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 ...  

Näku Dhäruk: The Bark Petitions tells an important piece of Indigenous history

21 Feb 2025 | A new book by acclaimed author Clare Wright examines how the people of Yirrkala changed the course ...  

BOOK REVIEW: 'Truth Abandoned' misses the mark on trans issues

24 Jan 2025 | A new book proclaiming to be a feminist approach to democracy suffers from its misguided view of ...  

Book packaging: Influencers driving fiction genre publishing trend

16 Jan 2025 | Social media influencers are driving a book packaging publishing trend in fiction books.  

The life and crimes of Australia's most daring fugitive

10 Jan 2025 | A new book detailing the life of one of Australia's most charismatic criminals also serves as a ...  

‘The Tetralogy of Jono’ is now complete

10 Jan 2025 | The publication of Brisbane writer Harry Colfer’s Show Cause completes ‘The Tetralogy of ...