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The Rebel by Albert Camus
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Category: Essays | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
"The Rebel" is Camus's attempt to understand the time 'I live in' and a brilliant essay on the nature of human revolt. Published in 1951, it makes a daring critique of communism, how it had gone wrong behind the Iron Curtain, and the resulting totalitarian regimes. It questions two events held sacred by ...Show more
No Document by Anwen Crawford
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Category: Essays
No Document is an elegy for a friendship cut short prematurely by death. The memory of this friendship becomes a model for how we might relate to others in sympathy, solidarity and rebellion. At once intimate and expansive, Anwen Crawford's book-length essay explores loss in many forms: disappeared artw ...Show more
Time of Useful Consciousness by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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Category: Essays
New Directions is proud to announce a riveting and galvanizing new book by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. At ninety-three, he shows more power than most any other poet at work today. Ferlinghetti describes his new book, Time of Useful Consciousness, as "a fragmented recording of the American stream-of-conscious ...Show more
The Hard Crowd: Essays 2000-2020 by Rachel Kushner
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Category: Essays
A wildly original first essay collection from the bestselling, Booker Prize-shortlisted author of The Mars Room In her twenties Rachel Kushner went to Mexico in pursuit of her first love - motorbikes - to compete in the notorious and deadly race, Cabo 1000. As fellow racers died on the roadside, bikes ...Show more
Rein Gold by Elfriede Jelinek; Gitta Honegger (Translator)
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Category: Essays
2004 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate Elfriede Jelinek'sRein Gold reconstructs the events of Wagner's epicRing cycle and extends them into the present day. Originally written as a libretto for the Berlin State Opera,Rein Gold is abühnenessay, an essay for the stage, structured in the form of a dialogu ...Show more
Bewitched and Bedevilled: Women Write the Gillard Years by Samantha (ed) Trenoweth
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Category: Essays
Bewitched and Bedevilled looks at the reasons Julia Gillard, our first female Prime Minister, was so vehemently attacked, the varied reactions to being a female prime minister, her unfortunate position at the receiving end of a barrage of sexism and misogyny and how much this played a part in her politi ...Show more
Buried Not Dead by Fiona McGregor
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Category: Essays
Novelist Fiona McGregor's new book, Buried Not Dead, is a collection of essays on art, literature and performance, sexuality, activism and the life of the city. It features performance artists, writers, dancers, tattooists and DJs, some of them famous, like Marina Abramović and Mike Parr, while others, ...Show more
Seduction and Betrayal by Elizabeth Hardwick
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Category: Essays
'Hardwick's sentences are burned in my brain.' - Susan Sontag Sidelined. Betrayed. Killed off. Elizabeth Hardwick considers the history of women and literature. She imagines the lives of the Brontes, Woolf, Eliot and Plath; the fate of literary wives such as Zelda Fitzgerald and Jane Carlyle; and the s ...Show more
Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write - An Autobiography Through Essays by Claire Messud
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Category: Essays
Arranged in three parts, Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write opens with Claire's most personal essays - reflections on a childhood divided between cultures, and between dueling models of womanhood. It is here, in these early years, that we see the seeds of Messud's inquiry into the ...Show more
Bone House by Beverley Farmer
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Category: Essays
Explores the nature of grief and mourning, illness and separation, language and silence, and the power of vision and memory to counteract time.
Wow, No Thank You by Samantha Irby
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Category: Essays
Staring down the barrel of her fortieth year, Samantha Irby is confronting the ways her life has changed since the days she could work a full 11 hour shift on 4 hours of sleep, change her shoes and put mascara on in the back of a moving cab and go from drinks to dinner to the club without a second thoug ...Show more
On Booze by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Category: Essays | Reading Level: 16
"First you take a drink," F. Scott Fitzgerald once noted, "then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you." Fitzgerald wrote alcohol into almost every one of his stories. On Booze gathers debutantes and dandies, rowdy jazz musicians, lost children and ragtime riff-raff into a newly compiled coll ...Show more