The complex, haunting stories in Highway 13 are centred around a series of murders. There are echoes throughout of the ‘backpacker murders’ committed by Ivan Milat.
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It is light on political gossip, big on family dinners and highlights some significant policy achievements. Dennis Altman reads The Truths We Hold: An American Journey.
In 2013, anthropologist David Graeber wrote an article for an obscure, left-wing magazine. It spawned a book – and a turn of phrase – that became a cultural phenomenon.
Lucia Osborne-Crowley’s intrepid trauma-informed journalism put her ahead when reporting on Ghislaine Maxwell’s trial – in terms of access to the courtroom, victims and understanding the role of memory.
No Church in the Wild is an ambitious novel that traverses cultures and institutions, and prompts readers to question their values.
By the late 19th century, there were nearly 1,500 varieties of apple in Britain alone.
History for Tomorrow prompts us to consider how changes to decision-making might result in issues being resolved more democratically and promptly.
Declaring that we need to regulate technology is far simpler than explaining how we might do so.
Acts of Creation is an incisive look at over 100 women artists who have created art representing their lived experiences of mothering and care-giving, from joy and grief to ambivalence.
Black Witness asks us all hard questions about why we don’t pay more attention to the violence and neglect many Indigenous people suffer.
Five books to read this summer, which were released in 2024.
Kristina Ross was awarded the last Australian/Vogel Literary Award for her novel, First Year, a book that may – or may not – inspire students to attend drama school.
A middle-aged mother goes on a scandalous road trip in two darkly funny new novels. Their paths diverge dramatically. Only one woman goes home.
Trump and the movement behind him is both new and old. Times are unprecedented but also, to historians of America, frighteningly familiar. Nick Bryant’s book excavates that history.
100 years in the future, 40-year-old Esther is the first of 47 sleepers to be ‘woken’ from cryogenic suspended animation in an underground bunker. Where are her children?
The Afghans is powerful account of the rise of the Taliban, told through the lives of three very different people.
Cultural historian Clair Wills reflects on the secret cousin born in Bessborough Mother and Baby Home, which at one point had a morality rate of 75% – and her family’s complicity in a national tragedy.
In Miranda Darling’s feminist fiction, Mrs Dalloway is a Sydney wife and mother who refuses to be tamed, despite her husband’s attempts at coercive control.
In their different ways, these three poets demonstrate how to transform everyday realities into art.
The power of reading and writing in surviving and addressing huge loss is touched upon in this book about a woman’s struggle during the Sri Lankan civil war
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