Cover art for The Best Australian Essays 2016
Published
Black Inc., November 2016
ISBN
9781863958851
Format
Softcover, 320 pages
Dimensions
21cm × 13.7cm × 3.1cm

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'The essay creates a place for slow thought on hectic subjects, and that is what the best of this year's crop manage to do.' GEORDIE WILLIAMSON

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.

Maggie Mackellar In Sympathy- A Fugue

  • Ashley Hay The Bus Stop
  • Rebecca Giggs Whale Fall
  • Anwen Crawford The Noise Made By People
  • Melinda Harvey She Thinks She Is The Boss
  • Mireille Juchau The Most Holy Object in the House
  • Fiona Wright A World of Bald White Days
  • Vicki Hastrich Things Seen
  • Helen Garner This Old Self
  • Tegan Bennett Daylight Vagina
  • Jennifer Mills Detroit, I Do Mind
  • Fiona McGregor The Experience Machine
  • Michelle de Kretser Like a Thief in the Night
  • Jo Chandler Grave Barrier Reef
  • Anna Spargo-Ryan How to Love Football
  • Peter Goldsworthy Review of Chorale at the Crossing by Peter Porter
  • Gregory Day Review of John Kinsella's 'Drowning in Wheat'
  • J.M. Coetzee Introduction to Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier
  • James Bradley David Bowie- Loving the Alien
  • Galarrwuy Yunupingu Rom Watangu
  • Richard Flanagan Notes on the Syrian Exodus
  • Adam Rivett 35,000 Pieces of Converted Culture
  • Michael Winkler The Great Red Whale
  • Behrouz Boochani Life on Manus- The Island of the Damned
  • Martin McKenzie-Murray On Mass Shootings
  • Guy Rundle On Modern Terrorism
  • Clive James Play All
  • Julian Burnside What Sort of Country Are We?
  • Kim Scott Both Hands Full

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