A First Place by David Malouf
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Category: Literary Essays
A collection of personal essays and writing from David Malouf to celebrate his 80th birthday. Topography, geography, history. Multiculturalism, referendums, the constitution and national occasions. Parental and grandparental romances, the sensual and bountiful beauty of Brisbane, the mysterious offering ...Show more
A Hitch in Time: Writings from the London Review of Books by Christopher Hitchens
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Category: Literary Essays
An outstanding collection of some of the best pieces that Christopher Hitchens wrote for the London Review of Books. 'Revisiting this selection of diaries and essay-reviews from the London Review of Books is restorative, an extended spa treatment that stretches tired brains and unkinks the usual habitu ...Show more
A New Sublime - Ten Timeless Lessons on the Classics by Piero Boitani; Ann Goldstein (Translator)
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Category: Literary Essays | Reading Level: very good
Boitani's presentation of the classics is as entertaining and unexpected as it is informative. He invites the reader to discover the timeless beauty and wisdom of ancient literature, highlighting its profound and surprising connections to the present.
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: Literary 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
A World Without 'Whom': The Essential Guide to Language in the Buzzfeed Age by Emmy J. Favilla
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Category: Literary Essays
Eats, Shoots & Leaves for the internet age As language evolves faster than ever before, what is the future of `correct' writing? When Emmy Favilla was tasked with creating a styleguide for BuzzFeed, she opted for spelling, grammar and punctuation guidelines that would reflect how readers actually us ...Show more
ATTENTION: Dispatches from a Land of Distraction by Joshua Cohen
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Category: Literary Essays
Description: Rising star Joshua Cohen's first collection of essays, a fully realized work created from a selection of previously published and new nonfiction - essays, memoir, criticism, letters, diaries - covering an extraordinary array of topics: politics, literature, art, music, travel, the media, an ...Show more
Against Amazon: and Other Essays by Jorge Carrión
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Category: Literary Essays | Series: Biblioasis International Translation Ser.
Picking up where the widely praised Bookshops: A Reader's History left off, Against Amazon explores the increasing pressures of Amazon and other new technologies on bookshops and libraries. Collecting the author's essays on these vital social, cultural, and intellectual spaces, as well as his interviews ...Show more
Anthology of Japanese Literature: From the Earliest Erato the Mid-nineteenth Century by Donald Keene (ed.)
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Category: Literary Essays
The sweep of Japanese literature in its infinite variety and unusual beauty – from earliest times to the mid-nineteenth century – is the focus of this impressive volume. Every genre and style of Japanese literature, from the somber beauty of Noh plays to the eroticism of seventeenth century novels is in ...Show more
Apocalyptic Ruin and Everyday Wonder in Don Delillo's America by Michael Naas (Contribution by)
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Category: Literary Essays
Apocalyptic Ruin and Everyday Wonder in Don DeLillo's America is a fresh and engaging study of the "last things" in Don DeLillo's works-death, mourning, the last judgment of heaven and hell, the decline of the American empire, but also the apocalypse and the end of the world more generally. It is also a ...Show more
Ask Iwata: Words of Wisdom from Satoru Iwata, Nintendo's Legendary CEO by Hobonichi
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Category: Literary Essays
“On my business card, I am a corporate president. In my mind, I am a game developer. But in my heart, I am a gamer.” -Satoru Iwata Satoru Iwata was the former Global President and CEO of Nintendo and a gifted programmer who played a key role in the creation of many of the world&r ...Show more
Being There by David Malouf
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Category: Literary Essays
Words, music, art and performance. The stuff of a satisfying life. After exploring the idea of home, where and what it is in A First Place, what does it mean to be a writer and where writing begins in The Writing Life, David Malouf moves on to words and music and art and performance in Being There. With ...Show more
Big: The Role of the State in the Modern Economy by Richard Denniss
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Category: Literary Essays | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
Scott Morrison wants to spend a lot more money on defence, the business community wants more spending on infrastructure and education, an ageing population wants better health and aged care, and young Australians want more action on climate change and affordable housing. Each problem requires more publi ...Show more