Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write: An Autobiography Through Essays by Claire Messud
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Category: Critical Thinking
In her fiction, Claire Messud has specialized in creating unusual female characters with ferocious, imaginative inner lives (Ruth Franklin, New York Times Magazine). Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write opens a window on Messud's own life: a peripatetic upbringing; a warm, complicat ...Show more
Translating Myself and Others by Jhumpa Lahiri
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Category: Critical Thinking
Translating Myself and Others is a collection of disarmingly personal essays by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jhumpa Lahiri who reflects on her emerging identity as a translator as well as a writer in two languages. With subtlety and emotional immediacy. Lahiri draws on Ovid's myth of Echo and Narcissus ...Show more
Abandon Every Hope: Essays for the Dead by Hayley Singer
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Category: Critical Thinking
Abandon Every Hope mournfully investigates the literatures of the slaughterhouse and a world motivated by profitable death, to ultimately ask- where does this horror begin and how can it end?;Can anyone smell the suffering of souls? Of sadness, of hell on earth? Hell, I imagine, has a smell that bloats ...Show more
The New Leviathans: Thoughts After Liberalism by John Gray
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Category: Critical Thinking
A philosophical meeting of minds, as John Gray reads Thomas Hobbes to understand our current predicament Ever since its publication in 1651, Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan has unsettled and challenged how we understand the world. Condemned and vilified by each new generation, Hobbes' cold political vision co ...Show more
I Don't by Clementine Ford
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Category: Critical Thinking
Incendiary feminist and bestselling author Clementine Ford presents the inarguable case against marriage for the modern woman. Provocative, controversial and above all, compellingly and persuasively argued. I want this book to end marriages. But more importantly, I want it to prevent marriages. Women ...Show more
The Things We Live With: Essays on uncertainty by Gemma Nisbet
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Category: Critical Thinking
A meditation on the burden and joy of inheritance, and the strange power of the objects and keepsakes that connect us 'This is how I became interested in things. In their strange pull and power; in the ways they hold on to us and we to them.' After her father dies of cancer, Gemma Nisbet is inundated ...Show more
The Mirror and the Road: Conversations with William Boyd by William Boyd, Alistair Owen
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Category: Critical Thinking
'One of Britain's most celebrated contemporary novelists' Sunday TimesIn this probing series of exclusive interviews, Alistair Owen talks to William Boyd about his works and the life which has inspired them.The conversations which emerge are a deep-dive into film, art, theatre, literature and the life o ...Show more
On Peter Carey: Writers on Writers by Sarah Krasnostein
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Category: Critical Thinking
Award-winning writer Sarah Krasnostein shines new light on the impossibly vulnerable Ned Kelly of Peter Carey's True History of the Kelly Gang. Carey, who moved from Australia to America, conjured Kelly after seeing Sidney Nolan's paintings of the bushranger at the Met. In this moving essay Krasnostein, ...Show more
Kintsugi by Marie O'Rourke
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Category: Critical Thinking
These essays are a poignant reminder that some things cannot be fixed but can still hold immense beauty and meaning. All her life, Marie O'Rourke has been a Good Girl, a perfectionist, using words to apply golden seams to an imperfect life in an attempt to make something beautiful out of things that are ...Show more
Peripathetic: Notes on (un)belonging by Cher Tan
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Category: Critical Thinking
There was something so captivating about always being on the edge, on that shaky precipice of promise — something new and something cool was just lurking around the corner and we’d arrive at it if we kick around long enough. Peripathetic is about shit jobs. About being who you are and who you aren’t o ...Show more
Here be Monsters: Is Technology Reducing Our Humanity? by Richard King
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Category: Critical Thinking
Technology is developing fast — so fast that it threatens to overwhelm the very species whose genius lies in its technological cunning: us. From the metaverse to genetic engineering and mood-altering pharmaceuticals, to cybersex and cyberwar and the widespread automation of work, new technologies are re ...Show more
The Canceling of the American Mind: How Cancel Culture Undermines Trust, Destroys Institutions, and Threatens Us All by Greg Lukianoff, Rikki Schlott
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Category: Critical Thinking
A new way of thinking about cancel culture and the much-needed antidote for our dangerous and divisive times Cancel culture isn't just a moral panic- it erodes our ability to argue productively, listen generously and to be civil when we disagree. Whether on university campuses, in the workplace or on s ...Show more