Here and Now: Letters by J. M. Coetzee
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Category: Literary Studies
Although Paul Auster and J.M. Coetzee had been reading each other's books for years, the two writers did not meet until February 2008. Not long after, Auster received a letter from Coetzee, suggesting they begin exchanging letters on a regular basis and, 'God willing, strike sparks off each other.' Here ...Show more
The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm's Way by Alice Walker
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Category: Literary Studies
The Cushion in the Road is a collection of wide-ranging meditations on the human race's intertwined personal, spiritual and political destinies. It revisits the many themes that the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, poet, essayist and activist has addressed throughout her career: racism, Africa, solidari ...Show more
Travelling Without Gods A Chris Wallace-Crabbe Companion by Cassandra Atherton
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Category: Literary Studies
Wide-ranging in theme and context, it explores the imaginative effects of his writing. A tribute to Chris on the occasion of this eightieth birthday, in many ways it suggests an alternative cultural history of Australia since the 1950s. Containing biographical and critical pieces, poems (including new w ...Show more
Lists of Note by Shaun Usher
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Category: Literary Studies
Humans have been making lists for even longer than they've been writing letters. They are the shorthand for what really matters to us: our hopes and aspirations; likes and dislikes; rules for living and loving; records of our memories and reminders of the things we want to do before we die. Just as he d ...Show more
In Praise of Shadows by Junichiro Tanizaki
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Category: Literary Studies | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
"This is an essay on aesthetics by one of the greatest Japanese novelists. The text ranges over architecture, jade, food, toilets, and combines an acute sense of the use of space in buildings, as well as perfect descriptions of lacquerware under candlelight and women in the darkness of the house of plea ...Show more
And What Do You Do, Mr Gable? by Richard Flanagan
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Category: Literary Studies
'And what do you do, Mr Faulkner?' asked Clark Gable after being introduced to William Faulkner at a party. 'I write,' replied Faulkner. 'And what do you do, Mr Gable?' Collected here for the first time are the very best of Richard Flanagan's wide-ranging, free-wheeling writings on everything from direc ...Show more
Whitman Illuminated: Song of Myself by Walter Whitman
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Category: Literary Studies
Walt Whitman's iconic collection of poems, Leaves of Grass, has earned a reputation as a sacred American text. Whitman himself made such comparisons, going so far as to use biblical verse as a model for his own. So it's only appropriate that artist and illustrator Allen Crawford has chosen to illuminate ...Show more
Does Cooking Matter? (Penguin Special) by Rebecca Huntley
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Category: Literary Studies | Series: Penguin Specials
Crime and Punishment: Offenders and Victims in a Broken Justice System by Russell Marks
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Category: Literary Studies | Series: Redback Ser.
If the goal of our justice system is to reduce crime and create a safer society, then we must do better. According to conventional wisdom, severely punishing offenders reduces the likelihood that they'll offend again. Why, then, do so many who go to prison continue to commit crimes after their relea ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 58: Blood Year: Terror and the Islamic State by David Kilcullen
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Category: Literary Studies | Series: Quarterly Essay
Last year was a "blood year" in the Middle East - massacres and beheadings, fallen cities, collapsed and collapsing states, the unravelling of a decade of Western strategy. We saw the rise of ISIS, the splintering of government in Iraq, and foreign fighters - many from Europe, Australia and Africa - flo ...Show more
The Literary Churchill: Author, Reader, Actor by Jonathan Rose
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Category: Literary Studies
This strikingly original book introduces a Winston Churchill we have not known before. Award-winning author Jonathan Rose explores in tandem Churchill's careers as statesman and author, revealing the profound influence of literature and theater on Churchill's personal, carefully composed grand story and ...Show more
And What Do You Do, Mr Gable? by Richard Flanagan
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Category: Literary Studies
From the winner of the Man Booker Prize. The collected short pieces of nonfiction from one of Australia's best novelists. 'And what do you do, Mr Faulkner?' asked Clark Gable after being introduced to William Faulkner at a party. 'I write,' replied Faulkner. 'And what do you do, Mr Gable?' Over the year ...Show more