On Artists by Ashleigh Wilson
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Category: Essays
The #MeToo movement is overturning a cliche that has forgiven bad behaviour for years- to be creative is to be prone to eccentricity, madness, addiction and excess. No longer can artists be excused from the standards of conduct that apply to us all. But if we denounce the artist, then what becomes of th ...Show more
Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket: Stories by Hilma Wolitzer
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Category: Essays
A TIME 'New Books You Should Read'A People magazine 'Book of the Week'A New York Times Editors' ChoiceWith a foreword by Elizabeth Strout 'Electric- with wit, with rage, with grief, with the kind of prose that makes you both laugh and thrill to the darker, spikier emotions just barely visible under the ...Show more
The AMIA Bombing: Jewish Quarterly 252: An Attack on Argentina's Jewish Centre in 1994 Killed 85 People. It Remains Unsolved. Why? by Jonathan Pearlman
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Category: Essays
This issue of The Jewish Quarterly examines the unresolved questions and political intrigue surrounding the AMIA bombing - a terrorist attack that destroyed the Jewish community centre building in Buenos Aires in 1994, leaving eighty-five people dead and hundreds wounded. None of the culprits has ever b ...Show more
Ivrit: The Language That Makes a People: Jewish Quarterly 253 by Jonathan Pearlman
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Category: Essays
This issue of The Jewish Quarterly explores the remarkable evolution and revival of Hebrew - a language whose trajectory charts the recent history of the Jewish people. In this ground-breaking essay, award-winning writer Ben Judah explores the crucial role of modern Hebrew in defining and reshaping the ...Show more
Whose Story Is This? Old Conflicts New Chapters by Rebecca Solnit
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Category: Essays | Reading Level: very good
Who gets to shape the narrative of our times? The current moment is a battle royale over that foundational power, one in which women, people of color, non-straight people are telling other versions, and white people and men and particularly white men are trying to hang onto the old versions and their ow ...Show more
12 Bytes: How artificial intelligence will change the way we live and love by Jeanette Winterson
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Category: Essays
Twelve bytes. Twelve eye-opening, mind-expanding, funny and provocative essays on the implications of artificial intelligence for the way we live and the way we love - from Sunday Times-bestselling author Jeanette Winterson. In this original, deeply researched and lively new book, Jeanette Winterson tr ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 64: The Australian Dream: Blood, History and Becoming by Stan Grant
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Category: Essays | Series: Quarterly Essay
In Quarterly Essay 64, Stan Grant takes a deep and passionate look at Indigenous futures, in particular the fraught question of remote communities. Moving beyond simplistic talk of "lifestyle choices," Grant explores what makes for a sustainable community and life, and then asks- what can we do to insti ...Show more
True Stories: The Collected Short Non-Fiction by Helen Garner
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Category: Essays
Helen Garner visits the morgue, and goes cruising on a Russian ship. She sees women giving birth, and gets the sack for teaching her students about sex. She attends a school dance and a gun show. She writes about dreaming, about turning fifty, and the storm caused by The First Stone. Her stories on the ...Show more
Facts and Other Lies: Welcome to the Disinformation Age by Ed Coper
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Category: Essays
From fringe conspiracy theories to 'alternative facts', a timely look at how we arrived in the 'fake news' era. Would your younger self, even from a few years ago, believe the news of today? An entire block of a major city blown up by a suicide bomber on Christmas Day because he believed phone towers s ...Show more
In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing by Elena Ferrante
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Category: Essays
Reflections on reading and writing from the author of My Brilliant Friend. 'Elena Ferrante has established herself as the foremost writer in Italy - and the world.' - The Sunday Times A delightful collection of essays exploring reading and writing from the internationally acclaimed author of My Brilli ...Show more
How the World Works by Noam Chomsky
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Category: Essays
The essential introduction to Chomsky's political ideasWith exceptional clarity and power of argument, Noam Chomsky lays bare as no one else can the realities of contemporary geopolitics. Divided into four sections and originally published in the US as individual short books which have collectively sold ...Show more
Upturn: A Better Normal after COVID-19 by Tanya Plibersek (Editor)
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Category: Essays
If you had asked most people a year ago, they would have told you there was no way that school children could shift overnight to online learning; that it was impossible for banks to offer mortgage holidays; impossible to double unemployment benefits; impossible to house rough sleepers or put a hold on e ...Show more