The Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume I - 1940-1956 by Sylvia Plath; Peter K. Steinberg (Editor); Karen Kukil (Editor)
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing
Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) was one of the writers who defined the course of twentieth-century poetry. Her vivid, daring and complex poetry continues to captivate new generations of readers and writers. In the Letters, we discover the art of Plath's correspondence, most of which has never before been publ ...Show more
Known and Strange Things by Teju Cole
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing
Shortlisted for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award and the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay A blazingly intelligent first collection of essays from the award-winning author of Open City and Every Day Is for the Thief. With these pieces on politics, photography, travel, history and ...Show more
The Electric Kool-aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing
Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test ushered in an era of New Journalism, "An American classic" (Newsweek) that defined a generation. "An astonishing book" (The New York Times Book Review) and an unflinching portrait of Ken Kesey, his Merry Pranksters, LSD, and the 1960s.
On Aunty by Jonathan Holmes
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing
Australia?s public broadcaster, 'Aunty?, is about to turn 90, yet your ABC has seldom been in this much trouble- budget cuts, ferocious political pressure, sagging staff morale, leadership chaos and hostile commercial rivals. Meanwhile audiences are deserting broadcast TV and radio. What is the ABC?s pl ...Show more
On Artists by Ashleigh Wilson
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing
The #MeToo movement is overturning a cliche that has forgiven bad behaviour for years- to be creative is to be prone to eccentricity, madness, addiction and excess. No longer can artists be excused from the standards of conduct that apply to us all. But if we denounce the artist, then what becomes of th ...Show more
En Garde by Sarah Hanson-Young
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing
When Sarah Hanson-Young called out the abuse she received from male parliamentarians as slut-shaming, she sparked a national conversation about the rampant sexism in politics. Placing the responsibility on women to defend themselves is the same cheap trick as asking, why didn’t she just fight back? Afte ...Show more
On Mutiny by David Speers
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing
Why was Malcolm Turnbull removed and how did Scott Morrison emerge as Australia?s thirtieth prime minister?On Mutinyis the inside story, a blow-by-blow expose of the plotting, double dealing and numbers game by politicians in the most brutal period in Australian politics since the Dismissal. If we reall ...Show more
En Route by Juliana Engberg
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing
It's almost impossible to get lost these days; the fastest and most direct route arrives with the press of a few keys. But what of the joys of unexpected discoveries off the grid?En Route is an ode to wandering through time and place, meeting personalities with no fixed addresses. Assisted by her GPS or ...Show more
On Patriotism by Paul Daley
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing
How has militarisation come to define Australian valour? Why has commemorating the centenary of World War I dominated our sense of patriotism?On Patriotismexplores what it really means to love and serve your country. Paul Daley contemplates ways to escape the cultural binds that tie us to Anzac, British ...Show more
On Rage by Germaine Greer
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing
On Rageis Germaine Greer's enduring essay about Aboriginal dispossession. With characteristic acuity and passion, Greer looks to the causes of rage and its consequences in Indigenous Australian men. Originally published six months after Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's Apology to the Stolen Generations in ...Show more
On Sleep by Fleur Anderson
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing
On Sleepis the story of our love-hate relationship with slumber. Part-time insomniac Fleur Anderson ponders the big questions- Why can't I sleep? Do politicians and other high-fliers ever admit they too are exhausted? Do they get enough sleep to make sensible decisions? Where is society heading, and why ...Show more
On Passion by Dorothy Porter
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing | Series: Little Books on Big Themes
"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