Friday essay: how the Murdoch media’s loyalty to Israel births hypocrisy, attacks and ‘failed journalism’Matthew Ricketson, Deakin University and Andrew Dodd, The University of Melbourne
The Founding Father of American literature, Charles Brockden Brown saw his nation’s dark sideHannah Lauren Murray, La Trobe University
Guide to the classics: John Steinbeck’s East of Eden has always been controversialPaul Giles, Australian Catholic University
Elon Musk is remaking the world, like Henry Ford before him – but more dangerouslyNoel Castree, University of Technology Sydney
This strange novel riffs on The Tempest, swapping its teen girl for a menopausal marine biologistJen Webb, University of Canberra
Australians are hungry for new history books – but historians are pressured not to publish locallyMichelle Arrow, Macquarie University; Frank Bongiorno, University of Canberra; Katie Holmes, La Trobe University, and Yves Rees, La Trobe University
Getting Murdoched is a fascinating study of the Murdoch media’s bullying tacticsDennis Altman, La Trobe University
Guide to the classics: Sigmund Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams gave us psychoanalysisNick Haslam, The University of Melbourne
What are your favourite books that deserve to be better known? 7 literary experts share theirsJames Ley, The Conversation
Generational conflict has been around forever – just ask the ancientsKonstantine Panegyres, The University of Western Australia
The true danger of AI may lie in its reflection of us, warns Anna GoldsworthyNiusha Shafiabady, Australian Catholic University
Chloe Wilson’s witty debut novel is refreshingly free of ‘psycho bitch’ clichés – but it’s too longLiz Evans, University of Tasmania
Hugh Jackman plays Robin Hood as wicked – it’s a badly timed take on the hero of the poorWilliam Hoff, The University of Melbourne
Friday essay: I had to crowdfund my cancer treatment in Australia’s ‘universal’ health-care systemNa'ama Carlin, UNSW Sydney
More than 1 in 3 Australian adults are functionally illiterate. How can we fix this?Genevieve McArthur, Australian Catholic University
How to read the classics in an age of distraction – and 3 short books to get you goingJohanna Harris, Australian Catholic University
Do we absorb information better on paper, rather than screens? It depends on the screenErik D Reichle, Macquarie University and Lili Yu, Macquarie University
Does your child only read graphic novels? That’s OK – it’s helping them build literacy skillsJudith Ridge, University of Tasmania and Robyn Cox, University of Tasmania
Teens came first at Australia’s world-leading Centre For Youth Literature – until it was axedBec Kavanagh, The University of Melbourne
Half of Australia’s bookshops closed within a decade. Should the government help?Katherine Day, The University of Melbourne; Bec Kavanagh, The University of Melbourne, and Matthew Holden
Women’s prize for non-fiction winner, The Finest Hotel in Kabul, gives voice to the people of AfghanistanMagnus Marsden, University of Sussex
From cloning romance authors to YouTube piracy, AI is transforming audiobooksMillicent Weber, Australian National University
Marjane Satrapi’s masterpiece Persepolis transformed the world’s understanding of IranShadi Rouhshahbaz, The University of Melbourne; University of Newcastle
Yáng Shuāng-zǐ, winner of the International Booker Prize, reveals a Taiwan many Australians have never seenMei-fen Kuo, Macquarie University
Friday essay: How to Sell a Genocide exposes the double standards of reporting on GazaJeff Sparrow, The University of Melbourne
Friday essay: despite the AI hype, some experts warn of a bubble – what happens if it pops?Luke Munn, The University of Queensland
Friday essay: I modelled myself on my sister – but why are storytellers obsessed with sisterhood?Edwina Preston, The University of Melbourne
This unsettling book says we live too long – but Australia’s problems lie in power, not ageIntifar Chowdhury, Flinders University
Where did language come from? Nobody really knows, but the theories are fascinatingKaren Stollznow, University of Colorado Boulder; Griffith University
Tim Wilson’s book advocates a far more radical overhaul of our tax system than Labor’s budgetJudith Brett, La Trobe University
Patrick Radden Keefe investigates Russian money in London through a teenager’s suspicious deathMatthew Ricketson, Deakin University
Pope Leo warns of AI’s risks to humanity in his first encyclicalNiusha Shafiabady, Australian Catholic University; Darius von Guttner Sporzynski, Australian Catholic University, and Sandie Cornish, Australian Catholic University
Australia’s frighteningly unequal funding system favours private schools, argues Jane Caro. How can we fix it?Elisa Di Gregorio, Adelaide University
These hidden songs survived the Holocaust – and helped singers to endure their own survivalJan Lanicek, UNSW Sydney
Why a 1,500-year-old monastic rulebook still challenges what it means to live a meaningful lifeEd Krčma, University of East Anglia and Jessica Barker, Courtauld Institute of Art
Chernobyl at 40: the lies, the loss and why we can’t let goKate Cantrell, University of Southern Queensland and Jessica Gildersleeve, University of Southern Queensland
Poet, playwright, spy: Stephen Greenblatt conjures the brilliant life of Christopher MarloweKate Flaherty, Australian National University
Guide to the classics: Margaret Cavendish’s The Blazing World pioneered speculative fiction, 400 years agoDonna Mazza, Edith Cowan University
Far-right ‘gangster morality’ and the search for meaning: why you should read CamusMatthew Sharpe, Australian Catholic University
Guide to the classics: ‘all for one, and one for all’ – the enduring appeal of The Three MusketeersDarius von Guttner Sporzynski, Australian Catholic University
Maggie O'Farrell flattens 19th century Ireland into a theme-pub cliché in her new novelAmy Walters, Australian National University
Antipodean prose poetry is coming into its ownCassandra Atherton, Deakin University and Paul Hetherington, University of Canberra
The real Robinson Crusoe has been reimagined with historical accuracy – except for the talking goatDonna Mazza, Edith Cowan University
Jacinda Ardern turns her own imposter syndrome into self-help wisdom for young readersKatie Pickles, University of Canterbury
What does the ‘avant-garde’ look like today? Two new novels give very different answersGiacomo Bianchino, University of Sydney
Amanda Lohrey’s UFO novel captures the uncertainties of reason, doubt and beliefRobbie Moore, University of Tasmania
Fiona Wright’s Kill Your Boomers sees the dark joke in Australia’s housing crisisBrigid Magner, RMIT University
Kathryn Heyman’s novel about dying and difficult families resists easy consolationsCatherine McKinnon, University of Wollongong
How to Dress for Old Age offers personal reflections and important lessons for facing life’s last actCatharine Coleborne, University of Newcastle
Romy Ash’s novel imagines the next pandemic as an eerily beautiful mushroom diseaseJane Rawson, University of Tasmania
Fast Food Nation predicted today’s chronic illness epidemic, 25 years agoNatasha Yates, Bond University
Female cannibals: what’s behind the emerging horror fiction trend?Charlotte Elliott, Flinders University
A compelling biography of A.D. Hope asks us to rethink his literary legacyBrigid Rooney, University of Sydney
Poetry for an anxious world: 5 experts share poems of grief, hope and restorationJames Ley, The Conversation and Jo Case, The Conversation
Fight Club at 30: toxic masculinity handbook or clever takedown of capitalism?Simon Copland, Australian National University
20 best New Zealand books of the 21st century: as chosen by expertsFinlay Macdonald, The Conversation; Jo Case, The Conversation; Matt Garrow, The Conversation, and Suzy Freeman-Greene, The Conversation
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