Griffith Review 79: Counterfeit Culture by Carody Culver (Editor)
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Category: Literary Essays | Series: Griffith Review Ser.
'A faker,' said Orson Welles, 'makes fools of the experts. So, who's the expert? Who’s the faker?'Griffith Review 79 lifts the curtain on fakes, frauds and forgeries. Treading the tightrope between art and lies, it explores the appeal of stories, objects, bodies or experiences that offer the false promi ...Show more
Griffith Review 80 Creation Stories by Culver Carody
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Category: Literary Essays | Series: Griffith Review Ser.
The capacity to tell stories — along with language and the ability to create art — is seen as both intrinsic and unique to the human species. Over thousands of years, we’ve forged narratives of our origins, our journeys and our dreams as a means of accounting for who we are and to define our place in th ...Show more
Griffith Review 81 the Leisure Principle by GRIFFITH
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Category: Literary Essays | Series: Griffith Review Ser.
In 1930, John Maynard Keynes spelt out a vision of the impending utopia. Work, he said, will become a thing of the past. ‘For the first time since creation,’ he predicted, ‘man will be faced with his real, his permanent problem — how to occupy the leisure which science…will have won for him.’So where di ...Show more
Griffith Review 82: Animal Magic
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Category: Literary Essays | Series: Griffith Review Ser.
Whether it’s man’s best friend or the king of the jungle, animals occupy a central place in our social, emotional and cultural lives. We’re happy as clams or pigs in mud; we hold our horses or take a lion’s share of what we want; we avoid the elephant in the room or try not to open a can of worms. Anima ...Show more
Griffith Review 83 Past Perfect
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Category: Literary Essays | Series: Griffith Review Ser.
The past, famously, is a foreign country — but in the twenty-first century, it’s one in which we increasingly seek solace. No matter the relentless pace of technological innovation and the digitisation of everything from money to media – our appetites for retro design and aesthetics, for cultural produc ...Show more
HEAT Series 3 Number 1 by Christine Alexandra
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Category: Literary Essays | Series: Heat Ser.
HEAT, Giramondo’s celebrated literary journal, relaunches in a third series.‘An edgy and enormously influential literary magazine…’ – The Australian‘A really lively magazine like HEAT can create the occasion for new writing as well as being an outlet for it, a wish on the part of writers to write up to ...Show more
HEAT Series 3 Number 2 by Alexandra Christie (Editor)
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Category: Literary Essays | Series: Heat Ser.
'I welcome the return of HEAT. Writers and readers alike will revel in its daring audacity, bold exploration and innovative celebration of literature.’ — Alexis WrightArriving in letterboxes in April, the second issue in HEAT’s new series makes for a vibrant cabinet of literary curiosities. On the ficti ...Show more
House Arrest: Pandemic Diaries by Alan Bennett
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Category: Literary Essays
Reflections on Covid and confinement from the unparalleled pen of Alan Bennett. 4 March. HMQ pictured in the paper at an investiture wearing gloves, presumably as a precaution against Coronavirus. But not just gloves; these are almost gauntlets. I hope they're not the thin end of a precautionary wedge ...Show more
How to End a Story: Diaries 1995-1998 by Helen Garner
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Category: Literary Essays
Helen Garner's third volume of diaries is an account of a woman fighting to hold on to a marriage that is disintegrating around her. Living with a powerfully ambitious writer who is consumed by his work, and trying to find a place for her own spirit to thrive, Helen Garner rails against the confines. A ...Show more
In Praise of Ageing by Patricia Edgar
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Category: Literary Essays
Retirement is not the time to cut all ties and head off to live in a warm climate but rather to ask: Who do I want to be near? How will my relationships be reaffirmed? What do I care about? What can I create and contribute to the world? Meet Jim Brierley, who was still jumping out of planes aged eighty- ...Show more
In Praise of Idleness - A Timeless Essay by Bertrand Russell
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Category: Literary Essays
New York Times bestselling author Bradley Trevor Greive breathes new life into Bertrand Russell’s classic work, In Praise of Idleness, with a magical package that includes BTG’s new introduction, biographical afterword, historical notes, additional quotations and comic illustrations. This is the perfect ...Show more
In Tearing Haste: Letters Between Deborah Devonshire and Patrick Leigh Fermor by Patrick Leigh Fermor; Deborah Mitford; Charlotte Mosley (Editor); Deborah Devonshire
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Category: Literary Essays | Reading Level: very good
In spring 1956, Deborah, Duchess of Devonshire - youngest of the six legendary Mitford sisters - invited the writer and war hero Patrick Leigh Fermor to visit Lismore Castle, the Devonshires' house in Ireland. This halcyon visit sparked off a deep friendship and a lifelong exchange of sporadic but highl ...Show more