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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
Agents of chaos: Peter Pomerantsev’s ‘This Is Not Propaganda’
The Russian expat journalist wonders if democracy can survive the internet, as social media is used to promote feelings over facts
Damascene subversion: Christos Tsiolkas’s ‘Damascus’
The literary storyteller’s latest novel wrestles with the mythology of Christianity’s founder, Paul the Apostle
Radical ambiguity: Jia Tolentino, Rachel Cusk and Leslie Jamison
The essay collections ‘Trick Mirror’, ‘Coventry’ and ‘Make It Scream, Make It Burn’ offer doubt and paradoxical thinking in the face of algorithmic perfectionism
‘Penny Wong: Passion and Principle’
Margaret Simons’ biography of one of the country’s most admired politicians