Tone by Sofia Samatar; Kate Zambreno
$32.95 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
Tone is a collaborative study of literary tone, a notoriously challenging and slippery topic for criticism. Both granular and global, infusing a text with feeling, tone is so difficult to pin down that responses to it often take the vague form of "I know it when I see it." In Tone, a cooperative author ...Show more
Porn: An Oral History by Polly Barton
$32.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
A landmark work of oral history interrogating everything and anything related to porn. How do we talk about porn? Why it is that when we do talk about porn, we tend to retreat into the abstract? How do we have meaningful conversations about it with those closest to us? In Porn: An Oral History, her extr ...Show more
The Little Virtues by Natalia Ginzburg
$22.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Reading Level: very good
“As far as the education of children is concerned,” states Natalia Ginzburg in this collection of her finest and best-known short essays, “I think they should be taught not the little virtues but the great ones. Not thrift but generosity and an indifference to money; not caution but courage and a contem ...Show more
Dark Days (Mini Modern Classics) by James Baldwin
$2.50 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Series: Penguin Modern
So the club rose, the blood came down, and his bitterness and his anguish and his guilt were compounded'Drawing on his own experiences of prejudice in an America violently divided by race, James Baldwin's searing essays blend the intensely personal with the political to envisage a better world.
The White Album by Joan Didion
$19.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
An extraordinary report on the aftermath of the 1960s in America by the New York Times-bestselling author of South and West and Slouching Towards Bethlehem.In this landmark essay collection, Joan Didion brilliantly interweaves her own "bad dreams" with those of a nation confronting the dark underside of ...Show more
Voiceworks Magazine
$20.00 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
Voiceworks is a national quarterly journal that features exciting new writing and art by young Australians. It is a unique opportunity for people under twenty-five to publish their fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art and comics. Each selected piece goes through a collaborative editing process, and individu ...Show more
The Dead of Winter - Ten Classic Tales for Chilling Nights by Cecily Gayford (Editor)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Series: Vintage Murders Ser.
In the dead of winter, the veil between worlds is as thin as ice
Meanjin Vol 83, No 1
$24.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
Poetry is where Meanjin began, and Autumn 2024 is Meanjin's first with new Poetry Editor Jeanine Leane - be sure to include this issue in your collection! There's Tom Doig on 'Ten years on from Hazelwood- last decade's second-worst disaster'. Marcus Westbury reconfiguring capitalism in 'The agency and t ...Show more
Angry at Breakfast: Ten Years of Editorials from The Saturday Paper by Erik Jensen
$26.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
Some of Australia's best political writing- a dazzling chronicle from the editor of The Saturday Paper Drawn from the first ten years of The Saturday Paper, these editorials tell the story of a country in trouble. They are a penetrating account of the people who have led Australia, fusing character stu ...Show more
Kintsugi by Marie O'Rourke
$29.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
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
Oppositions - Selected Essays by Mary Gaitskill
$24.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
A collection of provocative and searchingly analytical essays by the author of Bad Behavior, This is Pleasure, and Lost Cat.