Books (Featured)
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The week’s best TV, film, books and music
Classic TV – Parks and Recreation BBC This brilliant sitcom has back in the news in recent weeks, after its…
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In his own words: Malcolm Turnbull on old battles, personal and political, and new beginnings
In private, he’s battled depression and suicidal thoughts. David Crowe The Sydney Morning Herald Learning to conquer those demons helped…
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Thomas Piketty: Confronting Our Long History of Massive Inequality
Thomas Piketty’s voluminous 2013 book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, created a rare academic frenzy in this country and beyond. Daniel…
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A man with an eye for a story
He is 10 years old, wears a patched grey suit, speaks fluent English and carries himself like an adult. Jane…
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Literature for a lockdown
If you’re in angst-ridden quarantine, you’ll probably be finding it hard to take your mind off things. Paola Tamma and…
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An Epic Novel Haunted by the Ghosts of Colonialism
To whom does one life belong? As the man born Abel Paisley prepares to greet death, the question takes on…
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The First Novelist Accused of Cultural Appropriation
A couple of news cycles ago, I came upon a Facebook post about the Jeanine Cummins novel American Dirt that hit close…
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Iranian refugee Shokoofeh Azar longlisted for Booker International
When the winning books were translated into Farsi, she would devour them. Jason Steger WA Today “I followed all of…
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In defence of Homer
Oxford University is on the brink of a scandalous act of cultural vandalism: it is considering removing the obligatory study…
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Capital and Ideology by Thomas Piketty review – if inequality is illegitimate, why not reduce it?
It is a journalistic convention that any author who writes a doorstopper of a book with the word “capital” in…
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Tsiolkas novel ‘Damascus’ wins Victorian Premier’s Literary Award
Mr Chiolkas’s first novel was 1995’s Loaded. In 2005 the Melbourne writer won the Age Book of the Year prize…
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A poetic vision of a bohemian artistic world
Poetry – Heide – PiO – Giramondo, $39.95 Such artists included Sidney Nolan, Albert Tucker, and Joy Hester, and they…
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Ten books to read in 2020
Colum McCann, Apeirogon McCann’s new novel, named after “a shape with a countably infinite series of sides”, is a glorious…
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The books we loved in 2019
It has been a big year in Australian literature, filled with high and lows; from Margaret Atwood’s Booker Prize win…
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The Books Briefing: What Makes Falsehoods Captivating
Fyre Fest, Theranos, catfishing, cons, fake-news claims both false and legitimate: The 2010s have been a decade of seemingly unprecedented…
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The women of IS are not demons and must be brought home: author
The British tabloid press had a field day, as did the more moderate papers. Kerrie O’Brien Brisbane Times “It became…
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