Lunch with the FT: 52 Classic Interviews by Lionel Barber
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Category: Essays
From film stars to politicians, tycoons to writers, dissidents to lifestyle gurus, Lunch with the FT is a selection of classic interviews conducted in the unforgiving proximity of a restaurant table. The list of people who have had Lunch with the FT since 1994 reads like an international Who's Who of ou ...Show more
Ballots Bullets and Kabulshit - An Afghan Election by Toby Ralph
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Category: Essays | Series: Penguin Specials
Toby Ralph, described as one of the 'most powerful spinners and advisers in Australia', joined a UN team to assist with preparations for Afghanistan's 2009 presidential elections. Ballots, Bullets and Kabulshit offers a rare glimpse into the chaos and danger of attempting to deliver democracy in a war z ...Show more
What W. H. Auden Can Do for You by Alexander McCall Smith
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Category: Essays | Series: Writers on Writers
When facing a moral dilemma, Isabel Dalhousie - Edinburgh philosopher, amateur detective, and title character of a series of novels by best-selling author Alexander McCall Smith - often refers to the great twentieth-century poet W. H. Auden. This is no accident: McCall Smith has long been fascinated by ...Show more
On Longing by Blanche D'Alpuget
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Category: Essays | Series: Little Books on Big Themes
Blanche d'Alpuget's intimate and revealing meditation on longing, examines the creative tension between writing and love.
Quarterly Essay 52: Found in Translation: In Praise of a Plural World by Linda Jaivin
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Category: Essays | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
Whether we're aware of it or not, we spend much of our time in this globalised world in the act of translation. Language is a big part of it, of course, as anyone who has fumbled with a phrasebook in a foreign country will know, but behind language is something far more challenging to translate: culture ...Show more
Personally: Further Notes on Life by Nikki Gemmell
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Category: Essays
Nikki Gemmell's columns in the AUSTRALIAN WEEKEND MAGAZINE have proved to be hugely popular, shrewdly observed and provocative. In PERSONALLY, she tackles a variety of subjects ranging from female bullying, tenderness, the urge to apologise and becoming an embarrassing parent, to celibacy and the tyrann ...Show more
The Kraus Project by Jonathan Franzen
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Category: Essays
A great American writer's confrontation with a great European critic - a personal and intellectual awakening. A hundred years ago, the Viennese satirist Karl Kraus was among the most penetrating and prophetic writers in Europe: a relentless critic of the popular media's manipulation of reality, the dehu ...Show more
Best American Essays 2013 by Edited by Cheryl Strayed
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Category: Essays | Series: Best American
Selected and introduced by Cheryl Strayed, the New York Times best-selling author of Wild and the writer of the celebrated column Dear Sugar, this collection is a treasure trove of fine writing and thought-provoking essays.
Stuff I've Been Reading by Nick Hornby
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Category: Essays
Stuff I've Been Reading by Nick Hornby - the bestselling novelist's rich, witty and inspiring reading diary. 'Read what you enjoy, not what bores you,' Nick Hornby tells us. And in this new collection of his columns from the Believer magazine (taking off where The Complete Polysyllabic Spree finished), ...Show more
A Country Too Far by Rosie Scott & Thomas Keneally
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Category: Essays
One of the central moral issues of our time is the question of asylum seekers, arguably the most controversial subject in Australia today. In this landmark anthology, twenty-seven of Australia's finest writers have focused their intelligence and creativity on the theme of the dispossessed, bringing a wh ...Show more
Dreaming Too Loud by Geoffrey Robertson, QC
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Category: Essays
Christopher Hitchens described Geoffrey Robertson as 'the greatest living Australian' and the satirical magazine Private Eye calls him 'an Australian who has had a vowel transplant'. Just before he was to cross-examine Princess Diana, the London Times complained that he was 'anti-establishment, republic ...Show more
Reports from a Turbulent Decade by No Author Supplied
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Category: Essays
Throughout a decade of remarkable change and upheaval, the Lowy Institute has discussed, dissected and analysed the big issues shaping global politics, and provided fresh policy ideas for Australian decision-makers. Ranked as Australia's leading think tank, the Lowy Institute provides high-quality resea ...Show more