Griffith Review 75: Learning Curves by Ashley Hay (Editor)
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Category: Essays | Series: Griffith Review Ser.
What can we learn about learning?Australians have one of the highest levels of educational attainment in the world, but not every Australian has access to a world-class education. What represents a 'good’ education in a country with an increasingly segmented school system and a tertiary sector that face ...Show more
Griffith Review 77: Real Cool World by Ashley Hay
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Category: Essays | Series: Griffith Review Ser.
Griffith Review 77: Real Cool World explores Antarctica as both a place and a canvas for imagination. This vast, dry continent drives much of our global weather, a litmus test for change at the world’s extremities and a canary in the coalmine. Stories about this deep south illuminate much of the rest of ...Show more
Griffith Review 79: Counterfeit Culture by Carody Culver (Editor)
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Category: Essays | Series: Griffith Review Ser.
'A faker,' said Orson Welles, 'makes fools of the experts. So, who's the expert? Who’s the faker?'Griffith Review 79 lifts the curtain on fakes, frauds and forgeries. Treading the tightrope between art and lies, it explores the appeal of stories, objects, bodies or experiences that offer the false promi ...Show more
Griffith Review 82: Animal Magic by Carody Culver (Editor)
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Category: Essays | Series: Griffith Review Ser.
Whether it’s man’s best friend or the king of the jungle, animals occupy a central place in our social, emotional and cultural lives. We’re happy as clams or pigs in mud; we hold our horses or take a lion’s share of what we want; we avoid the elephant in the room or try not to open a can of worms. Anima ...Show more
Had I Known: Collected Essays by Barbara Ehrenreich
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Category: Essays
A selection of the most provocative, incendiary, and brilliant pieces from one of America's most significant left-leaning journalists and activists. A self-proclaimed 'myth buster by trade', over her long-ranging career as a journalist and political activist Barbara Ehrenreich has delved with devastatin ...Show more
Have I Told You This Already? - Stories I Don't Want to Forget to Remember by Lauren Graham
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Category: Essays
From the beloved star of Gilmore Girls and the New York Times bestselling author of Talking as Fast as I Can comes a candid, insightful, and wildly entertaining essay collection about her years in show business, featuring stories that range from the sublime to the ridiculous.Lauren Graham has graced cou ...Show more
Haywire: The Best of Craig Brown by Craig Brown
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Category: Essays
From the bestselling and award-winning author of Ma'am Darling and One Two Three Four, a selection of Craig Brown's finest writing collected together for the first time.'The most screamingly funny living writer' Barry Humphries, Mail on SundayMixing parody, literary criticism, profiles, satire, light ve ...Show more
Heating and Cooling 52 Micro-Memoirs by Fennelly Beth Ann
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Category: Essays
The 52 micro-memoirs in genre-defying Heating & Cooling offer bright glimpses into a richly lived life, combining the compression of poetry with the truth-telling of nonfiction into one heartfelt, celebratory book. Ranging from childhood recollections to quirky cultural observations, these micro-mem ...Show more
Hijab Butch Blues by Lamya H
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Category: Essays
'A masterful, must-read contribution to conversations on power, justice, healing, and devotion from a singular voice I now trust with my whole heart' -GLENNON DOYLE, author of Untamed. When Lamya is fourteen, she decides to disappear. It seems easier to ease herself out of sight than to grapple with t ...Show more
Homo Irrealis by Andre Aciman
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Category: Essays
The bestselling author of Find Me and Call Me by Your Name returns to the essay form with this collection of thoughts on time, the creative mind, and great lives and works.
Homo Irrealis by Andre Aciman
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The bestselling author of Find Me and Call Me by Your Name returns to the essay form with this collection of thoughts on time, the creative mind, and great lives and works. In Homo Irrealis Andre Aciman explores what the present tense means to artists who cannot grasp the here and now. Irrealis is not a ...Show more
House of Fiction: From Pemberley to Brideshead, Great British Houses in Literature and Life by Phyllis Richardson
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Category: Essays
From the gothic fantasies of Walpole's Otranto to post-modern takes on the country house by Kazuo Ishiguro and Ian McEwan, Phyllis Richardson guides us on a tour through buildings real and imagined to examine how authors' personal experiences helped to shape the homes that have become icons of English l ...Show more