How to Stand Up to a Dictator by Maria Ressa
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Category: Culture and Ideas
Inspirational 2021 Nobel Prize winner Maria Ressa's personal frontline manifesto in the war against authoritarianism's sinister uses of big tech. What will you sacrifice for the truth? Maria Ressa has spent decades speaking truth to power. But her work tracking disinformation networks seeded by her own ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 87: Uncivil Wars: How Contempt Is Corroding Democracy by Waleed Aly, Scott Stephens
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Category: Culture and Ideas
In this original, eloquent essay, Waleed Aly and Scott Stephens explore the ethics and politics of public debate - and the threats it now faces.In a healthy democracy we need the capacity to disagree. Yet Aly and Stephens note a growing tendency to dismiss and exile opponents, to treat them with contemp ...Show more
Everybody by Olivia Laing
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Category: Culture and Ideas
LONGLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2022. The body is a source of pleasure and of pain, at once hopelessly vulnerable and radiant with power. At a moment in which basic rights are once again imperilled, Olivia Laing conducts an ambitious investigation into the body and its discontents, using the ...Show more
A Question of Age: Women, Ageing and the Forever Self by Jacinta Parsons
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Category: Culture and Ideas
A beautifully written, searing and powerful examination of women and ageing that you will not be able to put down: intense, compelling, poetic, raging. Warning: this is not a self-help book. Or, a helpful book, necessarily. No one really needs 'help' with ageing. It will happen no matter what we do. Ne ...Show more
From Country with Love by Emma Gibbens; Rhys Paddick (Illustrator); Nathan Maddigan (Editor, Designed by)
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Category: Culture and Ideas
Spoken through Rhys Paddick and Emma Gibbens, From Country with Love walks readers into a world where connection flourishes. The book explores our connection to Country (land, nature, mother earth) and to each other. While the concepts are simple on first reading, their depth is demonstrated after conte ...Show more
Ideas to Save Your Life: Philosophy for Wisdom, Solace and Pleasure by Michael McGirr
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Category: Culture and Ideas
This book is about the quest for order in a perplexing world.Ideas to Save Your Life follows Michael McGirr's much-admired Books that Saved My Life (2018). This time, instead of sharing his love of literature, McGirr shares his love of philosophy, focusing on the works of twenty-plus eminent thinkers ac ...Show more
Desire: A Reckoning by Jessie Cole
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Category: Culture and Ideas
What to do with the intensity of longing that occasionally arises? Sometimes I hug my pup so hard he growls. When my pup growls, I realise I need to find some other way of letting off steam. It's easy to imagine I could just touch myself and be done with it, but no matter how many times I make myself co ...Show more
Black Lives, White Law: Locked Up and Locked Out in Australia by Russell Marks
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Category: Culture and Ideas
How and why Australia's legal system fails Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people Indigenous Australians are the most incarcerated people on the planet. Indigenous men are fifteen times more likely to be locked up than their non-Indigenous counterparts; Indigenous women are twenty-one times more ...Show more
In Praise of Good Bookstores by Jeff Deutsch
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Category: Culture and Ideas
From a devoted reader and lifelong bookseller, an eloquent and charming reflection on the singular importance of bookstores Do we need bookstores in the twenty-first century? If so, what makes a good one? In this beautifully written book, Jeff Deutsch--the director of Chicago's Seminary Co-op Bookst ...Show more
Wild Things: How We Learn To Read and What Can Happen If We Don't by Sally Rippin
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Category: Culture and Ideas
We love wayward children in literature. Not so much in life. When Sally Rippin discovered her child was struggling to read, the best-selling children’s author assumed it would sort itself out over time. She couldn’t have been more wrong. Her son’s dyslexia and ADHD went undiagnosed for years, leaving ...Show more