Quarterly Essay 78: The Coal Curse: Resources, Climate and Australia's Future by Judith Brett
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Category: Essays | Series: QE78
Australia is the world’s biggest coal exporter, accounting for over a third of coal exports worldwide. In 2018, coal overtook iron ore as our most valuable export. Scott Morrison’s government has embraced coal, doubling down on supporting the industry, calling climate-based boycotts of coal companies “i ...Show more
The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race by Jesmyn Ward
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Category: Essays
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLEREdited by two-time National Book Award winner and Women's Prize shortlisted-author Jesmyn Ward, a timely and groundbreaking collection of essays and poems about race in AmericaIn this bestselling collection of essays and poems, Jesmyn Ward gathers a new generation of writers ...Show more
On Cats by Charles Bukowski
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Category: Classics
'A cat is only ITSELF, representative of the strong forces of life that won't let go' For Charles Bukowski there was something majestic and elemental about cats. He considered them to be sentient beings, whose searing gaze could penetrate deep into our being. Cats see into us; they are on to something. ...Show more
Wordy - Sounding off on high art, low appetite and the power of memory by Simon Schama
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Category: Essays | Reading Level: very good
'Wordy is about the intoxication of writing; my sense of playful versatility; different voices for different matters: the polemical voice for political columns; the sharp-eyed descriptive take for profiles; poetic precision in grappling with the hard task of translating art into words; lyrical recall fo ...Show more
Vesper Flights by Helen Macdonald
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Category: Essays
*A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE GUARDIAN, FINANCIAL TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, INDEPENDENT, BBC SCIENCE FOCUS MAGAZINE AND TIME MAGAZINE**A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK*Animals don't exist to teach us things, but that is what they have always done, and most of what they teach us is what w ...Show more
Media Unmade: Australian Media's Most Disruptive Decade by Tim Burrowes
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Category: Essays
Media Unmade presents the definitive story of the decade in which big media in Australia was cut down to size - a decade that forever altered what had until then been perceived as the unbreachable foundations of the industry in this country. Drawing on insights from his ringside seat, independent journa ...Show more
Dear Dolly: On Love, Life and Friendship, the instant Sunday Times bestseller by Dolly Alderton
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Category: Essays
From the bestselling and beloved author of Everything I Know about Love and Ghosts - the definitive selection of her Dear Dolly agony aunt letters and answers from her hugely popular Sunday Times Style column- with an introduction by Dolly. 'What I learnt from sharing my most private pain with a semi-pr ...Show more
Men Explain Things to Me - And Other Essays by Rebecca Solnit
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Category: Essays | Reading Level: good-very good
In her comic, scathing essay "Men Explain Things to Me," Rebecca Solnit takes on what often goes wrong in conversations between men and women. She writes about men who wrongly assume they know things and wrongly assume women don't, about why this arises, and how this aspect of the gender wars works, air ...Show more
Everything in Its Place: First Loves and Last Tales by Oliver Sacks
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Category: Essays
From the bestselling author of Gratitude and On the Move, a final volume of essays that showcase Sacks's broad range of interests - from his passion for ferns, swimming, and horsetails, to his final case histories exploring schizophrenia, dementia, and Alzheimer's. Oliver Sacks, scientist and storytelle ...Show more
On Reckoning by Amy Remeikis
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Category: Essays | Series: On Ser.
What happens when the usual political tactics of deflect and dodge are no longer enough? A reckoning. The Guardian's political reporter Amy Remeikis has spoken before about being a survivor of sexual assault, but Brittany Higgins going public with her story ripped the curtain back not just on political ...Show more
Indigenous and Other Australians Since 1901 by Tim Rowse
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Category: Essays
As Australia became a nation in 1901, no one anticipated that 'Aboriginal affairs' would become an on-going national preoccupation. Not 'dying out' as predicted, Aboriginal numbers recovered and - along with Torres Strait Islanders - they became an articulate presence, aggrieved at colonial authority's ...Show more
Who Cares Wins: Reasons for Optimism in our Changing World by Lily Cole
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Category: Essays | Reading Level: near fine
Optimism demands action. Optimism is an active choice. Optimism is not naïve and it is not impossible. We are living in an age of turmoil, destruction and uncertainty. Global warming has reached terrifying heights of severity, human expansion has caused the extinction of countless species, and Neolibera ...Show more