Magda Szubanski’s books are not conventional celebrity memoirs. She doesn’t name-drop or frame her story as one of triumph.
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New Nobel winner Anne Carson’s playful, deeply intelligent work riffs off and reinvents ancient classics – and often lands with breathtaking emotional force.
Space is a frontier where we could do things differently, yet we are replicating the same patterns of commerce and control.
Catherine Chidgey’s novel The Starving Bride is a disturbing and bleakly funny portrait of a society attempting to distract itself from mounting disasters.
The enduring value of The God Delusion lies in its championing of reasoning and evidence, free speech and thinking for oneself.
In Trip Reports, journalist Rich Haridy (a self-confessed ‘psychonaut’) dives into the science of psychedelic medicine and developments in Australia.
Laura Elizabeth Woollett’s Hell Days explores her diagnosis of PMDD, an extreme form of premenstrual syndrome – drawing on research, interviews, reading and more.
What right did settler society have to intervene in Aboriginal life? The humanitarian tradition has no adequate answers, says Barry Corr.
Hilary McPhee co-founded McPhee Gribble, the legendary Australian publishing house responsible for Monkey Grip, Puberty Blues and Cloudstreet.
The rebellious teen narrating J.D. Salinger’s classic novel of arrested development still speaks to us. But should we be listening?
In Mine, Adam Ouston reveals the contradictions between Tasmania’s conception of itself and its history of human and environmental devastation.
Libraries are turning to social media to connect with their communities – with brilliant, often hilarious results. On the way, they’ve launched some unlikely stars.
The latest literary AI scandal forces us to question what we expect of writers. Some French authors argue AI is now part of our lives – and authorship is evolving.
In The Twilight Before the Storm, global strategist Viktor Shvets charts the shift from the fractured 1930s to today’s crisis culture.
The Broad Bean Sermon, while not his best-known poem, shows why Les Murray is considered by some to be Australia’s preeminent poet.
Charles Spencer’s book is as much about him as about the sister he claims to speak for. Beneath the score-settling, it’s a story of a brother still grieving.
Terry Denton was wickedly funny, unpretentious and won multiple awards for his illustrations – and sold millions with Andy Griffiths. He will be dreadfully missed.
Psychologist Steve Stewart-Williams’ third book about evolutionary psychology is A Billion Years of Sex Differences: How Evolution Shaped the Minds of Men and Women.
Ahead of the release of Charles Spencer’s controversial memoir, Dennis Altman picks 5 reads shedding light on the British monarchy.
There is a ‘deep disquiet’ within liberal democracies: a feeling, manifested on both sides of politics, that the conventional order has failed and is beyond reform.
Neha Kale’s A Foreign Return: on art and habitation is an unusual blend of memoir and art criticism, spanning continents and time.
Emily St John Mandel’s new novel presents divergent visions of our world and future – particularly of the US as a state at a crossroads.
Foreign ‘invasion plots’ have featured in Australian literature for more than a century. Though critiqued by some authors, fears of white erasure endure.
Two new books, End Times Fascism and Nerd Reich, take a hard look at fascism today – and its intersections with big tech.
Amid news that 500 jobs will go at the Whyalla steelworks, once owned by Gupta’s GFG Alliance, The Big Steal is a powerful – and timely – work of journalism.