The flaw of child heroes is their vulnerability, their trust in the adults in their lives, their tendency to look to them for guidance.
- Director of Creative Writing, Macquarie University
In her latest novel, Merlinda Bobis envisions the past not as a grand narrative, but an organic process – entangled, living and mutable.
We found out the favourite 2025 books of 35 expert readers – and the Books & Ideas team shares our own picks, too.
In Desolation, inexplicable elements, often in the form of coincidence, disrupt and distort causal chains. Dreams and imagination have a subversive role.
National identities are also the source of fierce loyalties and resistances. They elevate individual stories to the weight and scale of a national story.
A psychiatrist and revolutionary, Frantz Fanon wrote fiercely against racism and colonialism. His ideas continue to inform political movements yet his misogyny and embrace of violence are problematic.
To ask whether 36 Ways to Write a Vietnamese Poem is a collection of poems or a single long poem is to step through the looking glass.
In her prose and her poetry, Sara M. Saleh renders unique the ways people resist, transcend, adapt, make the best of things, compromise, endure, and lose hope and faith.
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