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Melissa Lucashenko: Edenglassie
Melissa Lucashenko describes her latest novel, Edenglassie, as her “big book” – a multigenerational epic that torches Queensland’s colonial myths and…
1 year, 11 months ago
Julia Baird: Bright Shining
Following broadcaster and author Julia Baird’s multi-award-winning international bestseller, Phosphorescence, comes a beautiful and timely exploratio…
1 year, 11 months ago
The Presence of the Past
As conflict plays out across an unnamed region, the protagonist in Parramatta Laureate of Literature Yumna Kassab’s Politica imagines how she will la…
1 year, 11 months ago
Lauren Groff: The Vaster Wilds
After smash-hit Fates and Furies, the modern-day marriage story that was Barack Obama’s book of the year in 2015, Lauren Groff’s novels have looked t…
1 year, 11 months ago
Richard Flanagan: Question 7
Join Richard Flanagan as he discusses this hypnotic, genre-defying new book which entwines memoir, biography, autofiction and history through a daisy…
2 years ago
Survival, Sustenance and Stories
Social change is driven by conversation, in sharing ideas, and translating those ideas for audiences who don’t agree or understand what is at stake.
…2 years ago
A.C. Grayling: The Meaning of Life in a Technological Age
The quest for a life worth living has been the business of philosophers for millennia. How can we pursue answers to life’s big questions in a world t…
2 years ago
Kate Manne: Fighting Fatphobia
Anti-fatness is a system of oppression, argues Kate Manne, afflicting vulnerable bodies in intersectional ways.
Building on her incisive studies of m…
2 years ago
Abdulrazak Gurnah: Afterlives
At 18, Abdulrazak Gurnah arrived in England as a refugee from the Zanzibar Revolution. Receiving the Nobel Prize more than 50 years later, he reflect…
2 years ago
Katy Hessel: The Story of Art Without Men
How many women artists do you know? Who makes art history? And what is the Baroque anyway?
Enter art historian and curator Katy Hessel’s The Story of…
2 years ago