Quarterly Essay 40: Trivial Pursuit: Leadership and the End of the Reform Era by George Megalogenis
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Category: Essays | Series: Quarterly Essay
In the aftermath of the 2010 election, George Megalogenis considers what has happened to politics in Australia. Have we entered a new phase with minority government and the rise of the Greens and independents? The Hawke, Keating and Howard years were ones of bold reform; recently we have seen an era of ...Show more
Half Empty by David Rakoff
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The inimitably witty David Rakoff, "New York Times "bestselling author of "Don't Get Too Comfortable," defends the commonsensical notion that you should always assume the worst, because you'll never be disappointed. In this deeply funny (and, no kidding, wise and poignant) book, Rakoff examines the rea ...Show more
The Annual Fiction Edition by Julianne Schultz
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Category: Essays | Series: Griffith Review
The second annual fiction collection will focus on the Pacific region: from the Americas to Asia, the Pacific islands, New Zealand and Australia. What binds us? What pulls us apart? As economic, political and cultural power moves from North America and Europe to the Asia-Pacific, Australia is enjoying a ...Show more
The Best Australian Essays 2010 by Robert Drewe
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'I wanted to showcase those subjects which thoughtful and talented Australian writers were absorbed by in this particular year; indeed (I thought), wouldn't it be good to show what this country, and its culture, was about in 2010?' - Robert Drewe This year's Best Australian Essaysoffers riveting snapsho ...Show more
Poisoned Pens: Literary Invective from Amis to Zola by Gary Dexter
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'With the single exception of Homer, there is no eminent writer, not even Sir Walter Scott, whom I can despise so entirely as I despise Shakespeare.' George Bernard Shaw From what Byron really thought of Keats to Salman Rushdie's savage put-down of John Le Carre, from Cocteau's damning view of Victor Hu ...Show more
At ...: Writing, Mainly About Art, from the London Review of Books by Peter Campbell
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For more than ten years, typographer and illustrator Peter Campbell has been the resident art critic for the London Review of Books, as well as serving as its resident designer since it began in 1979. Not easily characterized in professional terms, Campbell's writing thoughtful, jargon-free, and notably ...Show more
Poison Penmanship: The Gentle Art of Muckraking by Jessica Mitford
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Category: Essays
Jessica Mitford was a member of one of England's most legendary families (among her sisters were the novelist Nancy Mitford and the current Duchess of Devonshire) and one of the great muckraking journalists of modern times. Leaving England for America, she pursued a career as an investigative reporter a ...Show more
Scribble, Scribble, Scribble: Writing on Ice Cream, Obama, Churchill and My Mother by Simon Schama
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'Wednesday brought a pungent sheepy smell emanating from the greyish lamb and barley soup my mother optimistically called 'Taste of the Garden of Eden'. Expel me, please. Haddock in the air? That would be Thursday. The faintest whiff of roasting garlic? That would be what my sister and I uncharitably du ...Show more
What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures by Malcolm Gladwell
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Category: Essays
Malcolm Gladwell is the master of playful yet profound insight. His ability to see underneath the surface of the seemingly mundane taps into a fundamental human impulse: curiosity. From criminology to ketchup, job interviews to dog training, Malcolm Gladwell takes everyday subjects and shows us surprisi ...Show more
Granta 110 : Sex by John Freeman (Edited by)
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Category: Essays
Whether you are starved of it or steeped in it; embarrassed by it or emboldened by it; whether you commit it or omit it you can't get away from it. In this issue of "Granta" we talk about sex. Sex is our oldest obsession. For as long as we've been doing it, it has been used as a mark of decline and a me ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 37: What's Right? The Future of Conservatism in Australia by Waleed Aly
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What did George W. Bush and John Howard do to conservatism? In their wake, the conservative parties in the US and Australia seem to have lost their way. How did the Right in Australia end up in this place? How might it renew itself? This essay unravels the terms Right and Left, and discusses what a bett ...Show more
The Paris Review Interviews: vol. 4 by Philip Gourevitch
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Category: Essays
Here is the fourth collection of brilliant interviews to be gathered together, 'a bible both for readers and writers, the insider gossip for those who are truly passionate about their prose.' (Observer) With a new introduction by Salman Rushdie, this new edition makes indispensable reading for all thos ...Show more