Art Essays

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    • Essays on Art
    • By: Julian Barnes
    • Narrated by: Andrew Wincott
    • Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 07-05-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 57 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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    • People and Places
    • By: Paul Theroux
    • Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
    • Length: 16 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 07-06-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 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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    • Two Essays
    • By: Francis A. Schaeffer
    • Narrated by: Nadia May
    • Length: 1 hr and 50 mins
    • Release date: 06-02-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • Art and the Bible has been a foundational work for generations of Christians in the arts....

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    • By: Marian Keyes
    • Narrated by: Aoife McMahon
    • Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 16-02-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 509 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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    • Essays
    • By: Tom Segura
    • Narrated by: Tom Segura
    • Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 14-06-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 770 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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    • I Just Want to Pee Alone Series, Book 1
    • By: Some Kickass Mom Bloggers, Jen Mann - editor
    • Narrated by: Vanessa Daniels
    • Length: 5 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 16-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 1 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Motherhood is the toughest - and funniest - job you'll ever love. Raising kids is hard work. The pay sucks, your boss is a tyrant, and the working conditions are pitiful - you can't even take a bathroom break without being interrupted with another demand. Hear these hysterical essays....

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    • Essays
    • By: Zadie Smith
    • Narrated by: Nikki Amuka-Bird
    • Length: 13 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 08-02-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 74 ratings
    • The one and only Zadie Smith, prize-winning, best-selling author of White Teeth, is back with a second unmissable collection of essays. No subject is too fringe or too mainstream....

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    • By: Leo Tolstoy
    • Narrated by: Geoffrey Blaisdell
    • Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 05-08-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 40 ratings
    • Tolstoy claims that all good art is related to the authentic life of the broader community....

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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: 01-12-16
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 23 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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    • The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce
    • By: Colm Tóibín
    • Narrated by: Colm Tóibín
    • Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 25-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 49 ratings
    • In Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know, Colm Tóibín turns his incisive gaze to three of Ireland's greatest writers, Oscar Wilde, W. B. Yeats and James Joyce, and their earliest influences: their fathers....

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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: 01-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • A collection of essays and memoir from two-time Booker Prize winner and international best seller Hilary Mantel....

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    • Art in an Emergency
    • By: Olivia Laing
    • Narrated by: Sophie Aldred
    • Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 16-04-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 73 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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    • Selected Essays from a Career of Courting Self-Destruction
    • By: Lionel Shriver
    • Narrated by: Lionel Shriver
    • Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 15-09-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 30 ratings
    • Bringing together thirty-five works curated from her many columns, features, essays and op-eds for the likes of the Spectator and Guardian, speeches and reviews, and some unpublished pieces, Abominations reveals Shriver at her most iconoclastic and personal....

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    • By: Jenny Diski
    • Narrated by: Kim Hicks
    • Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 31-05-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • In August 2014 Jenny Diski was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer and given 'two or three years' to live. She didn't know how to react. All responses felt scripted, laden with cliché....

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    • By: Joan Didion
    • Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
    • Length: 4 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 04-02-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • Twelve early pieces never before collected that offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of Joan Didion....

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    • By: Colm Tóibín
    • Narrated by: Colm Tóibín
    • Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 03-11-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • In his essay about the life of Irish writer John McGahern, Tóibín reveals the tones of melancholy and amusement within both art and the artist....

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    • Essays and Conversations
    • By: Maggie Nelson
    • Narrated by: Senn Annis
    • Length: 12 hrs
    • Release date: 23-05-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Like Love is a momentous, raucous collection of essays drawn from twenty years of Maggie Nelson's brilliant work. These profiles, reviews, remembrances, tributes and critical essays, as well as several conversations with friends and idols, bring to life Nelson's passion for dialogue and dissent....

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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: 09-07-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 35 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 book for the first time.....

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    • By: Peter Mayle
    • Narrated by: Robin Sachs
    • Length: 4 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 22-07-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 42 ratings
    • Acquired Tastes explores an aspect of human nature that, although dormant in hard economic times, is capable of erupting with the hint of good fortune and the drop of a credit card....

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