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‘The Committed’ by Viet Thanh Nguyen
The philosophical thriller sequel to ‘The Sympathizer’ sends its Vietnamese protagonists to the Paris underworld
A bite worse than her bark: Lauren Oyler’s ‘Fake Accounts’
The American critic’s debut novel captures the experience of living on and through the internet
‘Fragile Monsters’ by Catherine Menon
Memories of the Malayan Emergency resurface when a mathematician returns to her home country, in the British author’s debut novel
History and suffering matter in the latest instalment of the American author’s Gilead novels
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
Cancel the woke: ‘Cynical Theories’
Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay attack ‘wokeism’ with a reductive account of its theoretical underpinnings
Towards redemption: Sofie Laguna’s ‘Infinite Splendours’
The Miles Franklin–winning author’s latest novel is an invasive, challenging story of child abuse and its repercussions
‘The Living Sea of Waking Dreams’ by Richard Flanagan
The Booker Prize winner’s allegorical new novel about the permanence of loss
Rebuilding a more egalitarian, altruistic and communitarian society without sacrificing individual liberties