Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency by Olivia Laing
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Category: Essays
Never has a publication been more timely' - Dazed 'A brave writer whose books open up fundamental questions about life and art' - Telegraph In this remarkable, inspiring collection of essays, acclaimed writer and critic Olivia Laing makes a brilliant case for why art matters, especially in the turbule ...Show more
García Márquez - 100 Years of Solitude by Michael Wood
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Category: Essays | Series: Landmarks of World Literature Ser.
One Hundred Years of Solitude is perhaps the most important landmark of the so-called 'Boom' in contemporary Latin American fiction.
Gentle and Fierce by Vanessa Berry
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Category: Essays
New collection of essays on the relationships between humans and animals, by Vanessa Berry, author of Mirror Sydney, and the memoir of adolescence Ninety9. Gentle and Fierce focuses on the world of animals, and the way their presence has shaped the author’s attitudes and her sense of self. Having spent ...Show more
Gift from the Sea by LINDBERGH, ANNE MORROW
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Category: Essays
'Women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves.' First published in 1955 and an instant bestseller, Gift from the Sea is a classic, wise book for women about how to flourish in life, how to balance life, work, motherhood; about finding space to think and breathe. Holidayi ...Show more
Girls Can Kiss Now: Essays by Jill Gutowitz
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Category: Essays
Perfect for fans of Samantha Irby and Trick Mirror, a funny, whip-smart collection of personal essays exploring the intersection of queerness, relationships, pop culture, the internet, and identity, introducing one of the most undeniably original new voices today. Jill Gutowitz's life -- for better and ...Show more
Grandmothers: Essays by 21st-century Grandmothers by Helen Elliott
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Category: Essays
An anthology of essays by twenty-four Australian women, edited by Helen Elliott, about the many aspects of being a grandmother in the 21st century. It seems so different from the experience we had of our grandmothers. Although perhaps the human essential, love, hasn't shifted much? In thoughtful, provok ...Show more
Granta 166 - Generations by Thomas Meaney
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Category: Essays
Baby-boomers, gen-X, millennials, zoomers: the dividing lines among generations in literary culture have become stark to the point of parody. Granta 166 tests the limits of each generation's given definition in popular culture against the reality of its most sharply observed fiction. Stories by Andr ...Show more
Gratitude by Oliver Sacks
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Category: Essays
My predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and been loved. I have been given much and I have given something in return. Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure. Oliver Sacks No wri ...Show more
Great Novels: The World's Most Remarkable Fiction Explored and Explained by DK
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Category: Essays
A beautifully illustrated guide to the greatest novels ever writtenDiscover everything you ever wanted to know about the world's greatest novels.From medieval romances and tales of chivalry through the realist novels of the 19th century to experimental modernist works and today's explorations of the sel ...Show more
Griffith Review 63 - Writing the Country by Ashley Hay; Julianne Schultz
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Category: Essays | Series: Griffith Review Ser.
How we speak of and to the world we live in requires us to make sense of where we are and where we?re going; it requires us to describe, interrogate and analyse our places from the smallest to the grandest of scales.In the second issue of Griffith Review, published fifteen years ago, Melissa Lucashenko ...Show more
Griffith Review 69: The European Exchange by Ashley Hay (Editor); Natasha Cica (Editor)
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Category: Essays
Europe has been thrown into sharp relief by the impact of a devastating pandemic. As country after country succumbs to the contemporary plague, deeply buried memories of death and destruction resurface.But Europe has emerged from devastation before, and become stronger and more connected. A year ago Fre ...Show more
Griffith Review 73: Hey, Utopia! by Ashley Hay (Editor)
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Category: Essays
Coined by Sir Thomas More in the sixteenth century, the word ‘utopia’ is a play on the Greek for no place and good place. But is an ideal society unattainable — or optimal?This edition of Griffith Review visits utopias old and new, near and far, to explore the possibilities and pitfalls of imagining a b ...Show more