Cultural Amnesia - Notes in the Margin of My Time by Clive James
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Category: Essays
A guide to the twentieth-century, illuminating the careers of many of its greatest thinkers, humanists, musicians, artists and philosophers, such as Louis Armstrong, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Walter Benjamin, Sigmund Freud, Franz Kafka and Marcel Proust.
Granta 99, Autumn 2007 : What Happened Next by Ian Jack (ed)
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Category: Essays
This title contains: Richard Ford interviewed by Tim Adams: the aftermath of Dirty Realism; Owen Sheers on the consequences of Christmas Island's nuclear past; Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on the death of her high-school sweetheart; Katya Krausova on the survivors of the Slovakian Holocaust; Roberto Saviano ...Show more
Granta 96 - Winter 2006 : War Zones by Ian Jack (ed.)
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Category: Essays | Series: The\Magazine of New Writing Ser.
Dispatches from the world of conflict, on the battlefield and off of it. Featuring Wendell Steavenson reporting from Beirut on the Israeli bombardment, Jame Buchan on the Trident base in Scotland, Geoff Dyer on everything he learned from war films, Jasmina Tesanovic on the death squads of Serbia and ...Show more
The Best American Essays 2010 by Christopher Hitchens (ed.)
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Category: Essays | Series: Best American Essays (Paperback)
The provocative and best-selling author Christopher Hitchens takes the helm of the twenty-fifth anniversary edition of this perennial favorite that is "reliable and yet still surprising--the best of the best" ("Kirkus Reviews").
Chihuahuas, Women and Me by Louis Nowra
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Category: Essays
A provocative collection of essays, Louis Nowra displays his curiosity, eccentricity and fascination with the weird and the monstrous. His subjects range from porn star Christy Canyon to the grand ambitions of Russian mafiosi and Australian business entrepeneurs.
Do Not Disturb: Is the Media Failing Australia? by Robert Manne
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Category: Essays
A book in which insiders assess the performance and political influence of the Australian media. It offers a critique of its strengths and weaknesses, and is not afraid to point the finger. Contributors include David Marr, Robert Manne, Wendy Bacon, Julia Baird, Jon Faine and Eric Beecher.
Letters to a Young Artist by Julia Cameron
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Category: Essays
Written in the form of letters to an aspiring artist, 'Letters to a Young Artist' includes Julia Cameron's hints on how to become an artist and encourage the creative flow. Full of exercises - she suggests, for example, writing 14 pages on anything every morning - and advice on an artist's approach to m ...Show more
Granta 90, Summer 2005 : Country Life - despatches from what's left by Ian Jack (ed)
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Category: Essays
Country Life: how it is lived, how it has changed, and how the changes are far from over Country Life: how it is lived, how it has changed, and how the changes are far from over. One of the world's oppositions used to be: country versus town, ale v claret, fields v houses, nature v artifice, starlight ...Show more
Civil Passions: Selected Writings by Martin Krygier
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Category: Essays
A collection of superbly readable pieces on politics and society, Australia and Eastern Europe by emininent Sydney law professor and Boyer lecturer, Martin Krygier.
Fifteen Kinds of Desire by Mandy Sayer
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Category: Essays
'Or at least there is a desire to become a smaller part of something larger in life, something that will take charge of you as though you were a child.' Richard Ford, WILDLIFE, from the epigraph to FIFTEEN KINDS OF DESIRE A young child is preyed upon by a molester - and turns the tables in a terrifying ...Show more
The Love of a Good Woman by Alice Munro
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Category: Essays
Alice Munro has a genius for entering the lives of ordinary people and capturing the passions and contradictions that lie just below the surface. In this brilliant new collection she takes mainly the lives of women - unruly, ungovernable, unpredictable, unexpected, funny, sexy and completely recognisabl ...Show more
Graham Greene - Collected Essays by Graham Greene
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Category: Essays
Collected Essays contains nearly eighty essays, reviews and occasional pieces composed between novels, plays and travel books over four prolific decades. From Henry James and Somerset Maugham to Ho Chi Minh and Kim Philby, the range of subjects is eclectic and stimulating; his subjects brought vividly t ...Show more