The End of the End of the Earth by Jonathan Franzen
35.00 NZD
Category: Essays
A sharp and provocative new essay collection from the award-winning author of Freedom and The Corrections In The End of the End of the Earth, which gathers essays and speeches written mostly in the past five years, Jonathan Franzen returns with renewed vigour to the themes – both human and literary – th ...Show more
Tart and Bitter - Four Decades of Dining Nightmares by David Burton
29.99 NZD
Category: Essays
Over his long career as a restaurant critic, David Burton has written approximately 2000 restaurant reviews for The Dominion Post and its predecessor The Evening Post, as well as Cuisine magazine. Of these, the vast majority have been either positive or at least mixed. However, working on the principle ...Show more
Human Relations and Other Difficulties - The Collected Essays of Mary-Kay Wilmers by Mary-Kay Wilmers
29.99 NZD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: very good
Mary-Kay Wilmers has been a giant of the English literary world for decades. She was integral in the founding of LRB in 1979 during the year-long lock-out at The Times and has served as its editor in chief since 1992. Under her leadership, the magazine has pulled no punches and faced the inevitable cont ...Show more
1,000 Books to Read Before You Die - A Life-Changing List by James Mustich
79.99 NZD
Category: Essays
"The ultimate literary bucket list." --THE WASHINGTON POST Celebrate the pleasure of reading and the thrill of discovering new titles in an extraordinary book that's as compulsively readable, entertaining, surprising, and enlightening as the 1,000-plus titles it recommends.Covering fiction, poetr ...Show more
The Best of A. A. Gill by A A Gill
27.99 NZD
Category: Essays
For over twenty years, people turned to A. A. Gill's columns every Sunday - for his fearlessness, his perception, and the laughter-and-tear-provoking one-liners - but mostly because he was the best. 'By miles the most brilliant journalist of our age', as Lynn Barber put it. This is the definitive collec ...Show more
Shelf Life: Writers on books and reading by Alex Johnson
34.99 NZD
Category: Essays
Books: reading, collecting, and the physical housing of them has brought the book-lover joy and stress for centuries. Fascinated writers have tried to capture the particular relationships we form with our library, and the desperate troubles we will undergo to preserve it. With Alex Johnson as your guide ...Show more
Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises (and Essays) by Rebecca Solnit
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Category: Essays
In this powerful and wide-ranging collection of essays, Rebecca Solnit turns her attention to the war at home. This is a war, she says, "with so many casualties that we should call it by its true name, this war with so many dead by police, by violent ex-husbands and partners and lovers, by people pursui ...Show more
That F Word: Growing up Feminist in Aotearoa by Lizzie Marvelly
35.00 NZD
Category: Essays
A wake-up call and a battle-cry for all Kiwi women Lizzie Marvelly tells the story of New Zealand's feminist roots, then traverses the modern landscape, tearing apart areas of gender imbalance and pervading attitudes to Kiwi women. In particular, Lizzie examines how men have been brought up with certain ...Show more
Women Now: The Legacy of Female Suffrage by Bronwyn Labrum
35.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Series: Te Papa Thinking About
Its 125 years since New Zealand women won the right to vote. But the battle for the right to so much else is ongoing. This first volume in the Te Papa Thinking About series brings together provocative, insightful and energetically argued essays by 12 leading New Zealand writers and thinkers, based aroun ...Show more
Art Matters: Because Your Imagination Can Change the World by Neil Gaiman
27.99 NZD
Category: Essays
A creative call to arms from the mind of Neil Gaiman, combining his extraordinary words with deft and striking illustrations by Chris Riddell. Art Matters will inspire its readers to seize the day in the name of art. 'Like a bedtime story for the rest of your life, this is a book to live by. At its core ...Show more
The Illustrated Emerson - Essays and Poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson; David Mikics (Introduction by)
39.99 NZD
Category: Essays | Series: Illustrated Classic Editions Ser.
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) was an American essayist and poet. One of the young nation's first recognized public intellectuals, he championed the writing of Henry David Thoreau and Walt Whitman and opined on everything from the evils of slav ...Show more
Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture by Roxane Gay (Editor)
29.99 NZD
Category: Essays
Edited and with an introduction by Roxane Gay, the New York Times bestselling and deeply beloved author of Bad Feminist and Hunger, this anthology of first-person essays tackles rape, assault, and harassment head-on. Vogue, 10 of the Most Anticipated Books of Spring 2018 Harper's Bazaar, 10 New Books to ...Show more