The Mother of All Questions: Further Feminisms by Rebecca Solnit
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing
In a timely and incisive follow-up to her national bestseller Men Explain Things to Me, Rebecca Solnit offers sharp commentary on women who refuse to be silenced, misogynistic violence, the fragile masculinity of the literary canon, the gender binary, the recent history of rape jokes, and much more.In h ...Show more
Quietly Hostile by Samantha Irby
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Wow, No Thank You. This is not an advice book. Samantha Irby doesn't know anything. Irby is working in Chicago when the pandemic hits. After fleeing the city and returning home to Michigan, she finds herself bleaching groceries and wondering if her uppe ...Show more
The Trial of Henry Kissinger by Christopher Hitchens
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing
Drawing on first-hand testimony, previously unpublished documentation and broad sweeps through material released under the Freedom of Information Act, Christopher Hitchens mounts a devastating indictment of a man whose ambition and ruthlessness, he alleges, have directly resulted in both individual murd ...Show more
Write for Life: A Toolkit for Writers by Julia Cameron
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing
The essential guide to writing by the Queen of Creativity, Julia Cameron Legendary author of The Artist's Way Julia Cameron has pioneered the field of creative recovery, inspiring millions of people around the world to discover their true creative selves. Now in Write for Life, the 'Queen of Creativity' ...Show more
Abandon Every Hope: Essays for the Dead by Hayley Singer
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing
Abandon Every Hope mournfully investigates the literatures of the slaughterhouse and a world motivated by profitable death, to ultimately ask- where does this horror begin and how can it end?;Can anyone smell the suffering of souls? Of sadness, of hell on earth? Hell, I imagine, has a smell that bloats ...Show more
Two Besides: A Pair of Talking Heads by Alan Bennett, Alan Bennett
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing
Two brand new monologues in the Talking Heads series, published here for the first time.
Letters of Note: Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience by Shaun Usher
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing
Letters of Note, the book based on the beloved website of the same name, became an instant classic on publication in 2013, selling hundreds of thousands of copies. This new edition sees the collection of the world's most entertaining, inspiring and unusual letters updated with fourteen riveting new miss ...Show more
The Luminous Solution: Creativity, Resilience and the Inner Life by Charlotte Wood
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing
An inspiring work about creativity and resiliance from the multi-award-winning author of The Weekend. 'A rich inner life is not just the preserve of the arts. The joys, fears and profound self-discoveries of creativity - through making or building anything that wasn't there before, any imaginative explo ...Show more
The Book of Difficult Fruit: Arguments for the Tart, Tender, and Unruly by Kate Lebo
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing
'A beautiful, fascinating read full of surprises – a real pleasure.' Claudia Roden '[A] glorious mash-up of memoir, love note, and cookbook . . . Every sentence is as sensuous as the first bite into a cold, juicy plum.' Vulture Inspired by twenty-six fruits, essayist, poet and pie lady Kate Lebo expert ...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
Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020 by Salman Rushdie
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing
Languages of Truth offers Salman Rushdie's most piercingly analytical views yet on the evolution of literature and culture even as he takes us deep into his own exuberant and fearless imagination. Salman Rushdie is celebrated as a storyteller of the highest order, illuminating deep truths about our soci ...Show more
Between You and Me - Confessions of a Comma Queen by Mary Norris
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Category: Essays, Language & Writing
The most irreverent and enjoyable book on language since Eats, Shoots and Leaves. Mary Norris has spent more than three decades guarding the New Yorker's grand traditions of grammar and usage. Now she brings her vast experience and sharpened pencil to help the rest of us, in a charming language book as ...Show more