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‘The End of October’ by Lawrence Wright
A ‘New Yorker’ journalist’s eerily prescient novel about public-health officials fighting a runaway pandemic
‘The Trials of Portnoy’ by Patrick Mullins
The finely detailed story of the legal fight in Australia against the censorship of Philip Roth’s ‘Portnoy’s Complaint’
‘Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982’ by Cho Nam-Joo (trans. Jamie Chang)
The coldly brilliant, bestselling South Korean novel describing the ambient harassment and discrimination experienced by women globally
‘Fathoms: The World in the Whale’ by Rebecca Giggs
The Australian writer’s lyrical consideration of our relationship with whales is a new and ambitious kind of nature writing
‘The Topeka School’ by Ben Lerner
The American author’s latest novel canvasses the seething hate speech of the burgeoning alt-right and white-boy rap battles in the Midwest
The Art Gallery of NSW’s examination of Japan’s centuries-long artistic traditions depicting the spirit world and the macabre
‘The Man Who Saw Everything’ by Deborah Levy
The British author experiments with a narrative structure that collapses past and present
‘The Testaments’ by Margaret Atwood
The Booker Prize–winning sequel to ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ is an exhilarating thriller from the “wiliest writer alive”
‘Civilization: The Way We Live Now’
The beautiful photographs of often grim subjects in NGV Australia’s exhibition raise questions over the medium’s power to critique
‘The Weekend’ by Charlotte Wood
The Stella Prize–winner returns with a stylish character study of women surprised by age