The Bad Boy of Athens: Classics from the Greeks to Game of Thrones by Daniel Mendelsohn
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Category: Essays
'Mendelsohn takes the classical costumes off figures like Virgil and Sappho, Homer and Horace ... He writes about things so clearly they come to feel like some of the most important things you have ever been told.' - Sebastian Barry. Over the past three decades, Daniel Mendelsohn's essays and reviews h ...Show more
The Book of Delights - Essays on the Small Joys We Overlook in Our Busy Lives by Ross Gay
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Category: Essays
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAs Heard on NPR's This American Life'The delights he extols here (music, laughter, generosity, poetry, lots of nature) are bulwarks against casual cruelties . . . contagious in their joy' New York Times The winner of the NBCC Award for Poetry offers up a spirited collection o ...Show more
The Darcy Myth - Jane Austen, Literary Heartthrobs, and the Monsters They Taught Us to Love by Rachel Feder
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Category: Essays
What if we've been reading Jane Austen and romantic classics all wrong? A funny, brainy, eye-opening take on how our contemporary love stories are actually pretty terrifying. Covering cultural touchstones ranging from Twilight to Taylor Swift and from Lord Byron to The Bachelor, The Darcy Myth is a boo ...Show more
The Gifts of Reading by Jennie Orchard (Selected by)
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Category: Essays | Series: Curated by Jennie Orchard
With contributions by: William Boyd, Candice Carty-Williams, Imtiaz Dharker, Roddy Doyle, Pico Iyer, Robert Macfarlane, Andy Miller, Jackie Morris, Jan Morris, Sisonke Msimang, Dina Nayeri, Chigozie Obioma, Michael Ondaatje, David Pilling, Max Porter, Philip Pullman, Alice Pung, Jancis Robinson, S.F.Sai ...Show more
The Post-Pandemic Child by Kim Cornish
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Category: Essays | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
In March 2020, schools and childcare centres across Australia were forced to close to control the spread of the recently arrived novel coronavirus (COVID-19). Families and carers suddenly had to adjust to long periods of home-schooling, disparities in the availability of technology, loss of social conne ...Show more
The White Album by Joan Didion
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Category: Essays
An extraordinary report on the aftermath of the 1960s in America by the New York Times-bestselling author of South and West and Slouching Towards Bethlehem.In this landmark essay collection, Joan Didion brilliantly interweaves her own "bad dreams" with those of a nation confronting the dark underside of ...Show more
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion by Jia Tolentino
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Category: Essays
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * "From The New Yorker's beloved cultural critic comes a bold, unflinching collection of essays about self-deception, examining everything from scammer culture to reality television."--Esquire "A whip-smart, challenging book."--Zadie Smith * "Jia Tolentino could be the Joan D ...Show more
True Stories: The Collected Short Non-Fiction by Helen Garner
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Category: Essays
Helen Garner visits the morgue, and goes cruising on a Russian ship. She sees women giving birth, and gets the sack for teaching her students about sex. She attends a school dance and a gun show. She writes about dreaming, about turning fifty, and the storm caused by The First Stone. Her stories on the ...Show more
What Do I Know?: Essential Essays by Michel de Montaigne
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Category: Essays
A selection of Michel de Montaigne's most profound, searching essays, in a new translation and stunning hardback edition
12 Bytes: How artificial intelligence will change the way we live and love by Jeanette Winterson
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Category: Essays
Twelve bytes. Twelve eye-opening, mind-expanding, funny and provocative essays on the implications of artificial intelligence for the way we live and the way we love - from Sunday Times-bestselling author Jeanette Winterson. In this original, deeply researched and lively new book, Jeanette Winterson tr ...Show more
A Field Guide To Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit
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Category: Essays | Series: Canons
In this investigation into loss, losing and being lost, Rebecca Solnit explores the challenges of living with uncertainty. A Field Guide to Getting Lost takes in subjects as eclectic as memory and mapmaking, Hitchcock movies and Renaissance painting, Beautifully written, this book combines memoir, histo ...Show more
A Guest at the Feast by Colm Toibin
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Category: Essays
A Guest at the Feast uncovers the places where politics and poetics meet, where life and fiction overlap, where one can be inside writing and also outside of it. From the melancholy and amusement within the work of the writer John McGahern to an extraordinary essay on his own cancer diagnosis, Tóibín de ...Show more