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 ext ...Show more
Not to Read by Alejandro Zambra; Megan McDowell (Translator)
$27.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
Over the course of the chronicles and literary essays that make up this volume, Alejandro Zambra outlines his own particular theory of reading. Whether it is in the course of a carefully considered commentary on a specific book, or in the digressions born out of a piece on this or that author - from Par ...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
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.
The Best American Essays 2023 by Vivian Gornick; Robert Atwan
$37.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Series: Best American Ser.
In her introduction to this year's The Best American Essays, guest editor Vivian Gornick states that her selections "contribute materially to the long and honorable history of the personal essay by way of the value they place on lived experience." Provocative, daring, and honest at a time when many wr ...Show more
You Don't Know Us Negroes and Other Essays by Zora Neale Hurston; Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Introduction by); Genevieve West (Editor)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK FROM: Oprah Daily, Business Insider, Marie Claire, The Seattle Times, Lit Hub, Bustle, and New York Magazine's Vulture Introduction by New York Times bestselling author Henry Louis Gates Jr. Spanning more than 35 years of work, the first comprehensive collection of essays, critic ...Show more