Quarterly Essay 58: Blood Year: Terror and the Islamic State by David Kilcullen
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Category: Essays | Series: Quarterly Essay
Last year was a "blood year" in the Middle East - massacres and beheadings, fallen cities, collapsed and collapsing states, the unravelling of a decade of Western strategy. We saw the rise of ISIS, the splintering of government in Iraq, and foreign fighters - many from Europe, Australia and Africa - flo ...Show more
Supermarket Monsters: the Price of Coles and Woolworths' Dominance: Redback by Malcolm Knox
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Category: Essays | Series: Redback Ser.
Down, down . . . In hardware, petrol, general merchandise and liquor, and above all in groceries, Coles and Woolworths jointly rule Australia's retail landscape. On average, every man, woman and child in this country spends $100 a week across their many outlets. What does such dominance mean for supplie ...Show more
Griffith Review 48: Enduring Legacies by Julianne Schultz
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Category: Essays | Series: Griffith REVIEW
'As a civil, pluralistic, liberal and democratic society, Australia did not pass the test of the crisis brought about by the war in Europe. The country suffered a setback in its political culture from which it did not recover until long after the next world war.' Gerhard Fische In the year that marks th ...Show more
The UnspeakableAnd Other Subjects of Discussion by Meghan Daum
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Category: Essays
In her celebrated 2001 collection, My Misspent Youth, Meghan Daum offered a bold, witty, defining account of the artistic ambitions, financial anxieties, and mixed emotions of her generation. The Unspeakable is an equally bold and witty, but also a sadder and wiser, report from early middle age. In M ...Show more
Theft by Hanif Kureishi
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Category: Essays
'I was beginning to love my thief, a man I barely knew, but whom I had trusted and even liked, and who had taken my savings, amongst many other crimes.' A bravura piece of very personal reportage by Hanif Kureishi about the man who stole his life savings. Nearing sixty and needing to plan for his and hi ...Show more
Something Special, Something Rare: Outstanding Short Stories by Australian Women by BLACK INC. (ED.)
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Category: Essays
Something Special, Something Rarepresents outstanding short fiction by Australia's finest female writers. These are tales of love, secrets, doubt and torment, the everyday and the extraordinary. A sleepy town is gripped by delusory grief after the movie being filmed there wraps and leaves. A lingering h ...Show more
Mistakes Were Made: Penguin Special by Liam Pieper
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Category: Essays | Series: Penguin Specials
Liam Pieper's made some poor life choices, but he's (usually) meant well. He's tried to write important stories, fight racial prejudice and rescue traumatised puppies. And he's ended up with life-threatening infestations, a punch in the face at a Leonard Cohen concert and brief detention by counter-terr ...Show more
Griffith Review 47 ; Looking West by Julianne Schultz
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Category: Essays | Series: Griffith Review Ser.
'Go west young man' has been a siren call in Australia, Canada and the US for centuries - a new frontier for them, yet already home to others for millennia. In Australia, the lure of bounty from mineral riches drew generations of fortune hunters to its western third. For some this was a stop on the road ...Show more
You're Just Too Good to be True (Penguin Special) by Sofija Stefanovic
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Category: Essays | Series: Penguin Specials
Sofija Stefanovic visits her eighty-year-old friend Bill and suspects he's being scammed over the internet - not for the first time. Compelled by Bill's devastating stories of online dating, heartbreak and bankruptcy, Sofija gets drawn into the underworld of romance scams. Her investigations take her to ...Show more
Read Harder by Ed Park
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Category: Essays
This volume collects the finest essays from the second half of the Believer's decade-long (and counting) run. The Believer, the McSweeney's-published four-time nominee for the National Magazine Award, is beloved for tackling everything from pop culture to ancient literature with the same sagacity and wi ...Show more
Discontent and Its Civilisations by Mohsin Hamid
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Category: Essays
From the author of the novels Moth Smoke, The Reluctant Fundamentalist and How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, here is an essential series of dispatches from the East, the West and the In Between. Divided into sections called 'Life', 'Politics' and 'Art', Discontents and its Civilizations collects th ...Show more
Essays & Lectures by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Category: Essays | Series: Library of America Ralph Waldo Emerson Edition Ser.
Our most eloquent champion of individualism, Emerson acknowledges at the same time the countervailing pressures of society in American life. Even as he extols what he called "the great and crescive self," he dramatizes and records its vicissitudes. Here are all the indispensable and most renowned works ...Show more