This celebration of public life in Melbourne’s Fitzroy, in 1974, reveals a vigorous working-class suburb evolving into a countercultural marvel of cheap ‘fixer-uppers’ and bohemian share houses.
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Juice is a radical departure that asks readers to think differently about the future.
In Travelling to Tomorrow, Yves Rees charts ten little known 20th-century Australian women who thrived in the United States rather than accept a smaller life at home.
Sugar: An Ethnographic Novel is an elegant and intimate portrayal of everyday life in Fiji, deeply honest about the struggles and inequalities beneath the image of a tourist paradise.
The passions aroused by Israel’s escalating response to the Hamas attacks have revived centuries-old stereotypes, blurring the distinction between opposition to Israel and hatred of Jewish people.
Rooney’s latest is a testament to her optimism in people.
Most people underestimate just how far in advance the fossil fuel industry plans not only its new projects, but its PR and lobbying efforts, as well.
We are accustomed to regarding history as linear, punctuated by moments, events and personages. What if this is not what is happening?
Arendt maintained that our ‘common sense’ depends on our good will and curiosity, our adventurous enjoyment of testing opinions and perspectives against those of others.
The authors of Joe Modise’s biography set out to debunk smears against him.
In Autocracy Inc., Pulitzer winner Anne Applebaum suggests there is a “network” among the world’s autocrats, which they use to further their aims and undermine democracy. But is there?
The most important value, Joseph Stiglitz argues, is freedom. But his is a broadened concept of freedom.
Don Watson predicted Trump’s presidency in his 2016 Quarterly Essay on the US election campaign. In High Noon, he hits the election trail again.
Yuval Noah Harari’s Nexus is ambitious, bold and unsettling. It challenges readers to think critically about the future.
Liz Evans’ novel of fractured souls and tentative female trust is a natural evolution of the genre of #Metoo fiction.
The War Against the Past is sometimes convincing, but prompts larger questions about history, culture, education and morality.
A funny spy thriller, a classic album, a blockbuster feminist exhibition, a good book about a bad childhood and the end of our summer of sport
The First Friend is a double-speaking black comedy with an all-too-serious agenda for these partisan times.
A collection of essays, edited by a former Queensland police officer, contains eyewitness accounts of systemic racism, homophobia, misogyny and institutionalised toxicity.
Repatriation of looted African art is no longer a marginalised topic, but reaps few rewards.
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