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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
Our largest sexual organ: Amee Baird’s ‘Sex in the Brain’
We know surprisingly little about how our brains orchestrate our sex lives
Robot love: Ian McEwan’s ‘Machines Like Me’ and Jeanette Winterson’s ‘Frankissstein’
Literary authors tackle sentience and rationality in AI, with horrific results
The chthonic realms explored in Robert Macfarlane’s ‘Underland’
Cave systems, mines, urban sewers, mycelial networks, moulins and more
The desperate, secretive drama: ‘Choice Words’ edited by Louise Swinn
Personal stories consider questions of choice, legality and stigma surrounding abortion
Missing witnesses: Valeria Luiselli’s ‘Lost Children Archive’
The Mexican ‘documentary fiction’ writer delivers a polyphonic road trip
Rats, heroes and Kevin Rudd’s ‘The PM Years’
This memoir answers some questions about his deposal and return but raises others
Tracking time: Gerald Murnane’s ‘A Season on Earth’
Forty years on, the author’s second novel is reunited with its lost half
Fair judgement without surrender: Chloe Hooper’s ‘The Arsonist’
The author of ‘The Tall Man’ tries to understand the motivations of a Black Saturday firebug