On Sleep by Fleur Anderson
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Category: Essays
On Sleepis the story of our love-hate relationship with slumber. Part-time insomniac Fleur Anderson ponders the big questions- Why can't I sleep? Do politicians and other high-fliers ever admit they too are exhausted? Do they get enough sleep to make sensible decisions? Where is society heading, and why ...Show more
Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
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Category: Essays | Reading Level: very good
'Pink is my favourite colour. I used to say my favourite colour was black to be cool, but it is pink - all shades of pink. If I have an accessory, it is probably pink. I read Vogue, and I'm not doing it ironically, though it might seem that way. I once live-tweeted the September issue.' In these funny a ...Show more
The Moth: This Is a True Story by Catherine Burns, The Moth
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Category: Essays
Pull up an easy chair and settle into the most spell-binding collection of real stories you will ever read, from ordinary people and established writers including Malcolm Gladwell, Sebastian Junger and Nathan Englander. Introduced by Neil Gaiman
And Yet... Essays by Christopher Hitchens
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Category: Essays | Reading Level: good-very good
Christopher Hitchens was an unparalleled, prolific writer, who raised the polemical essay to a new art form, over a lifetime of thinking and debating the defining issues of our times. As an essayist he contributed to the New Statesman, Atlantic Monthly, London Review of Books, TLS and Vanity Fair. Any p ...Show more
Choice Words: A collection of writing about abortion by Louise Swinn
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Category: Essays
Edited by Louise Swinn, Choice Words is a timely collection of stories, essays, rants and raves from high profile women that seeks to demystify abortion and its surrounding stigma.
Blindness: October 7 and the Left - Jewish Quarterly 256 by Hadley Freeman
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Category: Essays
This issue of The Jewish Quarterly explores the response of the left to the Hamas attacks in Israel of October 7 and the willingness of progressives to abandon values that they purport to represent. In this crucial essay, author and columnist Hadley Freeman examines the equivocations, contortions and hy ...Show more
Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket: Stories by Hilma Wolitzer
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Category: Essays
A TIME 'New Books You Should Read'A People magazine 'Book of the Week'A New York Times Editors' ChoiceWith a foreword by Elizabeth Strout 'Electric- with wit, with rage, with grief, with the kind of prose that makes you both laugh and thrill to the darker, spikier emotions just barely visible under the ...Show more
In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing by Elena Ferrante
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Category: Essays
Reflections on reading and writing from the author of My Brilliant Friend. 'Elena Ferrante has established herself as the foremost writer in Italy - and the world.' - The Sunday Times A delightful collection of essays exploring reading and writing from the internationally acclaimed author of My Brilli ...Show more
The Forgotten People: Liberal and conservative approaches to recognising indigenous peoples by Damien Freeman, Shireen Morris
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Category: Essays
" The Forgotten Peoplechallenges the assumption that constitutional recognition of indigenous Australians is a project of the left in Australia. It demonstrates that there may be a set of reforms that can achieve the change sought by indigenous leaders, while addressing the critical concerns of consti ...Show more
Heartsick: Three stories about love and loss, and what happens in between by Jessie Stephens
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Category: Essays
When Jessie Stephens went through a difficult breakup, she started to look for books or stories that would reflect her experience and perhaps give her some hope for the future. There were plenty of guide books in the '101 tips to cure a broken heart' vein, but what Jessie wanted were stories. She wanted ...Show more
The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society by Joseph Stiglitz
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Category: Essays
A major reappraisal, by the Nobel-prizewinning economist, of the relationship between capitalism and freedom Despite its manifest failures, the narrative of neoliberalism retains its grip on the public mind and the policies of governments all over the world. By this narrative, less regulation and more ...Show more
No Fixed Address Short Black 11 by Robyn Davidson
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Category: Essays | Series: Short Blacks
In every religion I can think of, there exists some variation on the theme of abandoning the settled life and walking one's way to godliness. The Hindu Sadhu, leaving behind family and wealth to live as a beggar; the pilgrims of Compostela walking away their sins; the circumambulators of the Buddhist ko ...Show more