All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess by Becca Rothfeld
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Category: Essays
What is the relationship between Marie Kondo and many modern novels? Why do we get addicted to stories - particularly when they're about serial killers? Seven years after #metoo, how can we have the sex we really want? Is it ok to think Troll 2 is a good film? In All Things Are Too Small, virtuoso ...Show more
Beneath the Surface of Things: New and Selected Essays by Wade Davis
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Category: Essays
'Wade Davis is a true wayfinder, and these essays offer new insight into his visionary approach to culture, landscape, and the planet he loves as fiercely as any writer working today.' John Vaillant, author of Fire WeatherThe essays in this collection came about during the unhurried mo ...Show more
Best Laid Plans: A Lowy Institute Paper: Penguin Special: The Inside Story of Reform in Aung San Suu Kyi's Myanmar by Sean Turnell
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Category: Essays
Best laid Plans is a unique first-hand account of the radical economic reforms implemented in Myanmar under the ill-fated civilian government of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi. These reforms, designed both to turn around Myanmar's dire economy and lay the economic foundations for democracy, were brought to a dram ...Show more
Die Hot with a Vengeance - Essays on Vanity by Sable Yong
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Category: Essays
Journalist and former Allure editor Sable Yong debuts with a sharp-toothed and hilarious essay collection about beauty and vanity, examining their stigmatization in the cultural zeitgeist, and how to shift the focus to use both for powerful tools for self-exploration, interpersonal connection, and cultu ...Show more
Griffith Review 85: Status Anxiety by Carody Culver (Editor)
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Category: Essays | Series: Griffith Review Ser.
Like the answer to a riddle, status is all around us, but it can’t always be seen or heard. The silent switchboard behind our professional and personal interactions, status dictates our place on the guest list, in the room, at the table; through its connections to class, race and gender, it affords some ...Show more
Just Friends: On the Joy, Influence and Power of Friendship by Gyan Yankovich
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Category: Essays
Voice memos, care packages, hours-long phone conversations, treasured traditions that go back decades, glasses held aloft during wedding toasts, hands held at funerals, first cuddles with newborns, work lunches with work wives, taking it to the group chat - our friendships touch and enrich every part of ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 93: Bad Cop: Peter Dutton's Strongman Politics by Lech Blaine
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Category: Essays
Where will Dutton lead the Coalition? A portrait of Peter Dutton, as well as a modern interrogation of the Australian suburbs and the people who live there. 2022 saw the splintering of the Liberal Party's electoral coalition. Influential conservatives have urged Peter Dutton to forget about the seats l ...Show more
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain (In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading and Life) by George Saunders
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Category: Essays
From the New York Times bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth of December comes a literary master class on what makes great stories work and what they can tell us about ourselves - and our world today. For the last twenty years, George Saunders has been teaching a c ...Show more
Abandon Every Hope: Essays for the Dead by Hayley Singer
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Category: Essays
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
Abominations - Selected Essays from a Career of Courting Self-Destruction by Lionel Shriver
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Category: Essays
The first essay collection from one of the most acclaimed writers of our time.'This trenchant, unrepentant collection reminds you that she's a brilliant writer... Order a copy in case she's cancelled by Christmas' THE TIMES (Book of the Year)'You may disagree with Lionel Shriver's bracing journalism, bu ...Show more
Admissions: Voices within mental health by David Stavanger, Radhiah Chowdhury, Mohammad Award
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Category: Essays
An unprecedented look at the lived experience of mental health in creative work, as told by writers, comedians and public figures We are full of worlds that can't be contained by a pill.This groundbreaking collection documents the state of mental health in Australia, foregrounding a wide range of voice ...Show more
Conversations on Love: with Philippa Perry, Dolly Alderton, Roxane Gay, Stephen Grosz, Esther Perel, and many more by Natasha Lunn
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Category: Essays
*THE TOP 10 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*'This book might just change your life' Sunday Times'Wise, wonderful, moving and brilliant... will leave your heart in a much better place' StylistAfter years of feeling that love was always out of reach, journalist Natasha Lunn set out to understand how relationships ...Show more