Books (Featured)
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For eight years I’ve served Australia. The racist hate and disgusting abuse still crushes me
I’ve been called a maggot, a cockroach, a whore and a cow – but I’m not going anywhere. Mehreen Faruqi…
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Best book club bets: the must-read books for winter
This gripping novel is the story of Lex, a New York lawyer with a dark past. Georgie Gordon The Age…
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Miles Franklin Literary Award 2021 shortlist announced
Australian-Indian author Aravind Adiga, who won the Booker in 2008 with his debut The White Tiger, is one of six…
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Growing up with trees: new books use story and science to connect kids with nature
But it really means I spend a lot of time thinking and finding out about people’s relationships with the natural…
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Book review: Geoffrey Robertson makes the case for naming and shaming human rights abusers
His latest book, Bad People – and How to Be Rid of Them, explains the history of international human rights…
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Who’s Afraid of Antiracism?
It seeks to rectify and repair, not terrorize and destroy. Chelsea Stieber Public Books Yet you wouldn’t know that if…
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Words perfect: favourite new books for Mother’s Day
If your mum loves Australian fiction, here are three that should please. In Claire Thomas’s The Performance, three women from…
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This former surgeon’s work ethic was maniacal – but it wasn’t enough for her to succeed
We are both Asian. Jessie Tu The Sydney Morning Herald We are both achievement focused. We didn’t get hugs as…
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How to unlock music as key to the art of remembering
During that time, people have regularly approached with me a similar set of befuddling stories and questions. Lisa Genove The…
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Israel’s Failed Response to the Armenian Genocide: Denial, State Deception, Truth versus Politicization of History
This book follows the author’s gutsy campaign against his government and his quest to successfully hold the conference in the…
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Christianity has touched Australian law more deeply than we admit
How far does a person’s faith shape their professional life? Michael Pelly Financial Review And when it comes to politics…
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Omissa Spe*
Academics used to have privileges not enjoyed by the majority of the workforce: job security, flexible hours, access to great…
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Nobel winner Kazuo Ishiguro reaches for the sun
Our narrator, Klara, is a robot, an “Artificial Friend”, or AF, designed as a subservient companion for children. Liam Pieper…
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How The U.S. Is Killing Off The Death Penalty
The Rise and Fall of the Death Penalty,” examines America’s uneasy history of capital punishment. Melissa Jeltsen HuffPost One of…
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Isabel Allende: ‘Everyone called me crazy for divorcing in my 70s. I’ve never been scared of being alone’
The Chilean American author Isabel Allende was a feminist long before she knew what the word meant. Fiona Sturges The Guardian At…
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Understanding John F. Kennedy: A conversation with acclaimed historian and JFK biographer professor Fredrik Logevall
There are memories of a lionized hero and the glamor and triumph of a public life cut short by a…
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