New and Recommended: Essays
Selected by the Bookshop
There’s something for everyone in our Essays section. Have a look at our recent favourites.
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Where, or what, is home? What has it meant, historically and personally, to be ‘Italian’ or ‘English’, or both in a culture that prefers us to choose? What does it mean to have roots? Or to have left a piece of…
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EDITED BY DR. KAVITA BHANOT AND JEREMY TIANGContributors include Gitanjali Patel, Nariman Youssef, Kaiama L. Glover, Aaron Robertson, Khairani Barokka, Anton Hur, Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi, Eluned Gramich, Sofia Rehman, Layla Benitez-James,…
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The body as a measuring tool for planetary harm. A nervous system under increasing stress.…
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A beautifully written suite of personal essays on the value of not knowingMoments of clarity are rare and fleeting; how can we become comfortable outside of them, in the more general condition of uncertainty within which we make our lives?…
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A penetrating analysis of the work of one of the most influential painters in the history of modern art by one of the world’s most respected art historiansFor more than a century the art of Paul Cézanne was deemed to hold the…
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The encyclopaedia once shaped our understanding of the world.Created by thousands of scholars and the most obsessive of editors, adults cleared their shelves in the belief that wisdom was now effortlessly accessible in their living rooms.…
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'Funny, smart, brilliant . . . a tour de force' Kasim Ali, author of Good Intentions'Insanely erudite, and absolutely necessary for our times' Gina Apostol, author of Gun Dealer's Daughter 'Energetically brilliant, warmly humane, incisively…
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Translated by Sophie HughesWinner of The British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding 2022.“When Women Kill is a highly original and beautifully written work, which uncovers uncomfortable truths about a society…
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'One of the most electrifying writers at work in America today, among the sharpest and most supple thinkers of her generation' OLIVIA LAINGWhat can freedom really mean? In this invigorating, essential book, Maggie Nelson explores how…
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