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A new book about George Floyd, the grandson of sharecroppers, murdered by a police officer in 2020, is a moving work of reportage and activism.
Two new books examine the life and legacy of an inspiring poet whose work resisted patriarchal constraints.
A timely biography of an important Australian novelist delves into the complexities of her personal and political life.
Julian Barnes’ Elizabeth Finch is an unrequited love story and a philosophical novel that asks how we understand ourselves and others.
Political biographies show us who is ‘worthy’ of being written about … and who is overlooked in history.
Australian writer Eve Langley, author of the 1942 novel The Pea Pickers, resisted gender expectations and wrote acutely about the landscape.
Journalism has rarely had a fiercer critic, nor a finer practitioner than the longtime writer for The New Yorker, Janet Malcolm, who died last week aged 86.
How will we record the pandemic and its effectson our lives? How will we look back at the significance of the present in the future?
Though Oliver Sacks wrote two memoirs before his death in 2015, a new film brings his joys, hardships and excesses into affectionate focus.
A new Greta Thunberg biopic has drawn criticism from those who don’t see the value in the stories of young lives. But children’s voices matter — and Thunberg’s is potent.
A biography about suffragist Vida Goldstein seeks to reveal her strength and endurance. Sadly, it also reveals how little progress women who seek political power on their terms have made.
Brutus’s life was closely interlinked with the rise of apartheid and offered a way to look at resistance to this system.
From its beginnings as a geeky tool to deal with a fragmented information stream, Twitter made the hashtag a new and powerful part of the world’s cultural, social and political vocabulary.
Almost as soon as Dickens died in 1870, writers and illustrators began to take liberties with his life and career.
Theologian Franz Bibfeldt may never have lived, but his legacy continues in many important ways – most of all not to take ourselves too seriously.
There’s a reason many today have never heard of Norman Douglas: After his death, more and more came forward with stories of his sexual relationships with boys, and he soon faded into obscurity.
Despite the myth of consumption as an ethereal, wasting disease, the more prosaic truth is that the Brontës likely infected one another with tuberculosis.
Ivor Montagu’s childhood was privileged, but he rebelled against his wealthy upbringing to become a pioneer of film culture, an activist documentary maker and an ardent supporter of Soviet communism.
‘I Don’t Want to Get Thin,’ singer Sophie Tucker proclaimed – an attitude that was decades ahead of its time.
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Professor of Communication, Deakin University
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Senior Fellow, McCormack Graduate School, UMass Boston
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Senior Research Fellow at the National Centre of Biography, Australian National University
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Chief Executive Officer, Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research; Professorial Fellow, Fenner School for the Environment and Society, Australian National University
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Associate Professor, Contemporary Histories Research Group, Deakin University
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Lecturer in Social Inquiry, La Trobe University
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Professorial Fellow in History, The University of Melbourne
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Professor and Associate Director, ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society, Queensland University of Technology
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Chancellor's Professor of Medicine, Liberal Arts, and Philanthropy, Indiana University
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Senior Lecturer, Queensland University of Technology
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Curator of Scientific Collections, University of Cambridge
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Professor of English, School of the Arts and Media, UNSW Sydney
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Executive Dean (interim) Faculty of Arts and Design, University of Canberra
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Professor of Philosophy, La Trobe University
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Research Associate, Research School of Humanities and the Arts, Australian National University
