second most exp ...Show more
The Best American Essays 2023 by Vivian Gornick; Robert Atwan
$38.00 AUD
Category: Essays | Series: Best American Ser.
In her introduction to this year's The Best American Essays, guest editor Vivian Gornick states that her selections "contribute materially to the long and honorable history of the personal essay by way of the value they place on lived experience." Provocative, daring, and honest at a time when many wr ...Show more
What Do I Know?: Essential Essays by Michel de Montaigne
$33.00 AUD
Category: Essays
A selection of Michel de Montaigne's most profound, searching essays, in a new translation and stunning hardback edition
We Need to Talk about America: An Alliance in Flux: Australian Foreign Affairs 18 by Jonathan Pearlman
$25.00 AUD
Category: Essays
The latest issue of Australian Foreign Affairs examines Australia's evolving ties with the United States as the power balance in Asia changes and as Washington continues to face bitter domestic divides. We Need to Talk about America looks at the future of the alliance in an era in which the US's global ...Show more
The Plague: Living death in our times by Jacqueline Rose
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Category: Essays
A collection of essays imagining a world in which a radical respect for death might exist alongside a fairer distribution of the earth's wealth, by one of our leading thinkers.
Upstream - Selected Essays by Mary Oliver
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Category: Essays
One of O, The Oprah Magazine's Ten Best Books of the Year The New York Times bestselling collection of essays from beloved poet, Mary Oliver. "In the beginning I was so young and such a stranger to myself I hardly existed. I had to go out into the world and see it and hear it and react to it, be ...Show more
Arrangements in Blue: Notes on Love and Making a Life by Amy Key
$37.00 AUD
Category: Essays
"Is it possible life without romantic love isn't so bad?" An essential memoir about building life on your own terms 'Beautiful... Key writes with such tenderness and insight' Olivia Laing When poet Amy Key was growing up, she looked forward to a life shaped by romance, fuelled by desire, longing and ...Show more