Translating Myself and Others by Jhumpa Lahiri
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Category: Critical Thinking
Translating Myself and Others is a collection of disarmingly personal essays by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jhumpa Lahiri who reflects on her emerging identity as a translator as well as a writer in two languages. With subtlety and emotional immediacy. Lahiri draws on Ovid's myth of Echo and Narcissus ...Show more
Abandon Every Hope: Essays for the Dead by Hayley Singer
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Category: Critical Thinking
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
I Don't by Clementine Ford
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Category: Critical Thinking
Incendiary feminist and bestselling author Clementine Ford presents the inarguable case against marriage for the modern woman. Provocative, controversial and above all, compellingly and persuasively argued. I want this book to end marriages. But more importantly, I want it to prevent marriages. Women ...Show more
The Things We Live With: Essays on uncertainty by Gemma Nisbet
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Category: Critical Thinking
A meditation on the burden and joy of inheritance, and the strange power of the objects and keepsakes that connect us 'This is how I became interested in things. In their strange pull and power; in the ways they hold on to us and we to them.' After her father dies of cancer, Gemma Nisbet is inundated ...Show more
The Mirror and the Road: Conversations with William Boyd by William Boyd, Alistair Owen
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Category: Critical Thinking
'One of Britain's most celebrated contemporary novelists' Sunday TimesIn this probing series of exclusive interviews, Alistair Owen talks to William Boyd about his works and the life which has inspired them.The conversations which emerge are a deep-dive into film, art, theatre, literature and the life o ...Show more
Excitable Boy: Essays on Risk by Dominic Gordon
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Category: Critical Thinking
A wild ride through a disaffected youth by a gifted writer. Dominic Gordon explores his memories in tight prose bursting with insight, audacious ideas and dark humour. What happens to the adolescent spirit when all vestiges of innocence about the world are foregone, replaced within the grinding sounds ...Show more
On Peter Carey: Writers on Writers by Sarah Krasnostein
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Category: Critical Thinking
Award-winning writer Sarah Krasnostein shines new light on the impossibly vulnerable Ned Kelly of Peter Carey's True History of the Kelly Gang. Carey, who moved from Australia to America, conjured Kelly after seeing Sidney Nolan's paintings of the bushranger at the Met. In this moving essay Krasnostein, ...Show more
Kintsugi by Marie O'Rourke
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Category: Critical Thinking
These essays are a poignant reminder that some things cannot be fixed but can still hold immense beauty and meaning. All her life, Marie O'Rourke has been a Good Girl, a perfectionist, using words to apply golden seams to an imperfect life in an attempt to make something beautiful out of things that are ...Show more
Here be Monsters: Is Technology Reducing Our Humanity? by Richard King
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Category: Critical Thinking
Technology is developing fast — so fast that it threatens to overwhelm the very species whose genius lies in its technological cunning: us. From the metaverse to genetic engineering and mood-altering pharmaceuticals, to cybersex and cyberwar and the widespread automation of work, new technologies are re ...Show more
Taking A Long Look: Essays on Culture, Literature and Feminism in Our Time by Vivian Gornick
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Category: Critical Thinking
One of our most vital and incisive writers on literature, feminism, and knowing one's self For nearly fifty years, Vivian Gornick's essays, written with her characteristic clarity of perception and vibrant prose, have explored feminism and writing, literature and culture, politics and personal exper ...Show more
Lohrey by Julieanne Lamond
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Category: Critical Thinking
A guide to the world of Amanda Lohrey's fiction, and a meditation on what her writing has to say about contemporary life and how we live it.Amanda Lohrey is a fearless and idiosyncratic writer whose award-winning career spans four decades. Her work is experimental, political, intimate and compelling. Lo ...Show more
The Good Death Through Time by Caitlin Mahar
$35.00 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking
Can our forebears help us face complex questions of dying, now?' I have quite a bit of understanding of white man's ways, but it is difficult for me to understand this one.' ;An Australian Senate committee investigation of the Northern Territory's Rights of the Terminally Ill Act 1995, the first legisl ...Show more