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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’
Snap-back: Dua Lipa’s ‘Future Nostalgia’
The British singer’s serendipitous album delivers shining pop with a reigning attitude of fortitude
Melbourne-born, New York–based filmmaker Kitty Green’s powerfully underplayed portrait of Hollywood’s abusive culture
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
For Robyn Davidson, her acclaimed memoir ‘Tracks’ was an act of freedom whose reception hemmed her in
Into the slippery unknown: ‘The Gospel of the Eels’
Patrik Svensson’s eloquent debut is a hymn to the elusiveness of eels and an ode to family
A bellyful: ‘The Trip to Greece’
Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon continue to charm in their final food odyssey
In search of emes (truth) in ‘Unorthodox’
The masterful Netflix series addresses the struggle to articulate female desire
Queer poetics: ‘Family Trees’ and ‘Throat’
Michael Farrell’s new collection exhibits his idiosyncratic technical strengths, while Ellen van Neerven’s asserts a more direct, and undeniable, voice