The novel Appreciation is a literary page-turner with no shortage of dramatic flair.
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The story of human evolution is inextricable from the story of gynaecology.
To ask whether 36 Ways to Write a Vietnamese Poem is a collection of poems or a single long poem is to step through the looking glass.
Bigambul and Wakka Wakka author Melanie Saward’s Burn is structured around three fires. It bears witness to the role institutions play in exacerbating trauma associated with colonialism.
The Shortest History of Economics is not just a history of economic thought, but a history of economic life.
Mykaela Saunders’ Indigenous speculative fiction collection Always Will Be, published in the year following the failed referendum, is a very timely endeavour.
Throughout If We Burn, Vincent Bevins shows that “movements that cannot speak for themselves will be spoken for”.
A new biography tells the story of Hillsong and its leader Brian Houston. How did Hillsong come to dominate Australian Pentecostalism – and Australian Christianity? What can we learn from its decline?
Conservative critics argue the ‘social responsibility’ of business lies in increasing profits. But values have always been tied up with money-making, from the welfare state to colonialism.
At 27, Robyn Davidson trekked through the Australian outback with four camels and a dog. In her long-awaited memoir we come closer to knowing why she made this journey.
The interviews in this book offer firsthand insights into women’s participation in the armed struggle against apartheid.
Love and Money, Sex and Death ricochets between sparkling defiance, unravelled grief, and furious hope.
Georgia Blain’s final, posthumous collection offers clear-eyed, calm compassion – and a capacity to live with, and alongside, damage, trauma and unspeakable loss, and a way of staying human.
Fiction offers precious and sobering insights into the impact of alcohol in the lives of women and children.
Kiley Reid’s follow-up to her Booker longlisted debut is a novel about money. But it’s most interesting when it explores the gap between our imagined selves and what our actions reveal.
How can violence be viewed as ethical? Carlo Bordoni’s new book helps us understand why societies go to war and how they justify it.
Dassi Erlich details the crime, the cover-up and her eventual victory in court against Malka Leifer, the former school principal who abused her.
Stephanie Land’s sequel to her mega-successful debut memoir Maid works as hard as she does – but while its details of low-income single-parent life as a student are valuable, it suffers by comparison.
Since 2020 there has been exponential rise in ‘virus fiction’ by a new COVID generation of authors who came out of isolation having experienced a pandemic in real time.
Reading Wilson’s Iliad, one senses something of the chant of Homer’s verse, even through the written word.
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Executive Dean (interim) Faculty of Arts and Design, University of Canberra
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Associate Professor in Media, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Adjunct professor, University of Technology Sydney
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PhD Candidate, School of Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer, Writing, Department of Media and Communication, Swinburne University of Technology
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Political Scientist, University of the Western Cape
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Professor, Chair of Australian Literature, The University of Western Australia
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Professor of Communication, Deakin University
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Professor of English Literature, University of Southern Queensland
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Professor of Psychology, The University of Melbourne
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Deputy Director, Institute for Ethics, Governance & Law. President, Australian Association for Professional & Applied Ethics., Griffith University
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Emeritus Professor of Creative Writing, The University of Melbourne
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Dennis Altman adalah Sahabat The Conversation.
VC Fellow, La Trobe University
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Senior Lecturer in English Literature, Charles Sturt University
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Senior Lecturer, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Deakin University
