Mouth Full of Blood: Essays, Speeches, Meditations by Toni Morrison
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing
A vital new non-fiction collection from one of the most celebrated and revered writers of our timeSpanning four decades, these essays, speeches, and meditations interrogate the world around us. They are concerned with race, gender and globalisation. The sweep of American history and the current state of ...Show more
Mouth Full of Blood: Essays, Speeches, Meditations by Toni Morrison
$35.00 AUD
Category: Essays, Language & Writing
A vital new non-fiction collection from one of the most celebrated and revered writers of our time.‘Word-work is sublime, she thinks, because it is generative; it makes meaning that secures our difference, our human difference—the way in which we are like no other life. We die. That may be the meaning o ...Show more
Whose Story Is This? Old Conflicts New Chapters by Rebecca Solnit
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing
Who gets to shape the narrative of our times? The current moment is a battle royale over that foundational power, one in which women, people of color, non-straight people are telling other versions, and white people and men and particularly white men are trying to hang onto the old versions and their ow ...Show more
Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises (and Essays) by Rebecca Solnit
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing
In this powerful and wide-ranging collection of essays, Rebecca Solnit turns her attention to the war at home. This is a war, she says, "with so many casualties that we should call it by its true name, this war with so many dead by police, by violent ex-husbands and partners and lovers, by people pursui ...Show more
An Editor's Burial: Journals and Journalism from the New Yorker and Other Magazines by Wes Anderson, David Brendel
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing
Inspirations for Wes Anderson's The French Dispatch- fascinating essays on the expatriate experience in Paris by some of the twentieth century's finest writers. A glimpse of post-war France through the eyes and words of 14 (mostly) expatriate journalists including Mavis Gallant, James Baldwin, A.J. Lieb ...Show more
In Search of Lost Books - The Forgotten Stories of Eight Mythical Volumes by Giorgio Van Straten; Simon Carnell (Translator); Erica Segre (Translator)
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing
The gripping and elegiac stories of eight lost books, and the mysterious circumstances behind their disappearances. They exist as a rumour or a fading memory. They vanished from history leaving scarcely a trace, lost to fire, censorship, theft, war or deliberate destruction, yet those who seek them ...Show more
Letters of Note - Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience by Shaun Usher
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing
Letters of Note is a collection of over one hundred of the world's most entertaining, inspiring and unusual letters, based on the seismically popular website of the same name - an online museum of correspondence visited by over 70 million people. From Virginia Woolf's heart-breaking suicide letter, to Q ...Show more
Long Live Latin (Viva il Latino): The Pleasures of a Useless Language by Nicola Gardini
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing
Virgil gave us the Aeneid, and Ovid the Metamorphoses; Lucretius analysed the material world and Caesar interrogated how we view reality through the lens of reason - but what does Latin offer us today?Often seen as the bulky relic of school curricula long forgotten, Latin seems to have lost its punch in ...Show more
The Moth: Occasional Magic - True Stories of Defying the Impossible by Catherine Burns, and The Moth
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing
Before television and radio, people would gather on porches, on the steps outside their homes, and tell stories. Their bewitched listeners would sit and listen long into the night as moths flitted around overhead. Storytelling phenomenon The Moth recaptures this lost each week in cities across America, ...Show more
Balance and Other B.S by Felicity Harley
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing
When having it all becomes doing it all: a guide to mastering the mental load. Feeling overwhelmed is just part of the deal, right? *breathes into a paper bag*.' - Turia Pitt'The woman still shoulders the lion's share of all the other unpaid work required. She pays a high price for this . . .' - Jane Ca ...Show more
Beauty by Bri Lee
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing
A powerful meditation on beauty and body image from the author of Eggshell Skull. You were either fit and trim or you weren't working hard enough. Your body was how you conveyed wealth and status to your peers, it was a personality trait, a symbol of goodness and values: an ethical ideal. In recent dec ...Show more
The Details: On Love, Death and Reading by Tegan Bennett Daylight
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing
In this deeply intimate and insightful work, Daylight describes how her rich storehouse of reading has nourished her life, and how her life informs her reading. In both, she shows us that it's the small points of connection - the details - that really matter: what we see when someone close to us dies, w ...Show more