Previous Convictions by A.A. Gill
$25.00 AUD
Category: Essays
A.A. Gill is probably the most read columnist in Britain. Every weekend he entertains readers of the Sunday Times with his biting observations on television and his unsparing, deeply knowledgeable restaurant reviews. Even those who want to hate him agree: A. A. Gill is hopelessly, painfully funny. He is ...Show more
The Best Australian Essays: 2005 by Robert Dessaix
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Category: Essays
A collection of essays, compiled by one of Australia's finest writers.
The Idea of Home: Autobiographical Essays by John Hughes
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Category: Essays
A collection of autobiographical essays in which John Huges reflects on growing up in Cessnock, in a household rules by memories of the Ukgraine, which his mother and grandparents had to flee during the Second World War.
Art of the Deal: Contemporary Art in a Global Financial Market by Noah Horowitz
$55.95 AUD
Category: Essays
Art today is defined by its relationship to money as never before. Prices of living artists' works have been driven to unprecedented heights, conventional boundaries within the art world have collapsed, and artists now think ever more strategically about how to advance their careers. Artists no longer s ...Show more
Making Trouble: Essays Against the New Australian Complacency by Robert Manne
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Category: Essays
As this eloquent and important book shows, no one in Australia makes a better argument than Robert Manne. This is a book that will enlighten and provoke. It covers much ground from Howard to Gillard by way of Rudd, from Victoria's bushfires to the Apology, from Wilfred Burchett to Primo Levi.
Against Remembrance by David Rieff
$19.99 AUD
Category: Political
In this searing and controversial polemic, esteemed American journalist David Rieff argues against our passion for the past. He looks at how memory serves nationalistic history every ANZAC Day and annual pilgrimage to Gallipoli, and at its worst, how memory of past horrors inflame deep-seated ethnic hat ...Show more
The Best Australian Essays: A Ten-Year Collection by Ramona Koval (Editor); Black Inc. Staff
$20.00 AUD
Category: Essays
The best of the best . . . This essential book takes a decade of Best Australian Essaysand selects the cream of the crop. These are the pieces that have captured key events - from September 11 to Victoria's fires - changed the way we see the nation, for good or ill - from Anzac Day to Palm Island - inve ...Show more
Essays on Muslims and Multiculturalism by Raimond Gaita
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Category: Essays
September 11 2001 marked a change in Australian attitudes towards immigrants. The spotlight was on Muslims. This collection of thought-provoking essays looks at multiculturalism's successes and failures in providing a secure, well-integrated, free and fair Australia. Philosopher and writer Raimond Gaita ...Show more
Meanjin 70.1 by Sophie Cunningham
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Category: Essays
In the March edition of Meanjin, Lorin Clarke investigates whether the Melbourne International Comedy Festival is as funny as it could be, Kate Holden considers the relationship between sex work and feminism, Laurie Steed tells us why YouTube is no longer the bad arse of the digital world, and many othe ...Show more
Working the Room - Essays and Reviews 1999-2010 by Geoff Dyer
$49.95 AUD
Category: Essays
A brilliant, wide-ranging collection of essays and journalism, spanning the photography of Martin Parr to the paintings of Turner, the writing of Scott-Fitzgerald to the criticism of Susan Sontag, and includes extensive personal pieces.
Griffith Review 31: Ways of Seeing by J. Schultz ( Edtor )
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Category: Essays
The big dilemmas of the day resist resolution. For decades we have relied on economics, science and the law for answers to pressing problems. But economics is not as rational as we hoped, science not as certain even the law has shades of grey beyond the black letters. Excluded from policy forums, belitt ...Show more
Believe in People: The Essential Karel Capek by John Carey
$32.99 AUD
Category: Essays
Playful and provocative, irreverent and inspiring, Capek is perhaps the best-loved Czech writer of all time. Novelist and playwright, famed for inventing the word 'robot' in his play "RUR", Capek was a vital part of the burgeoning artistic scene of Czechoslovakia of the 1920s and 30s. But it is in his j ...Show more