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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A collection of essays exploring femininity, self-image and performance in the lives of iconic famous women'Turns female celebrity inside-out. One of the most enjoyable books of the year' Nicole Flattery, author of Show Them A Good…
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"The other vision, the other path, the other road..." In 2014, London being crap, English artist and interventionist Stanley Schtinter moved to Athens. The Greek capital, many claimed, was in no state at all, somewhere between freefall and…
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Yoko Tawada's first book of essays in English, both a brilliant exploration of language and its relationship to power, colonialism and history and an introduction to an electrifying new side of the National Book Award…
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‘A masterpiece. One by one, the so-called important books of our time will be forgotten, but Joe Brainard’s modest little gem will endure.’ Paul AusterWith a new introduction by Olivia Laing, alongside Paul…
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A deeply moving and revelatory reading experience, the essays collected in Portrait of an Island on Fire form a searing account of Mauritius at a crucial moment in its history. Unceasing in its critiques of racist, patriarchal…
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David Wojnarowicz, one of the most provocative artists of his generation, explores memory, violence, and the erotism of public space—all under the specter of AIDS.Here are David Wojnarowicz’s most intimate stories and…
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“All hail Abi Palmer’s Slugs: A Manifesto, at once an addictive art world gossip column, a crip phenomenology, and a glistening, utopian theory of gender, queerness and desire. From these sticky trails the slug emerges as a…
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FROM PRIZE-WINNING CULTURAL HISTORIAN – AN UNMISSABLE ANALYSIS OF THE CONCEPT AND ETHICS OF SANCTUARYSanctuary is an ancient right. But what does it mean today? Drawing on a lifetime of engagement with literature, myth, history and…
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This highly anticipated book by the Pulitzer Prize winning critic Andrea Long Chu asks one of the most urgent questions of our time: what is authority when everyone has an opinion on everything?'Her writing is razor-sharp, personal,…
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A vibrant exploration of the world’s newest language—where it came from, how it works, and where it’s going. We are surrounded by emoji. They appear in politics, movies, drug deals, our sex lives, and more. But…
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