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1 week ago | 
theguardian.com | Steph Harmon |Sian Cain |Michael Sun |Lucy Clark |Celina Ribeiro |Alyx Gorman | +3 more
I Want Everything by Dominic AmerenaFiction, Simon & Schuster, $34.99This debut novel luxuriates in the lies it weaves. Dominic Amerena is a confident storyteller, jumping between the novel’s two narrators with ease. One, a down-on-his-luck writer searching for a story. The other, a reclusive Australian novelist who disappeared from the public eye at the height of her career.
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1 month ago | 
msn.com | Steph Harmon |Jack Callil |Steve Dow |Fiona Wright |Claire Cao |Dee Jefferson | +3 more
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1 month ago | 
theguardian.com | Steph Harmon |Jack Callil |Steve Dow |Fiona Wright |Dee Jefferson |Celina Ribeiro | +2 more
Unsettled by Kate GrenvilleNonfiction, Black Inc, $36.99 Illustration: Black Inc BooksTwenty years after she fictionalised her ex-convict great-great-great-grandfather Solomon Wiseman in The Secret River, speculating he took part in killing Dharug people, Grenville makes a pilgrimage through the landscape of northern New South Wales to better understand more than two centuries of suffering by Indigenous people dispossessed by colonisation.
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1 month ago | 
theguardian.com | Celina Ribeiro
Millions have been gripped by a story of toxic masculinity in children that’s been called a ‘wake-up call’. But is it a moral panic, and how should we respond?
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Feb 6, 2025 | 
theguardian.com | Celina Ribeiro
Illustration: Adam Parata/The GuardianOne evening in her parents’ home in New Zealand in 1993, Shirley Jülich told her father something she had kept secret from him for her whole life. Jülich revealed to her father that she had been a victim of sexual assault by a man known to the family. Decades before. Her brother revealed the same. Their father, a police officer, did not waste any time. “My father just said, ‘OK we’ll have a meeting tomorrow morning,’” she recalls.
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Nov 17, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Celina Ribeiro
At 7am on a Wednesday I drop my child off for a two-night school camp. The first big school camp. Children carry their pillows under their arms and drag behind them suitcases whose wheels and weight they can barely manage. They’re nervous. Excited. Some cry. By 7.45am they have loaded their bags. Through the coach’s tinted windows I can see that my daughter has settled in next to her friend so I wave goodbye and head to work. Before 10am my phone pings.
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Oct 4, 2024 | 
msn.com | Sian Cain |Steph Harmon |Joseph Cummins |Dee Jefferson |Bec Kavanagh |Michael Sun | +2 more
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Oct 4, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Sian Cain |Steph Harmon |Joseph Cummins |Dee Jefferson |Bec Kavanagh |James Bradley | +3 more
Juice by Tim WintonFiction, Penguin Random House, $49.99 (hardback)Juice is a Tim Winton novel, but not as you know it. Though it shares many concerns with his other works – the environment, family, the costs of an activist’s life – it also has an urgent energy I haven’t see before: a zing that jolts you out of your comfort zone, like a slap to the face.
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Aug 2, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Celina Ribeiro
At what must be the world’s most well-situated lawn bowls club, the ground is stripped to flat squares before the infinite, impossible blue of the Pacific Ocean. From the Clovelly clifftop, the sea itself is geometric: the horizon, a clean faithful line. Just down the hill from here, beyond the rock pools, says Dr Norman Swan, is one of the best swimming spots in Australia. It has been a cold winter, but today – if you only looked at it – could be mid-summer. The sky is cerulean.
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Aug 1, 2024 | 
msn.com | Steph Harmon |Imogen Dewey |Claire Keenan |Celina Ribeiro |Paul Daley |Clare Millar | +2 more
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