Jennifer Trevelyan’s debut novel is both a coming of age story and a mystery full of secrets set within a 1980s New Zealand ...

Why are lonely men drawn to online misogyny? Australian sociologist Simon James Copland explores this disturbing phenomenon.

Longlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize, Tan Twan Eng’s novel reimagines the events in Penang that inspired a famous Somerset Maugham story.

Slim but richly imaginative, Ben Peek’s new novella combines dystopia and dark fantasy to hold a mirror to current times. In 1958, Patrick White decried Australian literature’s tendency to be the ...

Set on the Australian coast, Suzanne Do’s first novel is both a murder mystery and a story of grief, family and connection.

Set on the Australian coast, Suzanne Do’s first novel is both a murder mystery and a story of grief, family and connection. Lili Berry is in her twenties, and her world is a mess of anxiety, ...

PATRICK LENTON In Spite of You. Reviewed by Michael Jongen by NRB | 31 Jul 2025 | Fiction | 0 comments Patrick Lenton is known for his sharply observed non-fiction; now his first novel delivers a ...

Set on the Australian coast, Suzanne Do’s first novel is both a murder mystery and a story of grief, family and connection. Lili Berry is in her twenties, and her world is a mess of anxiety, ...

Can Australia pursue a defence strategy independent of the United States? Hugh White presents a compelling case to do so. In this Quarterly Essay, Hugh White is hoping to influence the politicians and ...

Silvia Moreno-Garcia mixes Mexican mythology with the history of US witchcraft in this new novel, once again reinventing genre tropes. Silvia Moreno-Garcia is one of the most varied – and consistently ...

At a time when ‘woke’ has become a term of abuse, AC Grayling argues that respect for human rights needs to be the basis of open debate. ‘Wokeism’ and ‘cancel culture’ became terms of war – culture ...

At a time when ‘woke’ has become a term of abuse, AC Grayling argues that respect for human rights needs to be the basis of open debate. ‘Wokeism’ and ‘cancel culture’ became terms of war – culture ...