Abolition Geography: Selected Essays and Interviews by Brenna; Gilmo Alberto; Bhandar Toscano
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Category: Essays
Race, Space and Abolition brings together Gilmore's essays, articles and interviews from over the past two decades. One of the foremost contemporary theorists and activists in movements for prison abolition and social justice, Gilmore's essays comprise searing analyses of the origins of mass incarcerati ...Show more
Babel - Adventures in Translation by Dennis Duncan; Stephen Harrison; Katrin Kohl; Matthew Reynolds
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Category: Essays
This innovative collection of essays shows how linguistic diversity has inspired people across time and cultures to embark on adventurous journeys through the translation of texts. It tells the story of how ideas have travelled via the medium of translation into different languages and cultures, focusin ...Show more
Black Womanist Ethics by Katie G. Cannon
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Category: Essays
This study articulates the distinctive moral character of the Afro-American women's community. Beginning with a reconstructive history of the Afro-American woman's situation in America, the work next traces the emergence of the Black woman's literary tradition and explains its importance in expressing t ...Show more
Black and Female by Tsitsi Dangarembga
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Category: Essays
A short, staggering collection of essays from 'one of the most remarkable people the Booker Prize has ever celebrated' (New Statesman).
Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces 2004-2021 by Margaret Atwood
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Category: Essays | Reading Level: near fine
From cultural icon Margaret Atwood comes a brilliant collection of essays - funny, erudite, endlessly curious, uncannily prescient - which seek answers to Burning Questions such as; Why do people everywhere, in all cultures, tell stories? How much of yourself can you give away without evaporating? How c ...Show more
Critic Swallows Book: Ten Years of the Sydney Review of Books by Catriona Menzies-Pike (Editor)
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Category: Essays
In 2023 the Sydney Review of Books celebrates a decade online and the publication of more than a thousand essays and longform reviews of Australian and international literature. Over these ten years the SRB has cleared a unique space for serious reflection on literature and for critical thinking about o ...Show more
Dyke (geology) by Sabrina Imbler
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Category: Essays
Literary Nonfiction. LGBTQIA Studies. Through intertwined threads of autofiction, lyric science writing, and the tale of a newly queer Hawaiian volcano, Sabrina Imbler delivers a coming out story on a geological time scale. This is a small book that tackles large, wholly human questions--what it means t ...Show more
Everybody by Olivia Laing
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Category: Essays
LONGLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2022. The body is a source of pleasure and of pain, at once hopelessly vulnerable and radiant with power. At a moment in which basic rights are once again imperilled, Olivia Laing conducts an ambitious investigation into the body and its discontents, using the ...Show more
God of the Oppressed by James H. Cone
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Category: Essays
In his reflections on God, Jesus, suffering, and liberation, James H. Cone relates the gospel message to the experience of the black community. But a wider theme of the book is the role that social and historical context plays in framing the questions we address to God as well as the mode of the answers ...Show more
Goodbye to All That (Revised Edition) - Writers on Loving and Leaving New York by Sari Botton (Editor)
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Category: Essays
From Roxane Gay to Leslie Jamison, thirty brilliant writers share their timeless stories about the everlasting magic--and occasional misery--of living in the Big Apple, in a new edition of the classic anthology. In the revised edition of this classic collection, thirty writers share their own storie ...Show more
Griffith Review 81 the Leisure Principle by GRIFFITH
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Category: Essays | Series: Griffith Review Ser.
In 1930, John Maynard Keynes spelt out a vision of the impending utopia. Work, he said, will become a thing of the past. ‘For the first time since creation,’ he predicted, ‘man will be faced with his real, his permanent problem — how to occupy the leisure which science…will have won for him.’So where di ...Show more
Haywire: The Best of Craig Brown by Craig Brown
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Category: Essays
From the bestselling and award-winning author of Ma'am Darling and One Two Three Four, a selection of Craig Brown's finest writing collected together for the first time.'The most screamingly funny living writer' Barry Humphries, Mail on SundayMixing parody, literary criticism, profiles, satire, light ve ...Show more