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Mind over meta: ‘No One Is Talking About This’
The debut novel from the extremely online Patricia Lockwood considers how the virtual invades the real
The lightness of unbearable being: ‘Double Blind’
Edward St Aubyn tackles familiar themes – desire, drug use, psychoanalysis – via a fresh suite of characters
The death of Yokununna: ‘Return to Uluru’
Mark McKenna explores Australia’s history of violence, dispossession and deception through one tragic incident
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