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‘How To Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy’
Jenny Odell makes a convincing case for moving beyond the ruthless logic of use
‘The Man Who Saw Everything’ by Deborah Levy
The British author experiments with a narrative structure that collapses past and present
The writer of ‘Took the Children Away’ delivers a memoir of his Stolen Generations childhood and an album of formative songs
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
‘Here Until August’ by Josephine Rowe
The Australian author’s second short-story collection focuses on the precipice of change rather than its culmination
Our largest sexual organ: Amee Baird’s ‘Sex in the Brain’
We know surprisingly little about how our brains orchestrate our sex lives
Jane Austen as reviewed by men on Goodreads
‘The White Girl’ by Tony Birch
An emotionally eloquent novel about the necessary inheritance of strength in Indigenous women
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 Other Americans’ by Laila Lalami
An accidental death in a tale of immigrant generations highlights fractures in the promise of America