Saskia Beudel’s Peaking is a thoughtful account of what it means to inhabit a changing body while continuing to test its limits.
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‘Instead of seeing limitations, I began to see possibilities.’
Valerie Brown’s experiences with Greenpeace, which she headed when the Rainbow Warrior was bombed, read like a spy novel. But it’s just one way she changed the world.
Hannah’s cousin died and she didn’t have to. Wormhole investigates the dark world of alternative wellness online – and the comforts and dangers of such communities.
First published in 2000, Persepolis created a transformative shift in comics, memoir and political storytelling. Its Iranian–French creator has died, aged 56.
David Carlin and Peta Murray offer hopeful, poignant and personally informed responses to ageing and mortality.
Lena Dunham’s searingly funny, shockingly honest memoir reveals how Hollywood culture allows pretty much anything, except human frailty.
Siri Hustvedt is writing for her own survival in Ghost Stories, an extraordinary new grief memoir.
In Raven Mother, Jane Messer writes of the grandmother she never knew: a woman who defied expectations but was undone by war, displacement, exile and separation.
Iconic 90s bass players Melissa Auf Der Maur (Hole) and Kim Gordon (Sonic Youth) chronicle a time characterised by messy humanity, low-level trust and delicate egos.
Has our culture’s begrudging acceptance of ghostwriting paved the way for everyone – not just the rich and famous – to offload the hard work of writing?
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.
As a child, Catharine Coleborne’s mother spent a year in bed with polio. Stories like hers reveal why we can’t afford to go backwards on vaccination.
A beautifully written book that shows why nostalgia is not to be trusted.
In an extract from The Library That Made Me, novelist Roanna Gonsalves reflects on the aspiration, pleasure and survival of shared knowledge.
Silence would mean accepting and surrendering to the Taliban’s power, writes one of these authors. Theirs are the voices of resistance.
The 75-year-old pop star is part of a generation of Iranians in the diaspora who are watching, with bated breath, as their compatriots seek to topple the Islamic Republic.
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.
Musician, mother, widow: this moving account of an extraordinarily creative life details the highs and lows of walking the earth as a woman.
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Adjunct Researcher, English and Writing, University of Tasmania
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Professor of History, School of Humanities, Creative Industries and Social Sciences, University of Newcastle
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Visiting Fellow, Centre for Cultural and Creative Research, University of Canberra, University of Canberra
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Casual Academic, Creative Writing and English Literature, Flinders University
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Senior Lecturer in Humanities, University of Southern Queensland
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Emeritus Professor of Creative Writing, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing, University of Wollongong
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Senior Lecturer, Discipline of English and Writing, University of Sydney
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Associate Dean Indigenous and Professor of Publishing and Communications, The University of Melbourne
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Historian, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing, University of Sydney
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PhD Candidate and literary critic, The University of Melbourne
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Personal Chair, Literary Studies, Deakin University
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Professor in Gender History and the History of Sexuality, The University of Queensland