Essays

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  Reflections on the Guillotine

  ‘When silence or tricks of language contribute to maintaining an abuse that must be reformed or a suffering that can be relieved, then there is no...
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  Regarding the Pain of Others

  Regarding the Pain of Others is Susan Sontag's searing analysis of our numbed response to images of horror   What is the purpose of images...
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  Reordering the World: Essays on Liberalism and Empire

  Reordering the World is a penetrating account of the complexity and contradictions found in liberal visions of empire Focusing mainly on...
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  Salleh Ben Joned: Truth, Beauty, Amok and Belonging

  Salleh Ben Joned Poet Critic Dramatist And legend in his own lifetime Salleh had a strong sense of the absurd and he playfully challenged taboos on...
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  See/Saw: Looking at Photographs

  See/Saw is an illuminating history of how photographs frame and change our perspectives Starting from single images by the world's most important...
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  Selected Essays of John Berger

  Booker wining novelist, playwright, essayist, poet and critic - even admirers rarely know John Berger in all his literary incarnations This...
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  Shooting an Elephant

  Shooting an Elephant is Orwell's searing and painfully honest account of his experience as a police officer in imperial Burma; killing an escaped...
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  Signals in the Noise: Notes on Penang, Malaysia and the World

  Malaysia is no easy country to analyse, or even to understand With so many narratives about the country, its peoples and histories, the noise...
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  Speaking Out: Lectures and Speeches, 1937-58

  A new collection of Albert Camus' most brilliant speeches and lectures   'Truth is mysterious, fleeting, always to be won Freedom is...
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  Stuff Matters: The Strange Stories of the Marvellous Materials That Shape Our Man-made World

  Everything is made of something From the everyday objects in our homes to the most extraordinary new materials that will shape our future, Stuff...
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  Tapau: The Best of Malaysian Food Writing 2000–2022 Anthology

  For all our differences, Malaysians find commonality in one thing: we want you to be well-fed Savour these small packages of good writing, covering a...
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  The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-centered Planet

  The Anthropocene is the current geologic age, in which humans have profoundly reshaped the planet and its biodiversity In this remarkable symphony...
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  The Best of Mekong Review

  Over the past three years, the Mekong Review has transformed itself from an obscure magazine born in Cambodia to an acclaimed quarterly of culture...
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  The Clothing of Books

  How do you clothe a book In this deeply personal reflection, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Jhumpa Lahiri explores the art of the book jacket...
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  The David Foster Wallace Reader

  Discover one of the most celebrated writers of our age - the visionary author of Infinite Jest and A Supposedly Fun Thing I Will Never Do...
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  The Elections Bullshit

  No bullshit writer Kee Thuan Chye tells the story of Malaysia’s 13th general election (GE13) before, during and after polling day (May 5, 2013)...
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  The Empathy Exams

  A powerful yet refreshing essay collection centred around themes of confession, illness, violence and sentimentality from an exciting new American...
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  The End of the End of the Earth

  From Jonathan Franzen, one of our preeminent writers and thinkers, comes a brilliant, searing essay collection that calls for us to take better care...
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