Why We Read by Various
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Category: Theory & Essays
Why read non-fiction? Is it just to find things out? Or is it for pleasure, challenge, adventure, meaning? Here, in seventy new pieces, some of the most original writers and thinkers of our time give their answers.From Hilton Als on reading as writing's dearest companion to Nicci Gerrard on reading for ...Show more
Why Women Grow: Stories of Soil, Sisterhood and Survival by Alice Vincent
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Category: Theory & Essays
A stunning meditation on why women are drawn to the soil. Women have always gardened, but our stories have been buried with our work. Alice Vincent is on a quest to change that. To understand what encourages women to go out, work the soil, plant seeds and nurture them, even when so many other responsibi ...Show more
Women Are the Future of Islam by Sherin Khankan
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Category: Theory & Essays
The future of Islam is female Named one of the BBC's 100 Women of 2016 Sherin Khankan is one of the very few female imams in the Western World. In addition she has founded the first mosque for women in Europe. In this urgent manifesto this remarkable woman challenges the idea that Islam should be defin ...Show more
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown by Peter William Evans
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Category: Theory & Essays | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
Pedro Almodovar's 1988 black comedy-melodrama Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown established its director as one of the most exciting of European film-making talents. An often hilarious study of sexual mores, Women on the Verge has a central character, Pepa (Carmen Maura), as warm and richly draw ...Show more
Your Silence Will Not Protect You: Essays and Poems by Audre Lorde
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Category: Theory & Essays
Audre Lorde (1934-1992) described herself as 'Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet'. Born in New York, she had her first poem published while still at school and her last the year she died of cancer. Her extraordinary belief in the power of language - of speaking - to foster selfhood, articulate injust ...Show more
the mysterious correspondent by Marcel Proust
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Category: Theory & Essays
'The Red Prince announces Helen Carr as one of the most exciting new voices in narrative history.' Dan Jones John of Gaunt was son of Edward III, brother to the Black Prince, father to Henry IV and the forefather of the Tudors. His character and motivations have been hotly disputed: supposed usurper ...Show more
At The Pond: Swimming At The Hampstead Ladies' Pond by Margaret Drabble,Esther Freud,Sophie Mackintosh
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Category: Memoir & Biography
Tucked away along a shady path towards the north-east edge of Hampstead Heath is a sign: Women Only. This is the Kenwood Ladies’ Bathing Pond. Floating in the Pond’s silky waters, hidden by a canopy of trees, it’s easy to forget that you are in the middle of London. On a hot day, thousands of swimmers f ...Show more