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How Do We Know We're Doing It Right? Essays on Modern Life by Pandora Sykes
$40.00 NZD
Category: Essays & Anthologies
'Pandora is my personal guru on all things relating to the zeitgeist. How lucky you are that she can now be yours too.' - Dolly Alderton Modern life is full of choices. We're told that happiness lies within and we can be whoever we want to be. But with endless possibility comes a feeling of restlessnes ...Show more
Vesper Flights by Helen Macdonald
$38.00 NZD
Category: Essays & Anthologies
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 we think we know about ourselves. From the internationally acclaimed author of H is for Hawk comes Vesper Flights, a transcendent collection of essays about the human relationship to th ...Show more
Approaching Eye Level by Vivian Gornick
$25.00 NZD
Category: Essays & Anthologies
Vivian Gornick's writing has always explored the hard truths of existence: the nature of human loneliness, and the struggle to love, work, and connect. In these seven seminal essays Gornick chronicles the New York streets that energise her, and looks back on the dangerously charged atmosphere of the Cat ...Show more
Why Didn't You Just Do What You Were Told? - Essays by Jenny Diski
$39.00 NZD
Category: Essays & Anthologies
A collection of the best of the indomitable Jenny Diski's essays, "one of the great anomalies of contemporary literature" (The New York Times Magazine), selected by London Review of Books editor Mary-Kay Wilmers. "She expanded notions about what nonfiction, as an art form, could do and could be." --New ...Show more
Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write - An Autobiography Through Essays by Claire Messud
$35.00 NZD
Category: Essays & Anthologies
Arranged in three parts, Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write opens with Claire's most personal essays - reflections on a childhood divided between cultures, and between dueling models of womanhood. It is here, in these early years, that we see the seeds of Messud's inquiry into the ...Show more
So Sad Today: Personal Essays by Melissa Broder
$35.00 NZD
Category: Essays & Anthologies
So sad today? Many are. Melissa Broder is too. How and why did she get to be so sad? And should she stay sad? She asks herself these questions over and over here, turning them into a darkly mesmerising and strangely uplifting reading experience through coruscating honesty and a total lack of self-deceit ...Show more
Wordy: Sounding off about high art, low appetite and the power of memory by Simon Schama
$27.00 NZD
Category: Essays & Anthologies
'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
Funny Weather - Art in an Emergency by Olivia Laing
$50.00 NZD
Category: Essays & Anthologies
'A brave writer whose books open up fundamental questions about life and art' Telegraph In this remarkable, inspiring collection of essays, acclaimed writer and critic Olivia Laing makes a brilliant case for why art matters, especially in the turbulent political weather of the twenty first century. Funn ...Show more
The Selected Works of Audre Lorde by Audre Lorde; Roxane Gay (Editor)
$40.00 NZD
Category: Essays & Anthologies
Self-described "black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet" Audre Lorde is an unforgettable voice in twentieth-century literature, and one of the first to center the experiences of black, queer women. This essential reader showcases her indelible contributions to intersectional feminism, queer theory, and cr ...Show more
Race: Vintage Minis by Toni Morrison
$10.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
Is who we are really only skin deep? In this searing, remonstrative book, Toni Morrison unravels race through the stories of those debased and dehumanised because of it. A young black girl longing for the blue eyes of white baby dolls spirals into inferiority and confusion. A friendship falls apart ove ...Show more
Your Silence Will Not Protect You: Essays and Poems by Audre Lorde
$39.00 NZD
Category: Feminism
Audre Lorde (1934-1992) described herself as 'Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet'. Born in New York, she had her first poem published while still at school and her last the year she died of cancer. Her extraordinary belief in the power of language - of speaking - to foster selfhood, articulate injust ...Show more
Fat, Pretty, and Soon to Be Old - A Makeover for Self and Society by Kimberly Dark
$26.00 NZD
Category: Feminism
Fat, Pretty, and Soon to be Old is a moving, funny, and startlingly frank collection of personal essays about what it means to look a certain way. Or rather, certain ways. Navigating Kimberly Dark's experience of being fat since childhood--as well as queer, white-privileged, a gender-confirming "girl w ...Show more
