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A dystopian or utopian future? Claire G. Coleman’s new novel Enclave imagines both

Image: Shutterstock I was reading Noongar author Claire G. Coleman’s third novel, Enclave, a few days after the US Supreme Court overturned the Roe v Wade judgement,...

Religious lies, conmen and coercive control: how cults corrupt our desire for love and connection

Image: Young women members of the Charles Manson family kneel on the sidewalk outside the Los Angeles at Hall of Justice March 29, 1971,...

Paul McCartney’s The Lyrics: an extraordinary life in song

      Paul McCartney photographed backstage at the television show ‘Thank Your Lucky Stars’, Birmingham, England, 1963. © MPL Communications Ltd Review: Paul McCartney, The Lyrics:...

Dr Norman Swan’s new book tests the evidence on diet, sex and the ‘bullshit’ wellness trend. Does he know what’s good for us?

  Picture: Shuttlestock There’s a great moment in George Eliot’s 1861 classic Silas Marner, where a young woman bemoans how people with “neither ache nor...

The Stella shortlist: your guide to 2021’s powerful, emotional books

  Picture: Stella Prize/The Conversation Each year, The Stella Prize honours writing by women. Good. We’ve come a long way. We’ve a long way to...

Sunday essay: a new front in the culture wars, Cynical Theories takes unfair aim at the humanities

Image: Liam Edwards/Unsplash In 2017, when a biology professor in a state college in Washington protested against a proposed day-long ban on the presence of white...

Review: Richard Flanagan’s The Living Sea of Waking Dreams considers griefs big and small

Eddie Coghlan/Unsplash Review: Richard Flanagan, The Living Sea of Waking Dreams (Penguin Random House, 2020) The Living Sea of Waking Dreams, Richard Flanagan’s eighth novel,...

Paul Kelly biography traces his journey but not his work with young artists today

Picture: David Moir/AAP Review: Paul Kelly: The Man, the Music and Life in Between (Hatchette) Stuart Coupe’s new biography of Paul Kelly takes many known...

Fiction, fact and Hillary Clinton: an American politics expert reads Rodham

Picture: Library of Congress Curtis Sittenfeld has a knack of putting her readers in uncomfortable places in her fiction. In her short story Gender Studies she...

Take a plunge into the memories of Australia’s favourite swimming pools

The Memory Pool’s author Therese Spruhan has her own favourite, the Northbridge Baths in Sydney. Therese Spruhan From the smell of chlorine to water...
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