Anna Funder’s new book, Wifedom, is a meditation on the insidious nature of patriarchy. Funder draws parallels between our #metoo era and the time of George Orwell and his wife Eileen.
‘Literary couples are a plague,’ wrote Elsa Morante, married to Alberto Moravia. They’re one of the couples in this lively exploration of what happens when two writers share loves and lives.
Belshazzar’s Feast – Rembrandt (c.1636).
Public domain
Jen Craig’s new novel Wall confirms she is an ambitious writer in the best sense: she wants to convey deeply conflicted and even contradictory states of being in the world.
Engineer and producer Tony Cohen made an astonishing contribution to Australian recorded music in the 70s and 80s – working with acts like The Saints, Nick Cave’s various bands, and the Go-Betweens.
Based on years of studying the science of emotions, a new book by Dacher Keltner makes the case for the life-affirming power of awe.
Peter Dutton walks past a screen outlining cyber attacks around the world while visiting the Australian Signals Intelligence Directorate in March last year.
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Much of the history of signals intelligence in Australia – revealing secrets and protecting one’s own – is tacit and poorly understood. A new book lifts the lid on this world.
Three debut Australian novels explore diverse territory: the recognisable real world of parental estrangement, and a dystopian near-future where it never stops raining.
There are no polemics in Serhii Plokhy’s book about the Russo-Ukranian war. The Ukranian historian lets the facts speak – showing remarkable restraint.
A new book, Unscripted, tells the incredible story of Sumner Redstone, the other model for Succession’s Logan Roy – and the epic succession journey of his daughter, Shari, now chair of ViacomCBS.
The shortlisted books.
Courtesy of the International Booker Prize
A new book by German political economist Maja Göpel examines how dominant paradigms in economic thinking turn into assumptions –inhibiting action on climate change.
Deborah Levy’s new novel, set in our pandemic-era present, contains the heat and desire of a European summer and the upward struggle of a soul. Jane Gleeson-White says she ‘read it like a thriller’.