We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing
The highly acclaimed, provocative New York Times bestseller from the award-winning author of Americanah, "one of the world's great contemporary writers" (Barack Obama). In this personal, eloquently-argued essay--adapted from the much-admired TEDx talk of the same name--Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie offers ...Show more
Oppositions - Selected Essays by Mary Gaitskill
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing
A collection of provocative and searchingly analytical essays by the author of Bad Behavior, This is Pleasure, and Lost Cat.
A Man's Place by Annie Ernaux
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing
Annie Ernaux's father died exactly two months after she passed her exams for a teaching certificate. Barely educated and valued since childhood strictly for his labour, Ernaux's father had grown into a hard, practical man who showed his family little affection. Narrating his slow ascent towards material ...Show more
In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing by Elena Ferrante
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Category: 2022 03 March New Release
Reflections on reading and writing from the author of My Brilliant Friend. 'Elena Ferrante has established herself as the foremost writer in Italy - and the world.' - The Sunday Times A delightful collection of essays exploring reading and writing from the internationally acclaimed author of My Brilli ...Show more
On Passion (On Series) by Dorothy Porter
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing | Series: On Ser.
In On Passion celebrated Australian poet Dorothy Porter delves headfirst into the passions, both literary and earthly. We discover the young Dorothy Porter's 'drug of choice' was none other than romantic love and that 'some of the most deeply passionate experiences of [her] life happened between the cov ...Show more
Mothers, Fathers, and Others: New Essays by Siri Hustvedt
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing
'It is Hustvedt's gift to write with exemplary clarity of what is by necessity unclear.' Hilary Mantel, Guardian Feminist philosophy meets family memoir in a fresh essay collection by the award-winning essayist and novelist Siri Hustvedt, author of the bestselling What I Loved and Booker Prize-longliste ...Show more
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion by Jia Tolentino
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * "From The New Yorker's beloved cultural critic comes a bold, unflinching collection of essays about self-deception, examining everything from scammer culture to reality television."--Esquire "A whip-smart, challenging book."--Zadie Smith * "Jia Tolentino could be the Joan D ...Show more
Dear Ijeawele, Or A Feminist Manifesto In Fifteen Suggestion by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing
A powerful statement about feminism today from "one of the world's great contemporary writers" (Barack Obama), the author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists.A few years ago, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie received a letter from a childhood friend, a new mother who wanted to know how to raise her bab ...Show more
The Most of Nora Ephron: The ultimate anthology by Nora Ephron
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing
Packed with wit, wisdom and comfort, this is a whopping celebration of the late, great Nora Ephron, the iconic writer whose work continues to entertain and inspire millions. A revised edition with a brand new introduction from Candice Carty-Williams. 'The perfect introduction to the iconic writer' STYL ...Show more
Mothertongues by Eliza Bell & Ceridwen Dovey
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Category: 2022 04 April New Release
A genre-defying, collaborative marvel that brings the absurdity of motherhood to the page. After sharing their artistic frustrations at the school gate, Ceridwen Dovey and Eliza Bell decide to take a risk- to co-write a book about early motherhood. Off-colour, offbeat, off their heads, they begin - but ...Show more
The New York Times Book Review: 125 Years of Literary History by New York Times Times
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing
From the longest-running, most influential book review in America, here is its best, funniest, strangest, and most memorable coverage over the past 125 years.Since its first issue on October 10, 1896, The New York Times Book Review has brought the world of ideas to the reading public. It is the publicat ...Show more
Notes on Grief by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing
A devastating essay on loss and the people we love from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the bestselling author of Americanah and Half of a Yellow Sun. 'Grief is a cruel kind of education. You learn how ungentle mourning can be, how full of anger. You learn how glib condolences can feel. You learn how much gri ...Show more