Speaking from the Heart by Sally Morgan
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Category: Essays
Eighteen Aboriginal Australians from across the country each share a powerful story which is central to their own lives, and or to their family or community.
Quarterly Essay 60: Political Amnesia: How We Forgot How to Govern by Laura Tingle
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Category: Essays | Series: Quarterly Essay
Whatever happened to good government? What are the signs of bad government? And can Malcolm Turnbull apply the lessons of the past in a very different world? In this crisp, profound and witty essay, Laura Tingle seeks answers to these questions. She ranges from ancient Rome to the demoralised state of ...Show more
My Journey into the Heart of Terror: Ten Days in the Islamic State by Jurgen Todenhofer
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Category: Essays
An alarming and enlightening first-hand account of what's really going on behind the borders of the Islamic State. ISIS, IS, the Islamic State. The name is chilling. The images are horrific. This is a group that chops the heads off journalists - and yet one, the German Jurgen Todenhofer, went out of his ...Show more
The View from the Cheap Seats - Selected Non-Fiction by Neil Gaiman
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Category: Essays | Reading Level: very good
The View from the Cheap Seats draws together myriad non-fiction writing by international phenomenon and Sunday Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman. From Make Good Art, the speech that went viral, to pieces on artists and legends including Terry Pratchett and Lou Reed, the collection offers a glimpse in ...Show more
The Best Australian Essays 2016 by Geordie Williamson
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Category: Essays
In The Best Australian Essays 2016, Geordie Williamsoncurates the year's best non-fiction writing from Australia's finest writers. The result is a collection that reads as a wake-up call- from Jo Chandler on the devastating bleaching of the Great Barrier Reef and Richard Flanagan on the Syrian exodus to ...Show more
Why the Future is Workless : The Long, Slow Death of the Full-Time Job by Tim Dunlop
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Category: Essays
Even as the robots gather on the near horizon this book argues we have choices about the manner in which we greet them. A world without work as we know it could be a good thing. The landscape of work is changing right in front of us, from Uber, Airbnb and the new share economy to automated vehicles, 3D ...Show more
The Dog's Last Walk by Howard Jacobson
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Category: Essays | Reading Level: General Adult
Hilarious, heartbreaking, provocative and affecting - Howard Jacobson's irresistible journalism reveals the Man Booker Prize-winning novelist in all his humanity. From the tiniest absurdities to the most universal joys and desolations, Jacobson writes with a thunder, passion and wit unmatched. Just as d ...Show more
The Australian Face: Essays From the Sydney Review of Books by James Ley
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Category: Essays
The Sydney Review of Books is Australia's leading space for longform literary criticism. Now celebrating five years online, the SRB has published more than five hundred essays by almost two hundred writers. To mark this occasion, The Australian Face collects some of the best essays published in the SRB ...Show more
My Body by Emily Ratajkowski
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Category: Essays
A deeply honest investigation of what it means to be a woman and a commodity from Emily Ratajkowski, the archetypal, multi-hyphenate celebrity of our time. 'This is the book for every woman trying to place their body on the map of consumption vs control, and every woman who wants to better understand h ...Show more
The Smart Wife: Why Siri, Alexa, and Other Smart Home Devices Need a Feminist Reboot by Yolande Strengers; Jenny Kennedy
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Category: Essays
The life and times of the Smart Wife--feminized digital assistants who are friendly and sometimes flirty, occasionally glitchy but perpetually available. Meet the Smart Wife--at your service, an eclectic collection of feminized AI, robotic, and smart devices. This digital assistant is friendly and some ...Show more
The Jews of Ukraine: The Jewish Quarterly JQ 251 by Jonathan Pearlman
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Category: Essays
Stuff I've Been Reading by Nick Hornby
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Category: Essays
Stuff I've Been Reading by Nick Hornby - the bestselling novelist's rich, witty and inspiring reading diary. 'Read what you enjoy, not what bores you,' Nick Hornby tells us. And in this new collection of his columns from the Believer magazine (taking off where The Complete Polysyllabic Spree finished), ...Show more