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Cecilia Rabess’s controversial debut novel explores race, politics and love in the time of Trump.
A new history examines the failure of the Russian polity and Russian society to wean themselves off their colonialist frame of mind.
The machinations of a young and ambitious media mogul are laid bare in a detailed new biography.
Martin Flanagan’s school memoir describes bullying, male violence and abusive priests. But rather than a story of victimhood, it explores the grace and release of sport, finding hope amid darkness.
Crook Manifesto confounds expectations only insofar as it is unprecedented for Colson Whitehead to repeat himself.
In telling the story of BTS, Beyond The Story also tells the story of K-pop and how its dynamics have changed over the years.
Two books by Nick McKenzie and Chris Masters about their reporting on Ben Roberts-Smith shed light on money, power, myth-making and the importance of investigative journalism.
If you’re writing about something essentially trivial, your work has to be of an exceptional standard. But Michael J. Seidlinger’s Scream relies too much on his own low-stakes victimhood.
Owls are masterpieces of adaption, having honed their expertise as night predators over millions of years. Two new books delve into the world of these birds and the battle to protect certain species.
Countless memoirs have been published by US and British veterans in the 20 years since the Iraq War began in March 2003. Iraqi journalist Ghaith Abdul-Ahad offers a fresh perspective.
Family memoir and reimagined history dovetail beautifully in Kate Grenville’s latest novel.
Jessica Zhan Mei Yu’s witty, ‘effervescent’ debut novel follows a Sylvia-Plath-loving young Malaysian-Australian writer’s journey to ‘the heart of empire’ in the UK.
Nadia Comăneci was the most famous gymnast in the world when she defected from Romania in 1989. A new book includes 25,000 pages worth of secret police surveillance material.
Alva Gotby’s book encourages women to refuse the labour of care – and even suggests abolishing the nuclear family.
Australia’s decision to manufacture US missiles highlights tensions between our foreign policy stance and our trading interests. Two new books throw light the problem.
David Grann’s latest book recounts an 18th century shipwreck and the life and death struggles of its survivors.
Ali Cobby Eckermann’s first book since winning the Windham Campbell Prize may well prove her most enduring.
A new book exposes how the ‘chaos kings’ of high finance play with other people’s lives as if they were meaningless pieces in a parlour game for the wealthy elite.
The Pole and Other Stories explores familiar Coetzeean themes of love, death, ageing, art and human-animal interaction.
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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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