The American Beast: Essays, 2012-2022 by Jill Lepore
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Category: Essays
A panoptical vision of modern America, from the brilliant mind of Jill Lepore.The past decade has marked a shift in America's trajectory. Jill Lepore, the acclaimed writer and New Yorker columnist, has been tracing its contested storylines in real time, beginning with the run-up to Donald Trump's electi ...Show more
Justice and Hope: Essays, Lectures and Other Writings by Raimond Gaita
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Category: Essays
The collected writings of Raimond Gaita 'From where will we draw the moral energy to stay true to justice?' For more than three decades the incomparable voice of Raimond Gaita has been summoning us to new conversations that deepen our understanding of what matters most to human life and awaken the sen ...Show more
DO NOT DETONATE Without Presidential Approval - A Portfolio on the Subjects of Mid-Century Cinema, the Broadway Stage and the American West by Wes Anderson (Editor); Jake Perlin (Editor)
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Category: Essays
Inspirations for Wes Anderson's Asteroid City a collection of new and classic writing on mid-century cinema and the American West ** Includes an exclusive interview with Wes Anderson in which the director details how the pieces collected here influenced the characters, stories, and settings in the film ...Show more
The School of Life: Collected Essays by The School of Life
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Category: Essays
A 15th anniversary collection of The School of Life's most popular andessential essays on self-knowledge, relationships, work and culture. The School of Life is an organisation with a focused mission at its heart: to help foster calm, self-understanding and greater emotional maturity. Over 15 years, we ...Show more
Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism and Minding Other People's Business by Roxane Gay
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Category: 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
A Real Piece of Work: A Memoir in Essays by Erin Riley
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Category: Essays
'Language gave to me the body I knew was mine and brought into existence so many possibilities for what my gender can be.' Across these twenty fresh and boldly intimate stories, Erin Riley writes about the things that matter most- family, heartbreak, humanity, justice and swimming, and the messy, hard g ...Show more
Quietly Hostile by Samantha Irby
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Category: Essays
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Wow, No Thank You. This is not an advice book. Samantha Irby doesn't know anything. Irby is working in Chicago when the pandemic hits. After fleeing the city and returning home to Michigan, she finds herself bleaching groceries and wondering if her uppe ...Show more
Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces 2004-2021 by Margaret Atwood
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Category: Essays
An exhilarating collection of non-fiction from the bestselling, double Booker Prize-winning phenomenon that is Margaret Atwood From cultural icon Margaret Atwood comes a brilliant collection of essays -- funny, erudite, endlessly curious, uncannily prescient -- which seek answers to Burning Questions su ...Show more
Every Day Is To-Day - Essential Writings by Gertrude Stein; Francesca Wade (Selected by, Introduction by)
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Category: Essays | Series: Essential Stories Ser.
A gorgeous new collection featuring 26 of Gertrude Stein's most enrapturing and essential short writings--a carefully curated, accessible entry point into her best and most joyful works Between the French-flapped covers of this elegant paperback collection, readers will rediscover Gertrude Stein as the ...Show more
Porn: An Oral History by Polly Barton
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Category: Essays
A landmark work of oral history interrogating everything and anything related to porn. How do we talk about porn? Why it is that when we do talk about porn, we tend to retreat into the abstract? How do we have meaningful conversations about it with those closest to us? In Porn: An Oral History, her ext ...Show more
All About Love by Bell Hooks
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Category: Essays | Series: Love Song to the Nation
THE ACCLAIMED FIRST VOLUME IN HER "LOVE SONG TO THE NATION" "The word 'love' is most often defined as a noun, yet . . . we would all love better if we used it as a verb," writes bell hooks as she comes out fighting and on fire in All About Love. Here, at her most provocative and intensely personal, the ...Show more
I Used to Be Charming - The Rest of Eve Babitz by Eve Babitz
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Category: Essays
Previously uncollected nonfiction pieces by Hollywood's ultimate It Girl about everything from fashion to tango to Jim Morrison and Nicholas Cage. Eve Babitz knew everyone, tried everything (at least once), and was never shy about sharing her thoughts on any subject, be it sex, weight loss, drug use, ...Show more