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Explore bold ideas, personal reflections, and powerful commentary in our Essays collection at Harry Hartog Bookseller. Shop online or in-store for celebrated authors and emerging voices across every subject and style.
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On Witness and Respair
Jesmyn Ward
'One of the most important writers in America today' ANN PATCHETT 'Ward writes like a...
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Dead and Alive
Zadie Smith
An illuminating new essay collection from one of the most distinctive, exciting and acclaimed writers...
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Sez I to Myself
Frank McCourt
A treasure chest of never-before-collected essays from Frank McCourt, Pulitzer Prize-winning memoirist, and his boisterous...
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Reasoning with Chaos
Waleed Aly
Day after day, we're bombarded with the drumbeat of news that veers from the shocking...
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Storytelling
Isabel Allende
'A grand storyteller who writes with surpassing compassion and insight ... She will be celebrated,...
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Flyboy in the Buttermilk
Greg Tate
An electrifying collection of essays from legendary cultural critic Greg Tate, with an introduction by...
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Essays Two
Lydia Davis
Lydia Davis returns with a timeless collection of essays on literature and language 'Precise, concentrated,...
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Truth and Consequence
Daniel Ellsberg
From the legendary Pentagon Papers whistleblower and anti-war activist-a posthumous collection of Daniel Ellsberg's previously...
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A Hitch in Time
Christopher Hitchens
In this outstanding collection, essayist Christopher Hitchens's works are shared-a must-have for Hitchens completists seeking...
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The Notes
Ronald Reagan
Collected by the Ronald Reagan Foundation, The Notes is a fascinating window into the mind...
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A Book of Days
Patti Smith
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A deeply moving and brilliantly idiosyncratic visual book of days...
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Time of Monsters
Waleed Aly
Do we still believe in progress? In this wonderfully clarifying essay, Waleed Aly examines what...
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How I Became A Socialist
William Morris
William Morris is famous as a designer, poet and artist, but his work as a...
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Nine Yard Sarees
Prasanthi Ram
Winner of the 2024 Singapore Literature Prize Grandmother. Mothers. Daughters. Aunts. Girlfriends. Beloved. Estranged. Becoming....
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The Waterfront Journals
David Wojnarowicz
A visceral and carnivalesque mosaic of life at the fringes The Waterfront Journals is a...
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Brave New World Revisited Vintage Classics
Huxley Aldous
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Ambivalence
Brian Dillon
When Brian Dillon was sixteen his mother died and he simply gave up all schoolwork....
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Outsider Everywhere
Mercedes Halfon
In August 1939, a ship flying the Polish flag docked in Buenos Aires. On board...
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Wild Fictions
Amitav Ghosh
'Brims with ideas and insights . . . Ghosh is at his sparkling best' IRISH...
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Read This to Look Cool
Maeve Dunigan
For fans of Dolly Alderton or Samantha Irby, Read This to Look Cool is a...
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New York Sketches
E.B. White
E. B. White's greatest stories, asides, essays, jokes, and tall tales about the city he...
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The God We Made
Anna Goldsworthy
Humanity in the age of AI How will we be changed by the rise of...
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On Reflection
Richard Holloway
In On Reflection Richard Holloway thinks back on some of the questions that have shaped...
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Displaced
Valery Panyushkin
In Displaced, Russian journalist Valery Panyushkin chronicles the devastating impact of his country's invasion of...
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Silent Catastrophes
W. G. Sebald
From acclaimed critic, novelist and academic W. G. Sebald, author of Austerlitz and The Rings...
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Representations of the Intellectual
Edward W. Said
Are intellectuals merely the servants of special interests or do they have a larger responsibility?...
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Unique and Unspoilt
Bernadett Hince
Unique and Unspoilt is based on the journals of John Bechervaise during his 13 months...
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In Praise of Shadows and Other Essays
Junichiro Tanizaki
Illustrated with artful images by renowned Kyoto-based photographer John Einarsen, this book is a 'must-have'...
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