Angela O'Keefe’s compelling new novel, Phantom Days, contemplates the power and agency of stories.
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Are there potential benefits to artificial friendships, or is the idea of a mechanical friend sadder or more pathetic than having no friends at all?
Ray Carney is back in the concluding chapter of the Harlem Trilogy, and finally trying to kick his criminal side hustle.
In the 1930s, the Lamb family buy the land on which they were enslaved but attempts to take it from them dog them across generations.
Musquito’s life and death can be read through the lens of a history of invasion and resistance. Or of the difficulties of being placed between two worlds.
Five books that span time and place, from the music scene in 80s London to the philosophical scene of Ancient Rome.
The End of Romance is a relatable dystopia that amplifies humanity’s burning problems – but offers a glint of hope
Five books that take you all over the world
Kris Kneen’s Rite of Spring is a pulsing story that moves energetically across its terrain, delivering a sense of alien understanding.
Andrew Dodd and Matthew Ricketson have not written another biography of Rupert Murdoch, but a forensic account of how his empire intimidates and destroys.
A suspicion of prose poetry permeated Anglophone countries in the 20th century. Today, it is rejuvenating poetic traditions.
The Thornbacks features ‘weird sisters’ whose reaction to being unloved is to make themselves unlovable to almost everyone – except each other.
Boomer Lucinda Holdforth sides with younger generations in Going On and On – but neither youth nor old age are monoliths.
A new collection of 80-year-old songs, passed around Holocaust survivors, emerged from a discovery in a Sydney closet.
These vibrant, provocative books come together in their contemplation of what it means to be Australian in a global context.
Land reasserts the Gaelic language and culture in opposition to the culture of the British colonisers, but relies on simplistic characterisations.
These novels look inwards and backwards, explaining our failed liberation and saving what they can as the world hurtles to oblivion.
Our picks for this week include a film where internet folklore comes to life, books to lose yourself in and a eerie landscape exhibition.
Amanda Lohrey’s Capture takes place in weird shiny rooms, where humans are studied with curiosity and partial incomprehension.
Francesca de Tores’ Cast Away or, the Surprising Adventures of Alexander Selkirk is a timely consideration of human resilience and resourcefulness.
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