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Sam Vincent’s new book is a comic portrait of a farming apprenticeship, an interrogation of industrial agriculture and an example of how farmers are connecting with the land’s traditional owners.
Based on Anne Deveson’s 1991 memoir about her son’s experience with schizophrenia, this play can be achingly sad. But it also offers hope.
Jess Ho’s acerbic, sad, funny memoir of combines a compelling critique of the Melbourne food scene that became her family with memories of a traumatic childhood.
Ken Cameron’s film of Helen Garner’s Monkey Grip is dark, yearning, weird – and incredibly sexy – writes Ronnie Scott.
As material objects, diaries give scholars an intimate look into their subjects’ lives, including handwriting and mementos. What if diaries in the future are nothing but insubstantial digital ghosts?
A city of contrasts, these books represent the heart and the violence of this Italian city.
Hard Joy is an intimate and often idiosyncratic work that speaks of the importance of honest relationships and a rich life of the mind.
A powerful new memoir of prison life in the 1960s and 70s – uncovered while researching lesbians in Sydney – is a searing indictment of Australian society and its institutions.
Two radically inventive new works of Australian graphic nonfiction dig deep into 21st-century life. They balance critique with hopeful possibilities – of collective change and radical acceptance.
These are ferociously intelligent books by two young female writers addressing the problems of gender, race and migration in Australia today.
One of the first contemporary personal narratives about living with HIV in the 21st century, Fever urgently interrogates the social meanings of HIV, and how they’ve evolved in the era of treatment.
At the age of five, Akuch Kuol Anyieth climbed into a cattle truck to journey to the refugee camp known as Kakuma. This is her story.
Disabled single mother Shakira Hussein reflects on her secret weapon against adversity. Adalya, her ‘excessively mature’ daughter, appointed herself her mother’s carer and fierce protector from age 9.
On International Women’s Day, two women writers discuss feminism, writing in the age of Trump and Covid – and being ‘flabbergasted’ by the absence of birth from Western art and philosophy.
Australian dramatist David Williamson’s new book is a mash up of memoir and autobiography, which casts himself as a former ‘plunderer’ of other’s lives.
Brittany Higgins’ forthcoming memoir will allow her to tell her story in her own words. She’ll join a group of strong women who’ve done just that.
Chinese-Canadian journalist Edith Eaton documented anti-Asian racism in Canada in the late 19th and early 20th century. Over 100 years later, not much has changed.
When Matthew Condon began writing about corruption in Queensland he discovered that members of his own family had cameos in the narrative.
In her fragmentary family memoir, Cynthia Banham interweaves narratives of war and migration with her own traumatic plane crash - ultimately reclaiming her identity in the process.
Top contributors
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Visiting Fellow, Centre for Cultural and Creative Research, University of Canberra, University of Canberra
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Lecturer in Creative Writing, University of Sydney
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Professor in Gender History and the History of Sexuality, The University of Queensland
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Associate Professor, School of Humanities and Communication Arts, Western Sydney University
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PhD Candidate, School of Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne
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Personal Chair, Literary Studies, Deakin University
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Emeritus Professor of Creative Writing, The University of Melbourne
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Historian, The University of Melbourne
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Casual Academic, Flinders University
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Senior Lecturer in Screen Studies, University of South Australia
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Associate Professor in Media, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Associate Professor, Griffith University
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Adjunct Associate Professor, Public and Environmental Policy, University of Tasmania
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Raimond Gaita is a Friend of The Conversation.
Honourary professorial fellow, Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne
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Associate professor, UNSW Sydney
