The Best Australian Essays 2016

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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--Contributors include Maggie Mackellar, Ashley Hay, Rebecca Giggs, Anwen Crawford, Melinda Harvey, Mireille Juchau, Fiona Wright, Vicki Hastrich, Helen Garner, Tegan Bennett Daylight, Jennifer Mills, Fiona McGregor, Michelle de Kretser, Jo Chandler, Anna Spargo-Ryan, Peter Goldsworthy, Gregory Day, J.M. Coetzee, James Bradley, Galarrwuy Yunupingu, Richard Flanagan, Adam Rivett, Michael Winkler, Behrouz Boochani, Martin McKenzie-Murray, Guy Rundle, Clive James, Julian Burnside and Kim Scott.--Australian, a collection of essays on neglected Australian writers, in 2012. He lives in the Blue Mountains with his family.;Introduction; In Sympathy: A Fugue; The Bus Stop; Whale Fall; The Noise Made by People; She Thinks She Is the Boss; The Most Holy Object in the House; A World of Bald White Days; Things Seen; This Old Self; Vagina; Detroit, I Do Mind; The Experience Machine; Like a Thief in the Night; Grave Barrier Reef; How to Love Football; Review of Chorale at the Crossing by Peter Porter; Review of John Kinsella's Drowning in Wheat 173; Introduction to Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier; David Bowie: Loving the Alien; Rom Watangu; Notes on the Syrian Exodus.