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Growing up Disabled in Australia by Carly Findlay

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'My body and its place in the world seemed quite normal to me.' 'I didn't grow up disabled, I grew up with a problem. A problem those around me wanted to fix.' 'We have all felt that uncanny sensation that someone is watching us.' 'The diagnosis helped but it didn't fix everything.' 'Don't fear the labe ...Show more

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When I Dare to Be Powerful by Audre Lorde

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'Women so empowered are dangerous' Written with a 'black woman's anger' and the precision of a poet, these searing pieces by the groundbreaking writer Audre Lorde are a celebration of female strength and solidarity, and a cry to speak out against those who seek to silence anyone they see as 'other'. One ...Show more

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Buried Not Dead by Fiona McGregor

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Novelist Fiona McGregor's new book, Buried Not Dead, is a collection of essays on art, literature and performance, sexuality, activism and the life of the city. It features performance artists, writers, dancers, tattooists and DJs, some of them famous, like Marina Abramović and Mike Parr, while others, ...Show more

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Mouthpieces by Eimear McBride

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Three dazzling texts from the award-winning Eimear McBride.

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Steps Towards a Small Theory of the Visible by John Berger

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Category: Theory & Essays | Series: Penguin Great Ideas Ser.

'We live within a spectacle of empty clothes and unworn masks' In this series of remarkable pieces from across his career, John Berger celebrates and dissects the close links between art and society and the individual. Few writers give a more vivid and moving sense of how we make art and how art makes u ...Show more

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Antipodean China - Reflections on Literary Exchange by Nicholas Jose (Editor); Benjamin Madden (Editor)

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Antipodean China is a collection of essays drawn from a series of encounters between Australian and Chinese writers, which took place in China and Australia over a ten-year period from 2011. The encounters could be defensive, especially given the need to depend on translators, but as the writers spoke a ...Show more

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Maybe the People Would Be the Times - Essays by Luc Sante

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In his second collection (afterKill All Your Darlings, 2007), Luc Sante pays homage to Patti Smith, Rene Ricard, and Georges Simenon; traces the history of tabloids; surveys the landscape that gave birth to the Beastie Boys; explores the back alleys of vernacular photography; sounds a threnody for the f ...Show more

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The Decay of Lying by Oscar Wilde

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Category: Theory & Essays | Series: Penguin Great Ideas Ser.

'Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life' The two works brought together here, 'The Decay of Lying' and 'The Critic as Artist', are Oscar Wilde's wittiest and most profound writings on aesthetics, in which he proposes that criticism is the highest form of creation and that lying, the telling o ...Show more

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The Hard Crowd: Essays 2000-2020 by Rachel Kushner

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A wildly original first essay collection from the bestselling, Booker Prize-shortlisted author of The Mars Room In her twenties Rachel Kushner went to Mexico in pursuit of her first love - motorbikes - to compete in the notorious and deadly race, Cabo 1000. As fellow racers died on the roadside, bikes ...Show more

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A Tough Mind and a Tender Heart by Martin Luther King Jr.

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Category: Theory & Essays | Series: Penguin Great Ideas Ser.

'Far from being the pious injunction of a Utopian dreamer, the command to love one's enemy is an absolute necessity for our survival' Advocating love as strength and non-violence as the most powerful weapon there is, these sermons and writings from the heart of the civil rights movement show Martin Luth ...Show more

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The Freedom to Be Free by Hannah Arendt

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Category: Theory & Essays | Series: Penguin Great Ideas Ser.

'People can only be free in relation to one another.' Three exhilarating and inspiring essays in which the great twentieth-century political philosopher argues that there can be no freedom without politics, and no politics without freedom. One of twenty new books in the bestselling Penguin Great Ideas s ...Show more

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The Power of Words by Simone Weil

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'There are certain words which possess, in themselves, when properly used, a virtue which illumines and lifts up towards the good' The philosopher and activist Simone Weil was one of the most courageous thinkers of the twentieth century. Here she writes, with honesty and moral clarity, about the manipul ...Show more

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Theory & Essays

Growing up Disabled in Australia by Carly Findlay

$29.99 AUD

When I Dare to Be Powerful by Audre Lorde

$9.99 AUD

Buried Not Dead by Fiona McGregor

$26.95 AUD

Mouthpieces by Eimear McBride

$9.99 AUD

Steps Towards a Small Theory of the Visible by John Berger

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Antipodean China - Reflections on Literary Exchange by Nicholas Jose (Editor); Benjamin Madden (Editor)

$29.99 AUD

Maybe the People Would Be the Times - Essays by Luc Sante

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The Decay of Lying by Oscar Wilde

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The Hard Crowd: Essays 2000-2020 by Rachel Kushner

$32.99 AUD

A Tough Mind and a Tender Heart by Martin Luther King Jr.

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The Freedom to Be Free by Hannah Arendt

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The Power of Words by Simone Weil

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