Too Much and Not the Mood: Essays by Durga Chew-Bose
$24.99 AUD
Category: Theory & Essays
**A Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year** From one of Canada's most distinctive and intelligent emerging voices, a heartfelt collection of essays in Durga Chew-Bose's captivating and truly inimitable style. In Too Much and Not the Mood, Durga Chew-Bose flings us headlong into her most intimate philos ...Show more
Trust: A Fractured Fable by Jeanne Ryckmans
$29.99 AUD
Category: Theory & Essays
A darkly funny memoir and investigation into the charms and crimes of the untrustworthy.Romance scams, pyramid schemes, bogus debts and fake news, the world is awash with confidence tricksters and swindlers. But what happens if the fraudster is your lover?It has been said that trust is a risk masqueradi ...Show more
Turkey: The Passenger by Elif Shafak and Fattima Bhutto, et al.
$29.99 AUD
Category: Theory & Essays | Series: The Passenger
The Big Dig by Elif Batuman -A Story of Dust and Lightby Burhan Sönmez - An Author Recommends by Elif Shafak - plus: the thirty-year coup and the dam that is washing away 12,000 years of history, and more. The birth of the "New Turkey," as the country's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called his own ...Show more
UnAustralian Art: Ten Essays on Transnational Art History by Rex Butler, ADS Donaldson
$40.00 AUD
Category: Theory & Essays
UnAustralian Art: Ten Essays on Transnational Art History proposes a radical rethinking of Australian art. Rex Butler and ADS Donaldson do not seek to identify a distinctive national sensibility; instead, they demonstrate that Australian art and artists have always been engaged in struggles and creative ...Show more
Visualizing Nature - Essays on Truth, Spirit, and Philosophy by Stuart Kestenbaum (Editor)
$43.95 AUD
Category: Theory & Essays
Visualizing Nature brings together contemporary visionaries to share deeply personal essays on nature, ecology, sustainability, climate change, philosophy, and more. Compiled by editor and poet Stuart Kestenbaum, the contributors represent a wide range of backgrounds and experiences, each honoring natur ...Show more
We Are Never Meeting in Real Life - Essays by Samantha Irby
$22.99 AUD
Category: Memoir & Biography
If you haven't already heard of Samantha Irby. where have you been? In this painfully funny collection, Samantha Irby captures powerful emotional truths while chronicling the rubbish bin she calls her life. From an ill-fated pilgrimage to Nashville to scatter her estranged father's ashes to awkward sexu ...Show more
We Need Silence to Find Out What We Think: Selected Essays by Shirley Hazzard
$39.99 AUD
Category: Theory & Essays
Spanning the 1960s to the 2000s, these nonfiction writings showcase Shirley Hazzard's extensive thinking on global politics, international relations, the history and fraught present of Western literary culture, and postwar life in Europe and Asia. They add essential clarity to the themes that dominate h ...Show more
What Do I Know?: Essential Essays by Michel de Montaigne
$32.99 AUD
Category: Theory & Essays
A selection of Michel de Montaigne's most profound, searching essays, in a new translation and stunning hardback edition
What's it Like to be Chased by a Cassowary? Fascinating answers to perplexing questions: The most informative and entertaining explainers from The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald by Felicity Lewis (ed.)
$32.99 AUD
Category: Theory & Essays
Ever wondered what happens to us as we die? Or how the Esky became an Aussie cultural icon? Or why we have leap years? Then look no further - and even if you haven't wondered, you'll want to find out. This anthology is a diverse collection of explainers by some of the finest writers from The Age and The ...Show more
When I Dare to Be Powerful by Audre Lorde
$9.99 AUD
Category: Theory & Essays | Series: Penguin Great Ideas Ser.
'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
Whiteshift - Populism, Immigration and the Future of White Majorities by Eric Kaufmann
$24.99 AUD
Category: Theory & Essays
Across the West, anti-immigration populists are tearing a path through the usual politics of left and right. Immigration is remaking Europe and North America- over half of American babies are non-white, and by the end of the century, minorities and those of mixed race are projected to form the majority ...Show more
Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists? - 50th Anniversary Edition by Linda Nochlin
$19.99 AUD
Category: Theory & Essays
Linda Nochlin's seminal essay on women artists is widely acknowledged as the first real attempt at a feminist history of art. Nochlin refused to handle the question of why there had been no 'great women artists' on its own, corrupted, terms. Instead, she dismantled the very concept of 'greatness', unrav ...Show more