Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere by Christopher Hitchens
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Category: Essays
Unacknowledged Legislation is a celebration of Percy Shelley's assertion that 'poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world'. In over thirty magnificent essays on writers from Oscar Wilde to Salman Rushdie, and with his trademark wit, rigour and flair, master critic Christopher Hitchens dispels ...Show more
Very Good Lives : The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination by J. K. Rowling; Joel Holland (Illustrator)
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Category: Essays
J.K. Rowling, one of the world's most inspiring writers, shares her wisdom and advice. In 2008, J.K. Rowling delivered a deeply affecting commencement speech at Harvard University. Now published for the first time in book form, VERY GOOD LIVES presents J.K. Rowling's words of wisdom for anyone at a ...Show more
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 he shows us how it's done. From historical tomes to comic boo ...Show more
Scout, Atticus & Boo: A Celebration of to Kill a Mockingbird by Mary McDonagh Murphy
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Category: Essays
âe~You come away from Murphyâe(tm)s book with a renewed amazement at what Lee was able to achieve with a single perfect novelâe(tm) Entertainment Weekly First published in 1960, To Kill a Mockingbird is not only a beloved classic, but also a touchstone in literary and social history. This book commemo ...Show more
Solutions and Other Problems by Allie Brosh
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Category: Essays
Allie Brosh, the "gut-bustingly funny" (NPR), award-winning, and #1 New York Times bestselling author of Hyperbole and a Half, shares a new collection of autobiographical and illustrated essays. A Touchstone book. Touchstone has a great book for every reader.
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
By the Book - Writers on Literature and Literary Life from The New York Times Book Review by Pamela Paul
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Category: Essays | Reading Level: very good
Every Sunday, readers of The New York Times Book Review turn with anticipation to see which novelist, historian, short story writer, or artist will be the subject of the popular By the Book feature. These wide-ranging interviews are conducted by Pamela Paul, the editor of the Book Review, and here she b ...Show more
Between You and Me - Confessions of a Comma Queen by Mary Norris
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Category: Essays
The most irreverent and enjoyable book on language since Eats, Shoots and Leaves. Mary Norris has spent more than three decades guarding the New Yorker's grand traditions of grammar and usage. Now she brings her vast experience and sharpened pencil to help the rest of us, in a charming language book as ...Show more
So You've Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson
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Category: Essays | Reading Level: very good
From the Sunday Times top ten bestselling author of The Psychopath Test, a captivating and brilliant exploration of one of our world's most underappreciated forces: shame.'It's about the terror, isn't it?''The terror of what?' I said.'The terror of being found out.'For the past three years, Jon Ronson h ...Show more
How to Be Bored by Eva Hoffman
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Category: Essays | Series: The School of Life | Reading Level: very good
How to embrace boredom and find meaning in doing nothing. Lethargic inactivity can be debilitating and depressing; but for those living in the modern world, the pendulum has swung far in the other direction. We live in a hectic, hyperactive, over-stimulated age. Excessive busyness and overfilled schedul ...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