Abstracts and Brief Chronicles of the Time - I. Los, a Chapter by Hélene Cixous
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Category: Essays Language and Writing
Hélène Cixous has dreamed for years of "The Book-I-Don't-Write," but each time she approaches it, it withdraws. The-Book-I-Don't-Write is always just out of reach.When Jacques Derrida told her the Book would get written one day, but differently, Cixous tells us she would see it "shining behind a veil, i ...Show more
Against Interpretation And Other Essays by Susan Sontag
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Category: Essays Language and Writing | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'A dazzling intellectual performance' VogueAgainst Interpretation was Susan Sontag's first collection of essays and made her name as one of the most incisive thinkers of our time. Sontag was among the first critics to write about the intersection between 'high' and 'low' art forms, and to give them equa ...Show more
Albert Camus and the Human Crisis by Robert E. Meagher
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Category: Essays Language and Writing
A renowned scholar investigates the "human crisis" that Albert Camus confronted in his world and in ours, producing a brilliant study of Camus's life and influence for those readers who, in Camus's words, "cannot live without dialogue and friendship." As France--and all of the world--was emerging from t ...Show more
Alone: Reflections on Solitary Living by Daniel Schreiber
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Category: Essays Language and Writing
A book for our times: a moving meditation on the tension between loneliness and freedom, individualism and love. At no time before have so many people lived alone, and never has loneliness been so widely or keenly felt. Why, in a society of individualists, is living alone perceived as a shameful failure ...Show more
Animal Joy - A Book of Laughter and Resuscitation by Nuar Alsadir
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Category: Essays Language and Writing
Taking laughter's revelatory capacity as a starting point, and rooted in Nuar Alsadir's experience as a poet and psychoanalyst, Animal Joy is an ode to spontaneity and feeling alive.
Axiomatic by Maria Tumarkin
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Category: Essays Language and Writing
From the winner of the Windham Campbell Prize Winner of the Melbourne Prize for Literature’s Best Writing Award Shortlisted for the 2019 Stella Prize Shortlisted for the Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction in the 2019 NSW Premier's Literary Awards Longlisted for the 2019 Indie Book Awards for Non-Fict ...Show more
Black Marxism by Cedric J. Robinson
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Category: Essays Language and Writing
Any struggle must be fought on a people's own terms, argues Cedric Robinson's landmark account of Black radicalism. Marxism is a western construction, and therefore inadequate to describe the significance of Black communities as agents of change against 'racial capitalism'. Tracing the emergence of Euro ...Show more
Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon
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Category: Essays Language and Writing | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Few modern voices have had as profound an impact as Frantz Fanon. A major influence on civil rights, anti-colonial, and black consciousness movements around the world, Black Skin, White Masks is an unsurpassed study of the black psyche in a white world. Hailed for its scientific analysis and poetic grac ...Show more
Blurb Your Enthusiasm: An A-Z of Literary Persuasion by Louise Willder
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Category: Essays Language and Writing
'The bookiest book about books you'll ever read - I loved it' Lucy Mangan'Truly delightful...I couldn't have had more fun' Benjamin Dreyer'Very funny, erudite and profound. A delight!' Nina Stibbe This is the outside story of books. From blurbs to titles, quotes to (checks jacket) cute animal designs ...Show more
Books Promiscuously Read - Reading As a Way of Life by Heather Cass White
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Category: Essays Language and Writing
The critic and scholar Heather Cass White offers an exploration of the nature of reading Heather Cass White's Books Promiscuously Read is about the pleasures of reading and its power in shaping our internal lives. It advocates for a life of constant, disorderly, time-consuming reading, and encourage ...Show more
Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces 2004-2021 by Margaret Atwood
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Category: Essays Language and Writing
From cultural icon Margaret Atwood comes a brilliant collection of essays - funny, erudite, endlessly curious, uncannily prescient - which seek answers to Burning Questions such as; Why do people everywhere, in all cultures, tell stories? How much of yourself can you give away without evaporating? How c ...Show more
Chasing the Scream by Johann Hari
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Category: Essays Language and Writing
What if everything we've been told about addiction is wrong? One of Johann Hari's earliest memories is of trying to wake up one of his relatives and not being able to. As he grew older, he realised there was addiction in his family. Confused, he set out on a three-year, thirty-thousand mile journey to ...Show more