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The celebrated Australian author’s ‘Collected Stories’ sets private desperation in the cosmopolitan Europe she revered
Dividing the Tasman: ‘Empire and the Making of Native Title’
Historian Bain Attwood examines the different approaches to sovereignty in the New Zealand and Australian settlements
Rebuilding a more egalitarian, altruistic and communitarian society without sacrificing individual liberties
In our nature: ‘Vesper Flights’
Helen Macdonald explores how the study of animals reveals unknown aspects of ourselves
Attack on language: ‘Surviving Autocracy’ and ‘Twilight of Democracy’
Masha Gessen and Anne Applebaum sound alarms on how ‘post-truth’ public debate leaves us mute in the face of autocracy
What are the odds?: Toby Ord’s ‘The Precipice’
The Australian philosopher’s rational exploration of existential risk is bracing but ultimately hopeful
Surrounded by pygmies: Malcolm Turnbull’s ‘A Bigger Picture’
The former PM’s memoir fails to reckon with his fatal belief that all Australians shared his vision
Twilight knowing: Jenny Offill’s ‘Weather’
The American novelist brings literary fiction’s focus on the interior life to climate-change cataclysm
Days of future passed: William Gibson’s ‘Agency’
The cyberpunk pioneer’s latest novel continues his examination of the present from the perspective of a post-apocalyptic future
Heather Morris’s bestselling novels ‘The Tattooist of Auschwitz’ and ‘Cilka’s Journey’, and the problem of truth in historical fiction