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Root & Branch: Essays on Inheritance
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Reflections on reading and writing from the author of My Brilliant Friend.
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These Precious Days
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A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
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Everybody
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Blueberries
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The Hard Crowd
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Women of a Certain Rage
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A Little Devil in America: In Praise of Black Performance
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Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race
The book that sparked a national conversation.
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All About Love: New Visions
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Thick And Other Essays
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A History of My Brief Body
A dazzling collection of personal essays from internationally acclaimed First Nations Canadian writer Billy-Ray Belcourt, who mines his own personal history to reconcile the world he was born into with the world that could be.
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So Sad Today: personal essays
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A collection of essays on feminism, from one of the most important and original public intellectuals writing today
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A stunning collection of essays using music as a vantage point through which to examine and interrogate the world we live in.
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Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
What happens to our behaviour when we live most of our lives online? What does it mean to 'always be optimising'? And what is it about scams and the millennial generation?
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In the Land of the Cyclops
In the Land of the Cyclops is Karl Ove Knausgaard's first collection of essays to be published in English, and these brilliant and wide-ranging pieces meditate on themes familiar from his groundbreaking fiction.
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