Griffith Review 63 - Writing the Country by Ashley Hay; Julianne Schultz
Category: Essays | Series: Griffith Review Ser.
How we speak of and to the world we live in requires us to make sense of where we are and where we?re going; it requires us to describe, interrogate and analyse our places from the smallest to the grandest of scales.In the second issue of Griffith Review, published fifteen years ago, Melissa Lucashenko ...Show more
Griffith Review 66: The Novella Project VII by Ashley Hay
Category: Essays | Series: Griffith Review Ser.
Griffith Review'sseventh annual edition dedicated to the novella eschews a set theme to showcase work across a spectrum of subjects. Open to both fiction and creative non-fiction, Griffith Review'sdedication to the novella form has been hailed by Nick Earls as central to the revival of the form in Austr ...Show more
Griffith Review 64: The New Disruptors by Ashley Hay
Category: Essays | Series: Griffith Review Ser.
The original pioneers of Silicon Valley dreamed of a better world, but digital disruption has become a threatening catchphrase in recent years. Many of the technologies now at our fingertips are deliberately disruptive, changing industries, economies, politics and institutions, and many facets of our li ...Show more
Between Eternities and Other Writings by Javier Marias
Category: Essays
A new and exhilarating collection of writings from the author of The Infatuations and A Heart So WhiteInternationally renowned writer Javier Marias is a tireless examiner of the world around us, an enthusiastic debunker of pretensions of every kind, and a true polymath. This new collection of essays sho ...Show more
On Patriotism by Paul Daley
Category: Essays
How has militarisation come to define Australian valour? Why has commemorating the centenary of World War I dominated our sense of patriotism?On Patriotismexplores what it really means to love and serve your country. Paul Daley contemplates ways to escape the cultural binds that tie us to Anzac, British ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 80: The High Road: What Australia Can Learn From New Zealand by Laura Tingle
Category: Essays
In a tumultuous year, Australia and New Zealand have never been closer, as we move towards a shared travel zone. But why, despite being so close, do we seem to know so little about each other? And is there such a thing as national character? In this wise and illuminating essay, Laura Tingle looks at lea ...Show more
Granta 139: Best of Young American Novelists 3 by Sigrid Rausing
Category: Essays | Series: Granta: the Magazine of New Writing | Reading Level: General Adult
The third instalment in Granta's iconic list of the best new voices in American fiction.Once every ten years Granta publishes a list of the twenty best American fiction writers under the age of forty.In 1997 and 2007 we picked out such luminaries as Daniel Alarc�n, Edwidge Danticat, Anthony Doerr, Jeffr ...Show more
My Life with Bob: Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues by Pamela Paul
Category: Essays | Reading Level: General Adult
Pamela Paul has kept a single book by her side for twenty-eight years - carried throughout high school and college, hauled from Paris to London to Thailand, from job to job, safely packed away and then carefully removed from apartment to house to its current perch on a shelf over her desk - reliable if ...Show more
On Borrowed Time by Robert Manne
Category: Essays
A stunning new collection of essays from Australia's leading public intellectual. In On Borrowed Time, Manne applies his brilliant mind to the topics that have shaped our world over the last five years, including climate change, the media, Australia's asylum seeker policy and Wikileaks. This provocative ...Show more
En Garde by Sarah Hanson-Young
Category: Essays
When Sarah Hanson-Young called out the abuse she received from male parliamentarians as slut-shaming, she sparked a national conversation about the rampant sexism in politics. Placing the responsibility on women to defend themselves is the same cheap trick as asking, why didn’t she just fight back? Afte ...Show more
Taxi from Another Planet - Conversations with Drivers about Life in the Universe by Charles S. Cockell
Category: Essays
Insightful, good-humored essays on the possibilities of alien life and the uses of space exploration, based on an astrobiologist's everyday conversations with his fellow humans-taxi drivers, to be precise.If you've ever sat in the back seat of a taxi, you know that cabbies like to talk. Sports or politi ...Show more
Winter: (Seasons Quartet 2) by Karl Ove Knausgaard; Ingvild Burkey (Translator); Lars Lerin (Illustrator)
Category: Essays | Series: Seasons Quartet Ser.
The second volume in his autobiographical quartet based on the seasons, Winter is an achingly beautiful collection of daily meditations and letters addressed directly to Knaugsaard's unborn daughter 2 December - It is strange that you exist, but that you don't know anything about what the world loo ...Show more