On Connection by Kae Tempest
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Category: Theory & Essays
Staggering talent Kae Tempest's first work of non-fiction: a meditation on the power of creative connection. Beneath the surface we are all connected . . . This is a meditation on the power of creative connection. Drawing on twenty years' experience as a writer and performer, Kae Tempest explores how an ...Show more
On Democracy by White, E. B.
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Category: Theory & Essays
A New York Times Book Review New & Noteworthy Title "For democracy's weary champions, White's time-tested prose is a shot of adrenaline" (Madeleine Albright). "I am a member of a party of one, and I live in an age of fear." These words were written by E. B. White in 1947. Decades before our curr ...Show more
On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint by Maggie Nelson
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Category: Theory & Essays
Now in paperback, an enduring work of criticism from one of the most important writers of our time. So often deployed as a jingoistic, even menacing rallying cry, or limited by a focus on passing moments of liberation, the rhetoric of freedom both rouses and repels. Does it remain key to autonomy, j ...Show more
On Quality: An Inquiry Into Excellence: Unpublished And Selected Writings by Robert M Pirsig, Wendy K. Pirsig
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Category: Theory & Essays
From the author of the multi-million-copy-selling classic Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, an original collection of Robert Pirsig's writings on the central theme of his thought--"quality"--featuring never-before-seen selections from his unpublished works."The ultimate goal in the pursuit of e ...Show more
Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism and Minding Other People's Business by Roxane Gay
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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
Oppositions: Selected Essays by Mary Gaitskill
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Category: Theory & Essays
'Mary Gaitskill is willing to think about the problematic with complexity and humanity, and without taking sides or engaging in all the fashionable moral hectoring that passes for serious thought these days.' Eimear McBride Nuanced, daring and tender, these essays from the celebrated author of This is ...Show more
Orwell on Freedom by George Orwell
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Category: Theory & Essays
'Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two equals four. If that is granted, all else follows.' GEORGE ORWELL is one of the world's most famous social commentators. His writing opposed imperialism, sought to expose the unjust sufferings of the poor and unemployed and warned us against totalitarian ...Show more
Orwell's Roses by Rebecca Solnit
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Category: Theory & Essays
Roses, pleasure, and politics: a fresh take on Orwell as an avid gardener, whose political writing was grounded in his passion for the natural world. From 1936 to 1940, the newly-wed George Orwell lived in a small cottage in Hertfordshire, writing, and tending his garden. When Rebecca Solnit visited the ...Show more
Orwell's Roses by Rebecca Solnit
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Category: Theory & Essays
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for NonfictionFinalist for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography "An exhilarating romp through Orwell's life and times and also through the life and times of roses." --Margaret Atwood "A captivating account of Orwell as gardener, lover, ...Show more
Our Bodies, Their Battlefield - What War Does to Women by Christina Lamb
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Category: Theory & Essays
‘A wake-up call … These women’s stories will make you weep, and then rage at the world's indifference.’ Amal Clooney From award-winning war reporter and co-author of I Am Malala, this is the first major account to address the scale of rape and sexual violence in modern conflict. Christina Lamb has worke ...Show more
Our Malady - Lessons in Liberty and Solidarity by Timothy Snyder
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Category: Theory & Essays
A virus is not human, but the reaction to it is a measure of humanity. America has not measured up well. Tens of thousands are dead for no reason. America is supposed to be about freedom, yet illness and fear make its citizens less free. After all, freedom is meaningless if we are too ill to think abou ...Show more
Out of The Sun: Essays at the Crossroads of Race by Esi Edugyan
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Category: Theory & Essays
Two-time Booker Shortlistee and internationally bestselling author Esi Edugyan delivers a searing analysis of the relationship between race and art. History is a construction. What happens when we bring stories consigned to the margins up to the light? How does that complicate our certainties about who ...Show more