Dead in the Water: The AUKUS Delusion (Australian Foreign Affairs 20) by Jonathan Pearlman
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Category: Essays
The latest issue of Australian Foreign Affairs examines Australia's momentous decision to form a security pact with the United States and the United Kingdom that includes an ambitious, expensive and risky plan to acquire nuclear-power submarines - a move that will have far-reaching military and strategi ...Show more
Serious Noticing - Selected Essays, 1999-2019 by James Wood
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Category: Essays
The definitive collection of literary essays byThe New Yorker's award-winning longtime book critic Ever since the publication of his first essay collection,The Broken Estate, in 1999, James Wood has been widely regarded as a leading literary critic of the English-speaking world. His essays on canonical ...Show more
Stories That Want To Be Told: The Long Lede Anthology by Judith Neilson Institute
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Category: Essays
Passion pieces from the next generation of Australian longform journalists. Nine Australian writers, mentored by nine experienced Australian journalists, developed stories that they knew needed to be shared. With direction from Amanda Hooton of GW, Claire Keenan explores Catholicism in rural Australia, ...Show more
Modern Warfare: A Lowy Institute Paper: Penguin Special: Lessons from Ukraine by Sir Lawrence Freedman
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Category: Essays
The foremost authority on modern war in the English-speaking world examines Europe's most important conflict since World War IIMore than any other modern war, the fight between Russia and Ukraine has been a tough testing ground for modern weapons and operational concepts.Drawing on extensive research in ...Show more
Granta 161: Sister, Brother by Sigrid Rausing (Editor)
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Category: Essays
This issue of Granta tells the story of siblings: chaotic hierarchies, zero-sum games of competition alternating with tenderness, lifelong relationships that nevertheless can sometimes break.
Light in Gaza - Writings Born of Fire by Jehad Abusalim (Editor); Jennifer Bing (Editor); Mike Merryman-Lotze (Editor)
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Category: Essays | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
Light in Gaza gathers a collective Palestinian vision of what a future Gaza could be.
Six Memos for the Next Millennium by Italo Calvino
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Category: Essays
"One of the most rigorously presented and beautifully illustrated critical testaments in all of literature."--Boston Globe "A brilliant, original approach to literature, a key to Calvino's own work and a thoroughly delightful and illuminating commentary on some of the world's greatest writing."--San Fra ...Show more
Notes from No Man's Land : American Essays by Eula Biss
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Category: Essays
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for CriticismWinner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize Acclaimed for its frank and fascinating investigation of racial identity, and reissued on its ten-year anniversary, Notes from No Man's Land begins with a series of lynchings, ends with a list of ...Show more
Second-Hand Time An Oral History of the Fall of the Soviet Union by Svetlana Alexievich
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Category: Essays
In this magnificent requiem to a civilization in ruins, the winne of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature reinvents a singular, polyphonic literary form, bringing together the voices of dozens of witnesses to the collapse of the USSR in a formidable attempt to chart the disappearance of a culture and to s ...Show more
Suppose a Sentence by Brian Dillon
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Category: Essays
A captivating meditation on the power of the sentence by the author of Essayism, a 2018 New Yorker book of the year. In Suppose a Sentence, Brian Dillon, whom John Banville has called "a literary fl neur in the tradition of Baudelaire and Walter Benjamin," has written a sequel of sorts to Essayism, hi ...Show more
In Memory of Memory by Maria Stepanova
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Category: Essays
With the death of her aunt, Maria Stepanova is left to sift through an apartment full of faded photographs, old postcards, letters, diaries, and heaps of souvenirs: a withered repository of a century of life in Russia. Carefully reassembled with calm, steady hands, these shards tell the story of how a s ...Show more
You Have Not yet Been Defeated by Alaa Abd el-Fattah; Naomi Klein (Foreword by); Omar Robert Hamilton (Editor)
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Category: Essays
Alaa Abd el-Fattah, 39, is arguably the most high profile political prisoner in Egypt, if not the Arab world. A leading figure among the young technologists and bloggers of the 2000s he rose to international prominence during the revolution of 2011. A fiercely independent thinker who fuses politics and ...Show more