Art Essays

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    • Essays on Art
    • By: Julian Barnes
    • Narrated by: Andrew Wincott
    • Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 07-05-2015
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Julian Barnes began writing about art with a chapter on Géricault's The Raft of the Medusa in his 1989 novel A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters. Since then he has written a series of essays, chiefly about French artists, for a variety of journals and magazines....

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    • By: C. S. Lewis
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 4 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 13-05-2005
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 122 ratings
    • In The Abolition of Man, C.S. Lewis looks at the curriculum of the English "prep school" and begins to wonder if this subliminal teaching....

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    • People and Places
    • By: Paul Theroux
    • Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
    • Length: 16 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 07-06-2018
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Drawing together a fascinating body of writing from over 14 years of work, Figures in a Landscape ranges from profiles of cultural icons to intimate personal remembrances....

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    • Art in an Emergency
    • By: Olivia Laing
    • Narrated by: Sophie Aldred
    • Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 16-04-2020
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • In this remarkable, inspiring collection of essays, acclaimed writer and critic Olivia Laing makes a brilliant case for why art matters, especially in the turbulent political weather of the 21st century....

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    • By: Marian Keyes
    • Narrated by: Aoife McMahon
    • Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 16-02-2016
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 93 ratings
    • You'll be wincing in recognition and scratching your head in incredulity, but like Marian herself you won't be able to stop laughing at the sheer delightful absurdity that is modern life....

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    • More Essays on Art and Democracy
    • By: Dave Hickey
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 14-11-2017
    • Language: English
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    • Dave Hickey is one of America's foremost critical iconoclasts, a trusted, even cherished no-nonsense voice commenting on the all-too-often nonsensical worlds of art and culture....

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    • By: David Sedaris
    • Narrated by: David Sedaris
    • Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 03-11-2020
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 93 ratings
    • What could be a more tempting Christmas gift than a compendium of David Sedaris' best stories, selected by the author himself? From a spectacular career spanning almost three decades, these stories have become modern classics and are now for the first time collected in one volume....

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    • By: Ann Patchett
    • Narrated by: Ann Patchett
    • Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 23-11-2021
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 90 ratings
    • An irresistible collection of essays and memoir from the internationally best-selling, Women’s Prize-winning author of The Dutch House....

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    • Essays
    • By: Tom Segura
    • Narrated by: Tom Segura
    • Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 14-06-2022
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 593 ratings
    • From a massively successful stand-up comedian and co-host of chart-topping podcasts “2 Bears 1 Cave” and “Your Mom’s House,” hilarious real-life stories of parenting, celebrity encounters, youthful mistakes, misanthropy, and so much more....

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    • Two Essays
    • By: Francis A. Schaeffer
    • Narrated by: Nadia May
    • Length: 1 hr and 50 mins
    • Release date: 06-02-2009
    • Language: English
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    • Art and the Bible has been a foundational work for generations of Christians in the arts....

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    • By: David Sedaris
    • Narrated by: David Sedaris
    • Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 02-06-2022
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 174 ratings
    • David Sedaris once again captures what is most unexpected, hilarious, and poignant about these recent upheavals, personal and public, and expresses in precise language both the misanthropy and desire for connection that drive us all....

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    • Some Things About Women and Notes on Media
    • By: Nora Ephron
    • Narrated by: Kathe Mazur
    • Length: 12 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 09-07-2013
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • Two classic collections of Nora Ephron’s uproarious essays - tackling everything from feminism to the media, from politics to beauty products, with her inimitable charm and distinctive wit - now available in one audiobook for the first time....

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    • Essays on Art, Sex, and the Mind
    • By: Siri Hustvedt
    • Narrated by: Caitlin Thorburn
    • Length: 23 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 01-12-2016
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • As well as being a prize-winning, best-selling novelist, Siri Hustvedt is widely regarded as a leading thinker in the fields of neurology, feminism, art criticism and philosophy....

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    • Selected Non-Fiction
    • By: Helen Garner
    • Narrated by: Helen Garner
    • Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 24-03-2017
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 59 ratings
    • Helen Garner visits the morgue, and goes cruising on a Russian ship. She sees women giving birth, and gets the sack for teaching her students about sex....

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    • A Literary Autobiography
    • By: William F. Buckley Jr.
    • Narrated by: William F. Buckley Jr.
    • Length: 18 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 01-08-2005
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • In this autobiography, woven from personal pieces composed over the course of a celebrated writing life of more than 50 years, you'll meet William Buckley the boy....

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    • The Official Biography
    • By: Rob Wilkins
    • Narrated by: Rob Wilkins
    • Length: 16 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 29-09-2022
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 40 ratings
    • At six years old, Terry was told by his headteacher that he would never amount to anything. He spent the rest of his life proving that teacher wrong....

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    • By: Joan Didion
    • Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
    • Length: 4 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 04-02-2021
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Twelve early pieces never before collected that offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of Joan Didion....

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    • Royal Bodies and Other Writing from the London Review of Books
    • By: Hilary Mantel
    • Narrated by: Olivia Dowd, Hilary Mantel - introduction
    • Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 01-10-2020
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • A collection of essays and memoir from two-time Booker Prize winner and international best seller Hilary Mantel....

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    • By: Hanif Abdurraqib
    • Narrated by: Hanif Abdurraqib
    • Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 15-11-2022
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • In essays that have been published by the New York Times, MTV, and Pitchfork, among others—Abdurraqib uses music and culture as a lens through which to view our world so that we might better understand ourselves, and in so doing proves himself a bellwether for our times....

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