BOOK REVIEW: 90 Seconds to Midnight

13 Sep 2025 | Charlotte DeCroes Jacobs' '90 Seconds to Midnight: A Hiroshima Survivor’s Nuclear Odyssey' ...  

‘Hear Me Roar’: What female animals can teach us about women and power

12 Sep 2025 | In her new book, Erna Walraven draws on decades of experience with animals to challenge the myths ...  

Festival fallout: Antisemitism code sparks exodus from Bendigo writers' event

19 Aug 2025 | An ironic censorship saga has threatened the very existence of an entire literary festival.  

At 89 years old, Annie Proulx can still cast magic spells with fiction

14 Aug 2025 | The author of 'Brokeback Mountain' is still writing stories full of political and social relevance ...  

How Western wokeness weakens the West but empowers China

25 Jul 2025 | When wokeness becomes a smokescreen for inequality, the elite just keeps real change out of ...  

Anxiety and social media: What not looking away is doing to our minds

10 Jul 2025 | Social media platforms have become the most prevalent and powerful influence on our personal ...  

'Southern Frontier': Australia’s cold pursuit of empire and identity

4 Jul 2025 | A new book uncovers the overlooked history of Australia’s deep entanglement with Antarctica, a ...  

Democracy defended in 'Dutton Deconstructed'

27 Jun 2025 | Pat Comben’s searing political autopsy of Peter Dutton argues that voters didn’t just reject a ...  

The Existential Playbook promises purpose but at a price

20 Jun 2025 | Stephen Bruyant-Langer’s ‘The Existential Playbook’ offers a path to meaning and reinvent ...  

Kate Grenville re-examines our nation's origins in 'Unsettled'

13 Jun 2025 | Kate Grenville retraces her ancestors’ colonial paths across Australia, confronting the legacy ...  

Chasm between liberal values and action exposed again

3 Apr 2025 | Creative artists who platform against genocide should be applauded, not vilified, writes Rosemary ...  

'Careless People' and Meta's unprincipled corporate dominance

25 Mar 2025 | Attempts by Meta to shut down a new tell-all book savaging the organisation have had the oppo ...  

Lotus May Thompson and the Acid Girl legacy

7 Mar 2025 | A century ago, on 1 February 1925, Australian silent film star Lotus May Thompson made headlines ...