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Jem Bendell encourages us to think about societal collapse in ways that are ‘profound and startlingly original’, with the potential to birth whole new social movements, says Tom Doig.
Traditional capitalists are still flourishing, but according to Yanis Varoufakis they are not driving the economy like they used to.
In Question 7, Richard Flanagan writes of the contingencies of history, and troubles the distinction between truth and fabrication.
Let Us Descend is concerned with the neglected lives of the the poor, the despised, the dark, those barely scraping a living, but cannot capture the collective experience of slavery.
Some see Elon Musk as an idiot savant; others think of him simply as an idiot. How did an unelected citizen come to wield such power?
The narrator of Charlotte Wood’s new novel has shed her life to live with nuns. The world intrudes in the form of COVID, a mouse plague and recovered bones, delivered by someone from her past.
Gabrielle Carey’s last book, about her beloved James Joyce, also includes her own life as a reader, and makes us see things that hurt and delight her.
My Life as a Jew is an honest and very personal book about a growing sense of Jewish identity, but it has its contradictions.
Michael Lewis’s new book tells the remarkable story of the rise and fall of a very contemporary tycoon.
In The Idealist, the machinations of the Australian government become a sinister backdrop to what seems to be a story of liberation.
The book shares secrets – Mantel’s own alongside those of the writers, historical figures and places she describes.
Paradise Estate is a good-humoured depiction of the travails of share-house living, with a political edge.
Julia offers contemporary readers new ways of thinking about Orwell’s novel.
Melissa Lucashenko’s latest novel is an epic, affirming pathways for Indigenous futures – and she gifts us with characters impossible not to invest in.
From haunted houses to villainous vampires, these are the spooky reads our experts just can’t forget.
The latest books by Gretchen Shirm and Briony Doyle are preoccupied with the aftermaths of recent deaths.
Two new books go behind the scenes on the Teacher’s Pet case. One is by Lyn Dawson’s daughter, Shanelle, and the other is by Hedley Thomas, creator of the internationally successful podcast.
A new book evokes the tumultuous nature of 16th century Europe through the eyes of three queens: Catherine de’ Medici, her daughter Elisabeth and her daughter-in-law, Mary, Queen of Scots.
Killing for Country does brilliantly for one group of families what a robust, locally grounded truth-telling process might do for the whole nation.
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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, Chair of Australian Literature, The University of Western Australia
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Emeritus Professor of Creative Writing, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of English Literature, University of Southern Queensland
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Senior Lecturer, Writing, Department of Media and Communication, Swinburne University of Technology
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Professor of Communication, Deakin University
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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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Professor of Psychology, The University of Melbourne
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