Young poets are performing at poetry slams, pop-up events and salons around Australia – and publishing, too. Who are they – and why is poetry so popular?
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New books by George Megalogenis and Paul Strangio consider 21st century Australia: a time of rapid social change with many politicians stuck ‘in a white-bloke past’.
Alice Duncan-Kemp’s books drew on a childhood in intimate contact with Mithaka people. Historian Tom Griffiths’ book, Alice’s dreaming, reminds us of her work.
Jon Ronson’s new book on the masculinity crisis was sparked by his son’s strange journey to a castle in upstate New York and a series of late-night text messages.
The winners of this year’s Prime Minister’s Literary Awards have been announced. Together, they question, subvert and explore Australian identity.
A new book examines the outsized influence of one man on the pivotal 1984 election which ushered in a new New Zealand.
We’ve been telling stories about 9/11 since it happened. The really great ones helped shape how we feel about the attacks and their aftermath.
Grand Ambition: Paul Keating’s Global Vision for Australia is based on deep archival research – and author James Curran’s access to Keating, with his personal papers.
Democracy demands that citizens are treated equally under the law. The tax avoidance practices of the ultra-rich violate that principle, a new book argues.
Saskia Beudel’s Peaking is a thoughtful account of what it means to inhabit a changing body while continuing to test its limits.
Becoming a father naturally drops men’s testosterone levels. And the more involved they are, the more it drops.
Lesbia Harford knew she would die young but became a revolutionary all the same. Her writing captured the dizzying confusion of a violent time.
Life of M bleeds fact into fiction, but it requires much more of the reader than a simple guessing game of who’s who.
Modern societies, argues Michel Foucault, think and talk about sex far more than their forebears ever did. But this has not been liberating.
How did our politics become so personal? Performance Politics considers 70 years of books and documentaries, from the Whitlam era to now.
Richard Flanagan is a natural raconteur. While some of his essays seethe with anger, his passion for literature is infectious.
Richard Denniss notes that the export revenue from Australia’ natural gas mostly goes to foreign shareholders.
Biological War tells the story of a hypothetical but realistic pathogen that quickly causes anarchy and mass casualties around the world.
Speechwriter Don Watson’s insider account of the prime minister he worked for, written ‘in tragic mode’, was an instant bestseller – but Keating famously hated it.
Seven Little Australians was a bestseller on publication. Its vibrant, social-mores-smashing heroine, Judy, has influenced generations of literary rebels since.
Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library has distributed 318 million books worldwide. Nearly 50,000 Australian children are receiving a free book every month.
Shaun Tan’s groundbreaking graphic story, The Arrival, counters the dangerous fantasy of a homogeneous (white) Australia – and invites us to inhabit the other.
Ruth Park’s classic asks us to inhabit the past as a real place – just as 14-year-old Abigail does, when she’s transported from 1980 to 1873, in Sydney’s The Rocks.
Valerie Brown’s experiences with Greenpeace, which she headed when the Rainbow Warrior was bombed, read like a spy novel. But it’s just one way she changed the world.
Storm Boy, Colin Thiele’s book set on South Australia’s Coorong bird sanctuary, has been internationally hailed as one of the few lasting children’s classics.