Grief and its consequences are at the heart of Ella Baxter’s New Animal. Ella Baxter’s debut novel is about a young woman attempting to make sense of her world and her body after she has experienced two serious bouts of grief. This needs to...
Is freedom of speech under threat in Australia’s universities? In Open Minds authors Evans and Stone examine the evidence. In 2018 two incidents occurred that prompted the federal government to initiate an investigation into the internal...
Olivia Sudjic’s second novel ranges from London to Sarajevo and explores displacement, exile, and refuge. Too often, the quotations an author chooses to preface their book seem to be put there to puzzle the reader. The two quotations chosen...
These six essays provide insights into the world of surfing both as individual passion and national symbol. In his introduction to this collection of Australian surf writing, Jock Serong asks whether surfing is a sport or a culture. It is estimated...
Cassandra Austin’s second novel is a page-turner that weaves together themes of motherhood and family secrets. On an ordinary summer’s day in 1969, in a small Australian town, a new mother finds her baby missing from her cot. In this gothic...
Kazuo Ishiguro’s latest novel is as much about what it is to be human as it is about artificial intelligence. Klara and the Sun is Kazuo Ishiguro’s first novel since he was awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature. He touches on AI towards...
