How the World Works by Noam Chomsky
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Category: Essays
The essential introduction to Chomsky's political ideasWith exceptional clarity and power of argument, Noam Chomsky lays bare as no one else can the realities of contemporary geopolitics. Divided into four sections and originally published in the US as individual short books which have collectively sold ...Show more
A Guest at the Feast by Colm Toibin
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Category: Essays
A Guest at the Feast uncovers the places where politics and poetics meet, where life and fiction overlap, where one can be inside writing and also outside of it. From the melancholy and amusement within the work of the writer John McGahern to an extraordinary essay on his own cancer diagnosis, Tóibín de ...Show more
The AMIA Bombing: Jewish Quarterly 252: An Attack on Argentina's Jewish Centre in 1994 Killed 85 People. It Remains Unsolved. Why? by Jonathan Pearlman
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Category: Essays
This issue of The Jewish Quarterly examines the unresolved questions and political intrigue surrounding the AMIA bombing - a terrorist attack that destroyed the Jewish community centre building in Buenos Aires in 1994, leaving eighty-five people dead and hundreds wounded. None of the culprits has ever b ...Show more
Fratriarchy: The Sibling Trauma and the Law of the Mother by Juliet Mitchell
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Category: Essays
In Fratriarchy, Juliet Mitchell expands her ground-breaking theories on the sibling trauma and the Law of the Mother. Writing as a psychoanalytic practitioner, she shows what happens from the ground up when we use feminist questions to probe the psycho-social world and its lateral relations. 1. The new ...Show more
Ivrit: The Language That Makes a People: Jewish Quarterly 253 by Jonathan Pearlman
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Category: Essays
This issue of The Jewish Quarterly explores the remarkable evolution and revival of Hebrew - a language whose trajectory charts the recent history of the Jewish people. In this ground-breaking essay, award-winning writer Ben Judah explores the crucial role of modern Hebrew in defining and reshaping the ...Show more
Ways of Being - Animals, Plants, Machines - The Search for a Planetary Intelligence by James Bridle
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Category: Essays | Reading Level: very good
Artist, technologist, and philosopher James Bridle's Ways of Being is a brilliant, searching exploration of different kinds of intelligence--plant, animal, human, artificial--and how they transform our understanding of humans' place in the cosmos. What does it mean to be intelligent? Is it something uni ...Show more
Facts and Other Lies: Welcome to the Disinformation Age by Ed Coper
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Category: Essays
From fringe conspiracy theories to 'alternative facts', a timely look at how we arrived in the 'fake news' era. Would your younger self, even from a few years ago, believe the news of today? An entire block of a major city blown up by a suicide bomber on Christmas Day because he believed phone towers s ...Show more
Women & Power: A Manifesto by Mary Beard
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Category: Essays
An updated edition of the Sunday Times Bestseller. Britain's best-known classicist Mary Beard, is also a committed and vocal feminist. With wry wit, she revisits the gender agenda and shows how history has treated powerful women. Her examples range from the classical world to the modern day, from Medus ...Show more
True Stories: The Collected Short Non-Fiction by Helen Garner
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Category: Essays
Helen Garner visits the morgue, and goes cruising on a Russian ship. She sees women giving birth, and gets the sack for teaching her students about sex. She attends a school dance and a gun show. She writes about dreaming, about turning fifty, and the storm caused by The First Stone. Her stories on the ...Show more
The Architecture of Happiness by Alain de Botton
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Category: Essays
One of the great, but often unmentioned, causes of both happiness and misery is the quality of our environment: the kind of walls, chairs, buildings and streets we're surrounded by. And yet a concern for architecture and design is too often described as frivolous, even self-indulgent. The Architecture o ...Show more
The Fran Lebowitz Reader (PB) by Fran Lebowitz
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Category: Essays | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
Acerbic, wisecracking and hilarious, this is the definitive essay collection from New York legend and satirist, Fran Lebowitz, star of Martin Scorsese's hit Netflix series, Pretend It's a City.'The gold standard for intelligence, efficiency and humour. Now and forever' DAVID SEDARIS'She's inexhaustible ...Show more
People who Lunch: Essays on work, leisure and loose living by Sally Olds
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Category: Essays
This book is about working and not working, hating work and needing to work, intimacy and technology, money and love, labour and pleasure. Across a series of essays, Sally Olds probes the ambivalent utopias of polyamory, cryptocurrency, clubbing, communes, a secret fraternity, and the essay form itself. ...Show more