In A World Appears, Michael Pollan wonders if the search for consciousness might be a socially (and scientifically) acceptable proxy for the search for the soul.
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Bugs abound in this terrifying story of scientific ambition.
Debra Adelaide’s new book, When I Am Sixty-Four, is a complex, devastating and often funny love letter to her friend, the late Gabrielle Carey.
You could say it’s just a novel, so the implausibilities don’t matter, but the story is self-involved and contrived.
Beyond the Meeting of the Waters reminds us that the campaign for justice is a long and abiding process. It is not measured in moments, but generations.
Erin Vincent’s 14 Ways of Looking and Gemma Parker’s The Mother is Restless and She Doesn’t Know Why are powerful fragmented memoirs.
When it comes to the most important policy decisions any nation can make, Australia is still coming to terms with its geography.
A beautifully written book that shows why nostalgia is not to be trusted.
Loneliness in women is on the rise in Japan, and friendship can help. But in this novel, connection quickly becomes obsession.
Gabriel Sherman, author of the latest and shortest Murdoch biography, is an outstanding journalist. But does he have something new to say about the media mogul?
The flaw of child heroes is their vulnerability, their trust in the adults in their lives, their tendency to look to them for guidance.
MAGA mouthpiece and kingmaker Tucker Carlson was an early voice on the Mexico wall, Putin, Orban and South Africa – as well as RFK Jr and Tulsi Gabbard. What next?
Left-wing radicalism dominated the 1970s – until the 1979 Iranian Revolution became a catalyst for ‘a new and different energy’.
Award-winning author Eva Hornung’s time-travelling new novel explores Australia’s tensions around land ownership and belonging.
At some point, Australia must accept that it is time to break the chokehold commercial gambling has on this country.
In her latest novel, Claire Thomas spotlights the significance of the Swiss Alps to a wide range of authors, scientists, historians and artists.
Australia’s impossible housing crisis, One Nation as a political force, privatised education … how many of our problems can be traced back to John Howard?
Gisèle Pelicot’s compelling personal tale is very different from her daughter’s, reflecting their contrasting ways of surviving trauma.
Big Kiss, Bye-Bye explores the psychological fallout from a broken relationship and the human tendency to seek shelter in illusions.
Blaise Agüera y Arcus argues that prediction is the fundamental principle behind intelligence and “may be the whole story”.
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