On Women: A New Collection of Feminist Essays from the Influential Writer, Activist and Critic, Susan Sontag by Susan Sontag
$35.00 AUD
Category: Theory & Essays
For the first time, On Women brings together Susan Sontag's most incisive and direct writing on womanhood. A brilliant new collection of essays on the oppression of women and the tools necessary for liberation from highly-acclaimed author Susan Sontag. Often regarded as one of the most influential write ...Show more
Pleasure of Thinking by Wang Xiaobo
$29.99 AUD
Category: Theory & Essays
The dazzling essays of the beloved, subversive Chinese writer Wang Xiaobo, a continual bestseller in China, now in English for the first time. Wang Xiaobo made his name as a novelist but his essays, too, have become ongoing bestsellers in China since their publication in the 1990s. Bringing together hi ...Show more
Quietly Hostile by Samantha Irby
$23.99 AUD
Category: Theory & Essays
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Wow, No Thank You. This is not an advice book. Samantha Irby doesn't know anything. Irby is working in Chicago when the pandemic hits. After fleeing the city and returning home to Michigan, she finds herself bleaching groceries and wondering if her uppe ...Show more
The School of Life: Collected Essays by The School of Life
$55.00 AUD
Category: Theory & Essays
A 15th anniversary collection of The School of Life's most popular andessential essays on self-knowledge, relationships, work and culture. The School of Life is an organisation with a focused mission at its heart: to help foster calm, self-understanding and greater emotional maturity. Over 15 years, we ...Show more
Critic Swallows Book: Ten Years of the Sydney Review of Books by Catriona Menzies-Pike (Editor)
$34.95 AUD
Category: Theory & 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
Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism and Minding Other People's Business by Roxane Gay
$32.99 AUD
Category: Theory & Essays
Since the publication of her groundbreaking books Bad Feminist and Hunger, Roxane Gay has continued to tackle big issues embroiling society - state-sponsored violence and mass shootings, women's rights post-Dobbs, online disinformation, and the limits of empathy - alongside more individually personal ma ...Show more
Rome: The Passenger by Various
$36.99 AUD
Category: Theory & Essays | Series: The\Passenger Ser.
IN THIS VOLUME:'Rome doesn't judge you' by Nicola Lagioia, 'The soul of the city' by Matteo Nucci, '39 memos for a book about Rome' by Francesco PiccoloPlus: a guide to the sounds of Rome; the feigned unrest and real malaise of the suburbs; the influence of the Vatican; the excessive power of real esta ...Show more
Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
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Category: Theory & Essays | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The woman's place of power within each of us is neither white nor surface; it is dark, it is ancient, and it is deep The revolutionary writings of Audre Lorde gave voice to those 'outside the circle of this society's definition of acceptable women'. Uncompromising, angry and yet full of hope, this co ...Show more
The History of Sexuality: 4: Confessions of the Flesh by Michel Foucault
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Category: Theory & Essays
The final, previously unpublished volume of one of the twentieth century's seminal works Foucault's History of Sexuality changed the way we think about power, selfhood and sexuality. In this fourth and final volume, he turns his attention to early Christianity, exploring how ancient ideas of pleasure we ...Show more
Too Much of Life - Complete Chronicles by Clarice Lispector; Margaret Jull Costa (Translator); Robin Patterson (Translator)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Theory & Essays
A TLS Book of the Year This exhilarating collection of non-fiction sees one of the greatest twentieth-century writers meditating on the moments that make up a life 'How did I so unwittingly transform the joy of living into the great luxury of being alive?' Between 1967 and 1977, the internationally reno ...Show more
Wandering with Intent: essays by Kim Mahood
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Category: Theory & Essays
To essay means to try, to endeavour, to attempt -- and to risk failure. For Kim Mahood, it is both a form of writing and an approach to life. In these finely observed and probing essays, award-winning artist and writer Kim Mahood invites us to accompany her on the road and into the remote places of Aust ...Show more
Ways of Seeing by John Berger
$24.99 AUD
Category: Theory & Essays | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
How do we see the world around us? "The Penguin on Design" series includes the works of creative thinkers whose writings on art, design and the media have changed our vision forever. "Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak." "But, there is also another sense in whi ...Show more