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Intimations: Six Essays by Zadie Smith
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Category: Critical Thinking
Deeply personal and powerfully moving, a short and timely series of essays on the experience of lockdown, by one of the most clear-sighted and essential writers of our time From the critically acclaimed author of Feel Free, Swing Time, White Teeth and many more 'There will be many books written about ...Show more
Homo Irrealis by André Aciman
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Category: Critical Thinking
The bestselling author of Find Me and Call Me by Your Name returns to the essay form with this collection of thoughts on time, the creative mind, and great lives and works.
The Hard Crowd: Essays 2000-2020 by Rachel Kushner
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Category: Critical Thinking
A wildly original first essay collection from the bestselling, Booker Prize-shortlisted author of The Mars Room In her twenties Rachel Kushner went to Mexico in pursuit of her first love - motorbikes - to compete in the notorious and deadly race, Cabo 1000. As fellow racers died on the roadside, bikes ...Show more
Feline Philosophy: Cats and the Meaning of Life by John Gray
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Category: Critical Thinking
The history of philosophy has been a predictably tragic or comical succession of palliatives for human disquiet. Thinkers from Spinoza to Berdyaev have pursued the perennial questions of how to be happy, how to be good, how to be loved, and how to live in a world of change and loss. But perhaps we can l ...Show more
In the Land of the Cyclops Essays 1996-2013 by Karl Ove Knausgaard; Martin Aitken (Translator)
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Category: Critical Thinking
Karl Ove Knausgaard's My Struggle series broke new ground in fiction. In the Land of the Cyclops is his first collection of full-length essays to be published in English, and these brilliant and wide-ranging pieces meditate on themes familiar from his fiction. Collected here is a selection of his writin ...Show more
Lessons in Stoicism - What Ancient Philosophers Teach Us about How to Live by John Sellars
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Category: Critical Thinking
What aspects of your life do you really control? What do you do when you cannot guarantee that things will turn out in your favour? And what can Stoicism teach us about how to live together? In the past few years, Stoicism has been making a comeback. But what exactly did the Stoics believe? In Lessons ...Show more
Not a Novel : Collected Writings and Reflections by Jenny Erpenbeck
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Category: Critical Thinking
A collection of intimate and explosive essays on literature, life, history, politics and place from the award-winning author of Go, Went, Gone and The End of Days. Not a Novel gathers together the best of Jenny Erpenbeck's non-fiction. Drawing from her 25 years of thinking and writing, the book plots a ...Show more
How to Give - An Ancient Guide to Giving and Receiving by Seneca; James S. Romm (Edited and Translated by)
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers Ser.
Timeless wisdom on generosity and gratitude from the great Stoic philosopher Seneca To give and receive well may be the most human thing you can do--but it is also the closest you can come to divinity. So argues the great Roman Stoic thinker Seneca (c. 4 BCE-65 CE) in his longest and most searching mor ...Show more
On Charlatans by Chris Bowen
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: On Ser.
Chris Bowen, who was to be the next Treasurer has had plenty of time to think about what went wrong and why charlatans are winning in the game of politics. Why do we continue to vote for politicians who say, 'I don't hold a hose, mate,' or advocate we drink bleach to fight COVID? Or shut down pubs at 10 ...Show more
Women of a Certain Rage by Liz Byrski
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Category: Critical Thinking
Selected and introduced by Liz Byrski Contributors- Anne Aly, Nadine Browne, Nandi Chinna, Claire G. Coleman, Carrie Cox, Eva Cox, Sarah Drummond, Carly Findlay, Goldie Goldbloom, Rafeif Ismail, Margot Kingston, Jay Martin, Meg McKinlay, Olivia Muscat, Mihaela Nicolescu, Renee Pettitt-Schipp, Fiona Stan ...Show more
Three Rings - A Tale of Exile, Narrative, and Fate by Daniel Mendelsohn
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Page-Barbour Lectures
In this genre-defying book, best-selling memoirist and critic Daniel Mendelsohn explores the mysterious links between the randomness of the lives we lead and the artfulness of the stories we tell. Combining memoir, biography, history, and literary criticism, Three Rings weaves together the stories of t ...Show more
Mantel Pieces by Hilary Mantel
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Category: Critical Thinking
In 1987, when Hilary Mantel was first published in the London Review of Books, she wrote to the editor, Karl Miller, ‘I have no critical training whatsoever, so I am forced to be more brisk and breezy than scholarly.’ This collection of twenty reviews, essays and pieces of memoir from the next three dec ...Show more