The Last Days of Roger Federer: And Other Endings by Geoff Dyer
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
In this endlessly stimulating investigation into 'things coming to an end, artists' last works, time running out', Geoff Dyer sets his own encounter with late middle age against the last days and last achievements of writers, painters, athletes and musicians who've mattered to him throughout his life. ...Show more
People who Lunch: Essays on work, leisure and loose living by Sally Olds
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
This book is about working and not working, hating work and needing to work, intimacy and technology, money and love, labour and pleasure. Across a series of essays, Sally Olds probes the ambivalent utopias of polyamory, cryptocurrency, clubbing, communes, a secret fraternity, and the essay form itself. ...Show more
Space Crone by Ursula K. Le Guin
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
Collected for the first time celebrated author Ursula K. Le Guin’s writings on feminism and gender. Witness to the twentieth century’s rebellions and upheavals, including women’s liberation, the civil rights movement and anti-war and environmental activism, Le Guin continued to fight for social and envi ...Show more
In the Kitchen - Essays on food and life by Juliet Annan; Yemisi Aribisala; Laura Freeman; Joel Golby; Daisy Johnson; Rebecca May Johnson; Rebecca Liu; Nina Mingya Powles; Ella Risbridger
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
A collection to savour and inspire, In the Kitchen brings together thirteen contemporary writers whose work brilliantly explores food, capturing their reflections on their culinary experiences in the kitchen and beyond.
Me & Other Writing by Marguerite Duras (translated by Olivia Baes and Emma Ramadan )
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
A career-spanning collection of Marguerite Duras’s genre-bending essays that Kirkus calls a luminous, erudite exploration of the self and art. In her nonfiction as well as her fiction, Marguerite Duras’s curiosity was endless, her intellect voracious. Within a single essay she might roam from Flaubert t ...Show more
Griffith Review 84: Attachment Styles
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Series: Griffith Review Ser.
The attachments we form shape our experience of the world and our understanding of who we are. ‘Hell is other people', wrote Jean-Paul Sartre, his point being less about misanthropy and more about how entwined our self-perception is with the ways in which others perceive us. And alongside our personal r ...Show more
A Darker Shade: New Stories of Body Horror from Women Writers by Joyce Carol Oates
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
Joyce Carol Oates assembles an outstanding cast of authors - including Margaret Atwood, Raven Leilani, and Cassandra Khaw - to explore, subvert, and reinvent one of the most vital subgenres of horror 'Will burrow under your skin and live forever in your darkest dreams' Bust Joyce Carol Oates assembles ...Show more
Octavia E. Butler: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations by Octavia Estelle Butler
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
Octavia E. Butler's work broke innumerable barriers and helped open the field of science fiction to writers and readers it had never had before. As the first Black writer to win the coveted Nebula and Hugo Awards, her courage and vision left a peerless legacy for fans not just of science fiction, but of ...Show more
Povo by Adam Novaldy Anderson (Editor)
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
Thirty-seven writers from First Nations, migrant and refugee backgrounds reveal the true wealth and beauty of Australia’s cultural melting pots.Australia is often referred to as The Lucky Country — a land of economic opportunity and vast natural resources. But how does this myth square up against the tr ...Show more
Why Read by Will Self
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
From the Booker-shortlisted author of Umbrella, a world-girdling collection of writings inspired by a life lived in and for literature.
Collected Stories by Ben Rivers
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
Fiction and poetry have always been an essential source of inspiration for Ben Rivers' filmmaking. This title is a collection of stories, curated by the filmmaker himself, made in response to his films. The authors of these collected stories include Chloe Aridjis, Kevin Barry, Xiaolu Guo, Nathalie Léger ...Show more