Judith Wright and Emily Carr - Gendered Colonial Modernity by Anne Collett; Dorothy Jones; Erik Tonning (Series edited by); Matthew Feldman (Series edited by); David Tucker (Series edited by)
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Category: Essays | Series: Historicizing Modernism Ser.
Knitting together two fascinating but entirely distinct lives, this ingeniously structured braided biography tells the story of the lives and work of two women, each a cultural icon in her own country yet lesser known in the other's. Australian poet Judith Wright and Canadian painter Emily Carr broke n ...Show more
Justice and Hope: Essays, Lectures and Other Writings by Raimond Gaita
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Category: Essays
The collected writings of Raimond Gaita 'From where will we draw the moral energy to stay true to justice?' For more than three decades the incomparable voice of Raimond Gaita has been summoning us to new conversations that deepen our understanding of what matters most to human life and awaken the sen ...Show more
KILL ALL YOUR DARLINGS by SANTE LUC
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Category: Essays
This first collection of Sante's essays (from The New York Review of Books, the Village Voice, Granta, and more) includes his unique take on icons from Arthur Rimbaud to Allen Ginsberg, Buddy Bolden to Bob Dylan, Magritte to Mapplethorpe, New York to New Jersey, and Victor Hugo to Tintin. Along the way, ...Show more
Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write - An Autobiography Through Essays by Claire Messud
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Category: Essays
Arranged in three parts, Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write opens with Claire's most personal essays - reflections on a childhood divided between cultures, and between dueling models of womanhood. It is here, in these early years, that we see the seeds of Messud's inquiry into th ...Show more
Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020 by Salman Rushdie
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Category: Essays
Languages of Truth offers Salman Rushdie's most piercingly analytical views yet on the evolution of literature and culture even as he takes us deep into his own exuberant and fearless imagination. Salman Rushdie is celebrated as a storyteller of the highest order, illuminating deep truths about our soci ...Show more
Last Letter to a Reader by Gerald Murnane
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Category: Essays
A final work by internationally acclaimed Australian author Gerald Murnane, reflecting on his career as a writer, and the fifteen books which have led critics to praise him as ‘a genius on the level of Beckett’.A book which will appeal equally to Murnane’s legion of fans, and to those new to his work, a ...Show more
Late Essays: 2006-2017 by J. M. Coetzee
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Category: Essays
Late Essays is the last of three collections of literary criticism by J. M. Coetzee to be republished by Text. It includes essays on Flaubert and Goethe, Patrick White and Gerald Murnane. These are concise, accessible introductions to some of the world's greatest writers, by a contemporary master.
Let Me Tell You What I Mean by Joan Didion
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Category: Essays
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR - NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - From one of our most iconic and influential writers, the award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking a timeless collection of mostly early pieces that reveal what would become Joan Didion's subjects, including the press, p ...Show more
Let Me Tell You What I Mean [HB] by Joan Didion
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Category: Essays
From one of our most iconic and influential writers: twelve pieces never before collected that offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of this legendary figure. Mostly drawn from the earliest part of her astonishing five-decade career, Didion writes about a Gamblers Anonymous meeting, a ...Show more
Like Love: Essays and Conversations by Maggie Nelson
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Category: Essays
'One of the most electrifying writers at work in America today, among the sharpest and most supple thinkers of her generation'. Olivia Laing. Like Love is a momentous, raucous collection of essays drawn from twenty years of Maggie Nelson's brilliant work. These profiles, reviews, remembrances, tribute ...Show more
Lila: An Enquiry Into Morals by Robert Pirsig
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Category: Essays
In this bestselling new book, his first in seventeen years, Robert M. Pirsig, author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, takes us on a poignant and passionate journey as mysterious and compelling as his first life-changing work. Instead of a motorcycle, a sailboat carries his philosopher-nar ...Show more
Little Weirds by Jenny Slate
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Category: Essays
'Magical' - Mindy Kaling 'Delicious' - Amy Sedaris 'Funny and poignant and beautiful' - John Mulaney 'It made me remember I was alive' - George Saunders To see the world through Jenny Slate's eyes is to see it as though for the first time, shimmering with strangeness and possibility. As she will remind ...Show more