Quarterly Essay 89: The Wires That Bind: Electrification and Community Renewal by Saul Griffith
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Category: Essays
A compelling vision of green energy at a local level. In this inspiring essay, inventor, engineer and visionary Saul Griffith looks at the wires that bind us. He reveals the world that awaits if we make the most of Australia's energy future. Griffith paints an inspiring yet practical picture of empower ...Show more
On Women: A New Collection of Feminist Essays from the Influential Writer, Activist and Critic, Susan Sontag by Susan Sontag
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Category: Essays
For the first time, On Women brings together Susan Sontag's most incisive and direct writing on womanhood. A brilliant new collection of essays on the oppression of women and the tools necessary for liberation from highly-acclaimed author Susan Sontag. Often regarded as one of the most influential write ...Show more
Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory by Janet Malcolm
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Category: Essays
The final work of one of the greatest non-fiction writers of the last century is a stunningly original memoir and a moving exploration of family history For decades, Janet Malcolm's books and dispatches for the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books poked and prodded at reportorial and biographica ...Show more
Credo: Selected Essays by Imants Tillers
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Category: Essays
Credo brings together essays from different stages in Imants Tillers’ career, from ‘Locality Fails’ to ‘Metafisica Australe’ and ‘Journey to Nowhere’, and closes with an essay written especially for the collection, ‘The Sources’, on the artists and writers he has drawn on in his art. These essays expres ...Show more
Politics and the English Language by George Orwell
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Category: Essays
George Orwell's essay examines the power of language to shape political ideas. It is about the importance of writing concisely, clearly and precisely and the dangers to our ability to think when language, especially political language, is obscured by vague, cliched phrases and hackneyed metaphors. In it ...Show more
Stranger Faces by Namwali Serpell
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Category: Essays | Series: Undelivered Lectures
National Book Critics Circle Award FinalistA New Yorker Best Book of 2020"Wise, warm, witty and dizzyingly wide-ranging."--The New York Times"Serpell's vital treatise is one readers will find themselves returning to again and again."--Publishers Weekly, Starred ReviewIf evolutionary biologists, ethical ...Show more
These Precious Days by Ann Patchett
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Category: Essays
'A heartfelt and witty collection of essays on everything from marriage and knitting to the inevitability of death' Guardian 'A pitch-perfect collection ... She can turn a sentence like no one else: her writing is clear, honest, witty, and just full of unsentimental humanity' Nigella Lawson 'Profound ...Show more
Animal Joy: A Book of Laughter and Resuscitation by Nuar Alsadir
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Category: Essays
Taking laughter's revelatory capacity as a starting point, and rooted in Nuar Alsadir's experience as a poet and psychoanalyst, Animal Joy is an ode to spontaneity and feeling alive.
12 Bytes: How artificial intelligence will change the way we live and love by Jeanette Winterson
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Category: Essays
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'Briskly and breezily, 12 Bytes joins the dots in a neglected narrative of female scientists, v ...Show more
The Faraway Nearby by Rebecca Solnit
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Category: Essays
From the author of Orwell's Roses, a personal, lyrical narrative about storytelling and empathy - a fitting companion to Solnit's A Field Guide to Getting Lost. Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. In this exquisitely written book by the author of A Paradise Built in Hell, Rebecca Sol ...Show more
Far and Away: The Essential A.A. Gill by A.A. Gill
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Category: Essays
A.A. Gill was an exceptional writer. Savage and compassionate in equal measure, he was always opinionated, always original, often surprising, and his writing illuminated from the page. This book, the second posthumous collection of his journalism, brings together pieces from near and far. He was feroci ...Show more
Signs and Wonders: Dispatches from a time of beauty and loss by Delia Falconer
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Category: Essays
The celebrated, Walkley Award-winning author on how global warming is changing not only our climate but our culture. Beautifully observed, brilliantly argued and deeply felt, these essays show that our emotions, our art, our relationships with the generations around us – all the delicate networks that ...Show more