Gothic fiction has become the ideal genre for exploring the grotesque, frightening aspects of coming of age. And disruptive girls with supernatural powers have replaced the passive heroines of old.
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Rozanna Lilley’s book Do Oysters Get Bored? explores the complexity of family life, contrasting her own unconventional childhood with caring for her autistic son.
The powerful ideological connection between Australia and agriculture is being increasingly scrutinised. A spate of recent books have recast basic assumptions about our relationship to the land.
A new book explores the complex and nuanced place the Bible has held in Australian culture since hundreds of copies arrived with the First Fleet in 1787.
Tracker Tilmouth was a central and visionary figure in Aboriginal politics. His life is captured in Alexis Wright’s Tracker through the voices of many, rather than the tradition of European biography.
A Stella winner is a book that challenges its readers; it attempts to do a bit of work in the world. And this year’s shortlist doesn’t disappoint.
Tim Winton’s latest novel, The Shepherd’s Hut, pushes the author’s classic themes to the extreme.
Authors Lutz and Klingholz explore how mass literacy became a revolution that changed the world.
Go on, treat yourself - read a science book over the holidays. Here are a few ideas to get started.
The confidence to navigate between cultures and languages is essential in the world today. Start the education this holiday, with adventure stories from Guam to the North Pole.
Here are five great book recommendations for teens that promote critical thinking, authentic voices, diversity and good conversations.
Pierre Ryckmans - also known by his nom-de-plume, Simon Leys - was an inspirational teacher, the bête-noire of sinology and an outspoken public intellectual. A new biography tells his story.
The history of the library is replete with mechanical marvels. More than collections of books, libraries are social, cultural and technological institutions that house the very idea of a society.
Paula Modersohn-Becker painted female nudes unlike anything seen before. A new book brings to life this groundbreaking artist, who died at just 31.
A new book on puberty has explored why we find it so difficult to talk about puberty, and why we need to start talking about it earlier.
Author Kate Cole-Adams delves into fascinating questions about consciousness and self.
What future the Great Barrier Reef? What future energy policy? Two new publications on the ongoing battles of climate politics deserve close attention.
Donald Horne saw Australia as a lucky country that was squandering its luck. His bold ideas captured the nation’s imagination. But being a public intellectual is no longer easy. Who will come up with the next grand ideas?
Tom Nichols’ book The Death of Expertise examines why the relationship between experts and citizens in a democracy is collapsing, and what can be done about it.
There are several ways into the book Shaping the Fractured Self: poetry of chronic illness and pain, edited by Heather Taylor Johnson. And there are many uses it might serve in the multiple worlds of poetry…
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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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Professor of English Literature, University of Southern Queensland
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PhD Candidate, School of Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne
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Political Scientist, University of the Western Cape
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Emeritus Professor of Creative Writing, The University of Melbourne
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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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Senior Lecturer, Writing, Department of Media and Communication, Swinburne University of Technology
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Professor of Psychology, The University of Melbourne
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Deputy Director, Institute for Ethics, Governance & Law, Griffith University
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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
