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By Drusilla Modjeska. 2006
It has been a good year for essays. The latest Best Essays annual contains life and travel stories, explorations of…
art and politics, that will illuminate and divert. There is Robert Hughes on Rembrandt, and Gideon Haigh on Google. J.M. Coetzee on translation, and David Malouf on Shakespeare. Robyn Davidson goes to Tibet, and Hazel Rowley to Brazil in search of Sartre and de Beauvoir. And there are pieces on many of the year’s key political and social stories that bring depth and eloquence to the public conversation.By Robert Dessaix. 2004
A rich and diverse collection of essays, compiled by one of Australia's most respected writers, Robert Dessaix. It ranges across…
a variety of styles: some selections are quirkily seductive, others urgent and persuasive, still others spell-binding lieterary performances. Richard Flanagan writes an impassioned piece on Tasmania's forests, Thomas Keneally charmingly recounts the beginnings of "Schindler's Ark", and Marion Halligan and Ane-Marie Priest provide two different takes on the erotics of reading. Other contributors to this edition include: John Birmingham, J.M. Coetzee, M.J. Hyland, Peter Mares and Chris Wallace-Crabbe as well as many more.By Anna Goldsworthy. 2017
The Best Australian Essays showcase the nation's most eloquent, insightful and urgent non-fiction writing. In her first time as editor,…
award-winning author Anna Goldsworthy chooses brilliant pieces that provoke, unveil, engage and enlighten, and get to the heart of what's really happening in Australia and the world. Previous contributors include Helen Garner, J.M. Coetzee, Karen Hitchcock, Tim Flannery, Robyn Davidson, Richard Flanagan, Clive James, Don Watson, Tim Winton and Caroline Baum.By Geordie Williamson. 2016
In The Best Australian Essays 2016, Geordie Williamson curates the year’s best non-fiction writing from Australia’s finest writers. The result…
is a collection that reads as a wake-up call: from Jo Chandler on the devastating bleaching of the Great Barrier Reef and Richard Flanagan on the Syrian exodus to Kurdish-Iranian journalist Behrouz Boochani’s inside account of life on Manus Island. There is also space for Bowie, TV box-sets and Aussie rules. Spanning politics, music, literature, art, ecology, linguistics and more, this anthology showcases the nation’s most eloquent and insightful writing.By Geordie Williamson. 2015
In The Best Australian Essays 2015, Geordie Williamson compiles the year’s outstanding short non-fiction. Read Helen Garner on condescension, DBC…
Pierre on travel, Ceridwen Dovey on autobiography, Tim Winton on injury, Anna Krien on first love, and Nicolas Rothwell on the northern coast. With bracing essays on politics, music, literature, history, art, sport and more, this impressive anthology will entrance, stimulate and entertain.By Robert Manne. 2013
In The Best Australian Essays 2013, Robert Manne draws out this year’s most distinctive voices. This superb collection encompasses the…
personal, with Robert Dessaix’s distant summer of love and touch-typing and Helen Garner’s reaction to the death of Jill Meagher; and the political, with Chloe Hooper and Pamela Williams reflecting on the last days in office of Gillard and Rudd, while Christos Tsiolkas tells us why we hate asylum seekers and Julian Assange warns of the internet’s threat to civilisation. In the spaces between, Richard Flanagan and Murray Bail peer into the world of art, David Free savours the legacy of Monty Python, Julian Meyrick remembers Margaret Thatcher, and Tim Flannery reveals the terrors of jellyfish.By Ramona Koval. 2011
The Best Australian Essays 2011 offers up bliss and illumination in equal measure - from the pleasures of the flesh…
to the events that convulsed the world in a year of change. Paul Kelly meditates on Frank Sinatra, and Robert Manne excavates the past and thoughts of Julian Assange. Inga Clendinnen dreams on cricket memories, and Anna Krien delves into the saga of the St Kilda schoolgirl. There is Peter Robb on Italian food, Anthony Lane on News of the World, Gail Bell on rats and Richard Flanagan on photography. This is a collection with something for everyone that never wavers in its quality. Contributors include: Gillian Mears, David Malouf, Nicolas Rothwell, Robert Manne, Anthony Lane, M.J. Hyland, Craig Sherborne, Anna Krien, Inga Clendinnen, Gail Bell, Helen Elliott, Morris Lurie, Maria Tumarkin, Andrew Sant, Shakira Hussein, Lian Hearn, Amanda Lohrey, Paul Kelly, Peter Robb, Clive James, Delia Falconer, Richard Flanagan and Andrew O'Hagan.By Robert Dessaix. 2005
The Best Australian Essays 2005 is a rich and diverting collection of essays, compiled by one of Australia's finest writers,…
Robert Dessaix. It ranges across a variety of styles: some selections are quirkily seductive, others urgent and persuasive while still others are spellbinding literary performances. This selection includes visits to Freud's art collection, to the beach and to the end of the world. There are film-star portraits and political dissections, quirky stories, nostalgic journeys and up-to-the-minute social analyses.By Alice Walker. 2005
From the author of The Color Purple, a unique collection of essays about her life and her activism. In a…
world where cynicism and political apathy is commonplace, Alice Walker believes that the things we treasure, and the world we live in, can all be saved if only we will act. Beginning with an autobiographical essay about the roots of her own activism, she then goes on to explore diverse public issues such as single parenthood, freedom of the press, civil rights and religion.By David Mitchell. 1982
This book quotes the direct testimony of dozens of eyewitnesses, who observed fellow-countrymen settling old scores with unparalleled ferocity. For…
many foreign nationals it was a simple clash of right and wrong - for the Spanish there were many causes.By Chelsea Watego. 2021
A ground-breaking work - and a call to arms - that exposes the ongoing colonial violence experienced by First Nations…
people.In this collection of deeply insightful and powerful essays, Chelsea Watego examines the ongoing and daily racism faced by First Nations peoples in so-called Australia. Rather than offer yet another account of 'the Aboriginal problem', she theorises a strategy for living in a social world that has only ever imagined Indigenous peoples as destined to die out.Drawing on her own experiences and observations of the operations of the colony, she exposes the lies that settlers tell about Indigenous people. In refusing such stories, Chelsea tells her own: fierce, personal, sometimes funny, sometimes anguished. She speaks not of fighting back but of standing her ground against colonialism in academia, in court, and in media. It's a stance that takes its toll on relationships, career prospects, and even the body. Yet when told to have hope, Watego's response rings clear: Fuck hope. Be sovereign.By Geert Mak. 2008
Geert Mak spent 1999 crisscrossing Europe, tracing the history of the continent from Verdun to Berlin, from Saint Petersburg to…
Auschwitz, from Kiev to Srebrenica. He set off in search of evidence and witnesses, looking to define the condition of Europe on the cusp of a new millennium. The result is an account of that journey, full of diaries, newspaper reports, and memoirs, and the voices of prominent figures and unknown players - from a grandson of Kaiser Wilhelm II to Adriana Warno, the eighteen-year-old ticket taker at the gate of the Birkenau concentration camp in Poland.