The essays in a new anthology offer two distinct ways of interpreting the Promethean legacy of scientific progress.
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Shot, stabbed, poisoned with frog toxin – a new book reveals how the killing of political opponents has emerged from the shadows of government secrecy.
China’s economic growth didn’t benefit Hu Anyan – but his exceptional literary talent did. His book about struggling to survive as a gig worker is a worldwide hit.
Vigil shies away from elaborating on the perils of its subjects: late capitalism and the climate apocalypse.
An anthology of essays from Melbourne’s The Paris End showcases personal yet serious reportage and a delight in the weird.
Departure(s) sketches out the limits of Julian Barnes’ aspirations for his art.
Miss Kate Cocks, the real-life first policewoman in South Australia, is the star of Lainie Anderson’s historical crime novels – with a Phryne-Fisher-like offsider.
The biggest difference between China and the US today is not ideological, but lies in their respective abilities to get things done.
Each of these poetry collections brings imagination to bear on material objects and places, on works of art, documents and archives.
A former rock journalist reviews memoirs by Lemonhead Evan Dando, teen Rolling Stone writer Cameron Crowe and feminist punk legend Kathleen Hanna.
Bri Lee’s Seed and Rose Michael’s Else approach our uncertain future from opposite directions – one considers refusing care, while the other is guided by it.
The tension between the novelistic attention to psychology and detail and the epic tendency to breadth of scale and form makes – and unmakes – this book.
In World of War, Geoffrey Robertson calls for more law and better justice, but his arguments are less than compelling.
In The Hiding Place, the hollow ethics of Kate Mildenhall’s characters are exposed as exploitative and mercenary.
Celia Paul’s extraordinary, art-focused life is captured in two brilliant autobiographies. Stella longlisted Stephanie Radok makes the ordinary special in her art.
The essay form is a response to minds, art, communities and culture, understood through a writer’s body, intellect and being.
Former journalist Olivia Nuzzi’s American Canto, about her ‘digital affair’ with politician RFK Jr, raises all kinds of ethical questions. Oh, and it’s a hot mess.
It became clear that “Team Dutton” was running on little more than bloke-energy, an unaffordable nuclear policy and, crazily, higher taxes.
In the 1930s, many foreign correspondents refused to cover Germany. Instead, George Ward Price got close to Hitler – and was rebuked by Churchill.
Andrew Ross Sorkin’s book, 1929, takes us inside the Wall Street crash that led to the Depression. It asks: does history repeat itself? And what can we learn from it?
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Distinguished Professor Emerita of Creative Practice, Faculty of Arts and Design, University of Canberra
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Dennis Altman is a Friend of The Conversation.
Vice Chancellor's Fellow and Professorial Fellow, Institute for Human Security and Social Change, La Trobe University
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Adjunct Researcher, English and Writing, University of Tasmania
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Professor in Politics and Journalism, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Adjunct Professor, Australia-China Relations Institute, University of Technology Sydney
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Senior Lecturer, Writing, Department of Media and Communication, Swinburne University of Technology
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Emeritus Professor of Creative Writing, The University of Melbourne
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Professor, Chair of Australian Literature, The University of Western Australia
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Professor of Communication, Deakin University
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Professor of Psychology, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of English Literature, University of Southern Queensland
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Senior Lecturer in Humanities, University of Southern Queensland
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Senior lecturer, Canberra School of Government, University of Canberra
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Deputy Director, Institute for Ethics, Governance & Law, Griffith University