Review
A compendium of idiotic ideas, from hacky sack to influencers
Former Chaser member Dominic Knight explores millennia of bad ideas.
- by Pat Sheil
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Helen Garner’s new book celebrates the purity in observance
The Season is a the acclaimed author’s memoir-diary of her time watching her grandson’s football team. It’s Death in Venice with Sherrin balls.
- by Declan Fry
Tired tropes, purple prose: Murakami’s new novel is for diehard fans only
The writing in The City And Its Uncertain Walls is so overwrought, the prose so purple, I half expected Prince to come back from the dead to sing about it.
- by Bram Presser
Romcom, horror and Indigenous romance: 2024’s best queer YA novels
The queer genre in young adult fiction is booming. Here are four of the year’s best.
- by Frances Atkinson
Michael Caine’s guide to life bursts with legendary anecdotes
Now 90, the storied actor reflects on his long career with charm and honesty. The result is riveting.
- by Peter Craven
The year in books: Writers pick the best reads of 2024
Ian Rankin, Bonnie Garmus, Min Jin Lee and more tell us what they’ve enjoyed reading over the past year.
Cosmic science, dystopian fiction, and other new books
Our reviewers cast their eyes over new fiction and non-fiction releases
- by Cameron Woodhead and Fiona Capp
Obsession, a scandalous separation and the new Helen Garner: Twelve new books in time for Christmas
The lead-up to Christmas is peak book-buying time, and here is a round up of 12 new works that will keep readers entertained, provoked and reflecting.
- by Jason Steger
Dogs and long waits: Merkel recalls Putin’s ‘power games’
The former German chancellor’s memoirs are out. And she’s saying a lot more in public than she did in 16 years.
- by Geir Moulson
Cher reveals the best advice she ever received, in her new memoir
Lucille Ball gave the singer some sage advice about Sonny Bono – something Cher reveals she paid forward to Tina Turner.
- by Nathan Smith
Scurrilous gossip, literary rivalry and Jim Morrison’s manhood
This dual biography of novelist Joan Didion and artist and 1960s It girl Eve Babitz dredges up hot Hollywood gossip of the highest order.
- by Cameron Woodhead