Cultural Solutions: Griffith REVIEW 44 by Julianne Schultz
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Category: Essays | Series: Griffith Review
Intractable social problems persist despite legal sanctions and economic incentives. It is time to try a new approach. The answer may lay in culture - using creativity, story telling and community engagement to motivate and inspire. Cultural Solutions documents the great success stories of lives and com ...Show more
Dissident Gardens by Jonathan Lethem
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Category: Essays
A dazzling novel from one of our finest writers--an epic yet intimate family saga about three generations of all-American radicals At the center of Jonathan Lethem's superb new novel stand two extraordinary women. Rose Zimmer, the aptly nicknamed Red Queen of Sunnyside, Queens, is an unreconstructed Com ...Show more
Shakespeare's Montaigne by Michel de Montaigne
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Category: Essays
Shakespeare, Nietzsche once wrote, was Montaigne's best reader. It is a typically brilliant Nietzschean insight, capturing the intimate relationship between the ever-changing record of the mutable self constituted by Montaigne's Essays and Shakespeare's kaleidoscopic register of human character. For all ...Show more
The Fun Stuff and Other Essays by James Wood
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Category: Essays
Following The Broken Estate, The Irresponsible Self, and How Fiction Works- books that established James Wood as the leading critic of his generation - The Fun Stuffconfirms Wood's pre-eminence, not only as a discerning judge but also as an appreciator of the contemporary novel. In twenty-three passiona ...Show more
Trials of Passion: Crimes in the Name of Love and Madness by Lisa Appignanesi
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Category: Essays
This book journeys into the heart of dark passions and the crimes they impel. When passion is in the picture, what is criminal, what sane, what mad or simply bad? Brighton, 1870: A well-respected spinster infuses chocolate creams with strychnine in order to murder her lover's wife. Paris, 1880: A popula ...Show more
Collected Prose by Paul Auster
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Category: Essays
The celebrated author of "The New York Trilogy", "Moon Palace" and "The Book of Illusions" presents here a highly personal collection of essays, prefaces and occasional pieces written for magazines and newspapers. Ranging in subject from Walter Raleigh to Kafka; Hawthorne to the high-wire artist Philipp ...Show more
The Baby Boom: How it Got That Way (And it Wasn't My Fault) (And I'll Never Do it Again) by P. J. O'Rourke
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Category: Essays
This is a hilarious look at the aging baby boomer generation from the author the Spectator labelled 'what happens when America does Grumpy Old Men'. The Baby Boom - over-sized, overwrought, overbearing, and all over the place, from Donovan to Obama. The generation that said with a straight face, 'We are ...Show more
A First Place by David Malouf
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Category: Essays
A collection of personal essays and writing from David Malouf to celebrate his 80th birthday. Topography, geography, history. Multiculturalism, referendums, the constitution and national occasions. Parental and grandparental romances, the sensual and bountiful beauty of Brisbane, the mysterious offering ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 53: That Sinking Feeling: Asylum Seekers and the Search for the Indonesian Solution by Paul Toohey
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Category: Essays | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
In Quarterly Essay 53, Paul Toohey looks at one of Tony Abbott's signature promises: to stop the boats. Has his government succeeded? If so, at what cost?In Java, Toohey observes asylum seekers heading for Australia and reports on the Indonesian response. He tells the stories of individual refugees, loo ...Show more
Pacific Highways: Griffith Review 43 by Lloyd Jones & Julianne Schultz (eds)
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Category: Essays | Series: Griffith Review
Migration, demographic changes and new cultural references are reshaping New Zealand. It is fast becoming a hub where Pacific and Tasman currents meet. As a result, New Zealand is changing, in response to surging tides of people and ideas. Pacific Highways explores and maps the new New Zealand, in the w ...Show more
One Way and Another - New and Selected Essays by Adam Phillips
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Category: Essays
One Way and Another is an affirmation of Adam Phillips' position as one of the most literary essayists today. With an introduction by John Banville. Throughout his brilliant career, Adam Phillips has lent a new and incisive dimension to the art of the literary essay, and in so doing revived the form for ...Show more
Lunch with the FT: 52 Classic Interviews by Lionel Barber
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Category: Essays
From film stars to politicians, tycoons to writers, dissidents to lifestyle gurus, Lunch with the FT is a selection of classic interviews conducted in the unforgiving proximity of a restaurant table. The list of people who have had Lunch with the FT since 1994 reads like an international Who's Who of ou ...Show more