2022: Reckoning with Power and Privilege by The Conversation, Michael Hopkin (ed.)
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Category: Essays / Short Stories
As 2022 unfolded, we saw power manifest in its various guises: Russia's brutal invasion of Ukraine in February 2022; the COVID pandemic and its international disruptions continued to shape lives globally and abortion laws changed monumentally in the US. In Australia, the power of voters changed the gove ...Show more
Walden by Henry Thoreau; Terry Tempest Williams (Foreword by)
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Category: Essays / Short Stories | Series: Shambhala Pocket Library
In July 1845, Henry David Thoreau built a small cottage in the woods near Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts. During the two years and two months he spent there, he began to write Walden, a chronicle of his communion with nature that became one of the most influential and compelling books in American ...Show more
Resilience: A Celebration of Poetry, Fiction and Essays From Mascara Literary Review by Michelle Cahill, Monique Nair, Anthea Yang
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Category: Essays / Short Stories
Resilience looks upwards to the ever-changing, ever-present skies, where fingers and fist touch the horizon. Resilience is often deeply imagined and hard won. Resilience, by turn, is fervent, supple, rhizomatic, generative. Like the beguiling evenness of an orchid, resilience is enduring and delicate. T ...Show more
Requiem for a Dream by Hubert Selby, Hubert Selby Jr, Hubert Selby Jr.
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Category: Essays / Short Stories | Series: HS
Harry Goldfarb, heroin addict and son of lonely widow Sara, cares only about enjoying the good life with girlfriend Marion and best friend Tyrone C Love, and making the most of all the hash, poppers and dope they can get. Sara Goldfarb sits at home with the TV, dreaming of the life she could have and st ...Show more
The Long Weekend by Judy Nunn
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Category: Essays / Short Stories
A captivating collection of six stories from Australia's master storyteller Judy Nunn.The Long Weekend Tracy, Eve, Jet, Mel and Danielle are looking forward - if a little nervously - to their upcoming digital detox. No phones, no laptops - just a quiet weekend in a remote mountain shack. What could go w ...Show more
The Joy of Small Things by Hannah Jane Parkinson
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Category: Essays / Short Stories
Drawn from the popular Guardian column these everyday exultations and inspirations will get you through dismal days.Hannah Jane Parkinson is a specialist in savouring the small pleasures of life. She revels in her fluffy dressing gown ('like bathing in marshmallow'), finds calm in solo cinema trips, is ...Show more
When You're Ready, This Is How You Heal by Brianna Wiest
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Category: Essays / Short Stories
Healing is not a one-time event. It can begin with a one-time event - typically some form of sudden loss that disrupts our projection of what the future might be. However, the true work of healing is allowing that disruption to wake us from a deep state of unconsciousness, to release the personas we ada ...Show more
Abominations - Selected Essays From a Career of Courting Self-Destruction by Lionel Shriver
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Category: Essays / Short Stories | Reading Level: very good
A masterful collection from one of the most acclaimed writers of our time. Abominations: Selected essays from a career of courting self-destruction showcases Lionel Shriver's relentlessly sceptical and deeply insightful thoughts on our contemporary era. Uniting essays from the Spectator, New York Times, ...Show more
The Penguin Book of Spanish Short Stories by Various
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Category: Essays / Short Stories
This exciting new collection celebrates the Spanish short story, from its modern origins in the nineteenth century to the remarkable work being written today. Featuring over fifty stories selected by revered translator Margaret Jull Costa, it blends hidden gems and old favourites, surprising new voices ...Show more
What Makes an Apple?: Six Conversations about Writing, Love, Guilt, and Other Pleasures by Amos Oz
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Category: Essays / Short Stories
In the last years of his life, the writer Amos Oz talked regularly with Shira Hadad, who worked closely with him as the editor of his final novel, Judas. These candid, uninhibited dialogues show a side of Oz that few ever saw. What Makes an Apple? presents the most revealing of these conversations in En ...Show more
An Exciting and Vivid Inner Life by Paul Dalla Rosa
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Category: Essays / Short Stories
Oscillating between elation and despair, An Exciting and Vivid Inner Life is the debut short story collection from the award-winning Paul Dalla Rosa. 'How can these stories be so funny, dazzling, deep and dark? This is a sharp collection that will grip you with strange force; the people here are despera ...Show more
The Amis Collection: Selected Non-fiction by Kingsley Amis
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Category: Essays / Short Stories
A collection of witty, cantakerous essays skewering the cultural touchstones of an era, from one of the greatest writers, drinkers and critics of our timeWhat advice can one give a green young author? What purpose do literary prizes serve? Where on earth can a man get a decent bite to eat? This entertai ...Show more