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Our public pools are cherished places: just ask 28 Australians for their recollections. But there was a time when not everyone was welcome in the pools.
Stella Prize winner Heather Rose’s new novel Bruny catalogues modern geopolitical concerns in a work that crosses satirical, political and family drama genres.
This searing new comics anthology edited by Diane Noomin shows us stories of sexual violence, harassment and – most critically – survival.
Paddy Manning’s new book charts the challenges faced by the Greens (and greenies in general) with admirable clarity and detail.
The New York Times reporters who broke the Weinstein story show how lawyers – whether ones who represented him or his victims – enabled the movie mogul’s wrongdoing.
The best-selling author of the Tomorrow series is also a teacher and school principal. His new book The Art of Growing Up has many truths on raising children, but also many contradictions.
Each novel in this list is profoundly empathetic, and deeply attuned to contemporary Australia.
The book promises to help reclaim language used against women, exploring the origins of gendered slurs. But its use of contemporary slang and lack of an index undermines its credibility.
A new book scrutinises the social and psychological causes of domestic abuse, its terrifying consequences, particularly the impact on children, and the failure of our legal and social institutions to adequately respond.
More than ever, South African universities need a new social contract that charts a way forward and begins to heal divisions.
In his new book, Teen Brain, David Gillespie suggests anxiety and other problems are on the rise among teenagers due to smartphones and tablets. This could be true, but his claims are overblown.
A new anthology collects the voices of 35 contributors on #MeToo in Australia. The book wades into all the difficult areas, from sexual assault to the culture that enables it.
An anthology of Victorian women poets is a window into their thoughts and feelings during the first world war.
Debut memoir The Erratics possesses a rare honesty, exploding socially sanctioned ideas about mothers and families.
The six books shortlisted for this year’s Stella prize cover diverse subject matter and make risky aesthetic choices; they are serious and thoroughly unsentimental.
A new collection of writing by African-diaspora Australians shares a diversity of experiences: stories of displacement, isolation, endurance and the right to call Australia home.
The final instalment to the Rosie Project trilogy points to greater awareness about neurological differences such as autism.
In Terry Kurgan’s book family history, however tortuous, is subsumed into a greater history of the greatest atrocity.
Many harsh things are said in Summers’ book. It’s difficult to decide whether to praise its “breathtaking honesty” – as critics undoubtedly will – or draw back like a witness to some gruesome accident.
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Associate Professor in Media, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Dean, Graduate Research, University of Canberra
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Emeritus Professor of Creative Writing, The University of Melbourne
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Adjunct professor, University of Technology Sydney
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Senior Lecturer, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Deakin University
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Joanna Mendelssohn is a Friend of The Conversation.
Honorary (Senior Fellow) School of Culture and Communication University of Melbourne. Editor in Chief, Design and Art of Australia Online, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Project Manager, Murdoch University
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Professor, Chair of Australian Literature, The University of Western Australia
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Course coordinator, The University of Queensland
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Senior Lecturer in Literary Studies, Monash University
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Susan Lawler is a Friend of The Conversation.
Associate Professor, Department of Ecology, Environment and Evolution, La Trobe University
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Professor of Psychology, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Conservation Biology, Charles Darwin University
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Personal Chair, Literary Studies, Deakin University
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Professor of History, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University
