This account of ancient rock art in Eurasia, Arabia and the Sahara attempts to discover the beliefs of the people who created ...

Esther Anatolitis reveals how closely Australia’s constitution ties us to the whims of the English monarch, and makes the ...

Barry Nicholls turns in a masterly review of the 1972 Ashes series, arguing that Australia’s tour of England reflected ...

Set in Singapore, Jared Poon’s first novel is fantasy fiction that asks whether our brains only register what we want to see ...

Adam Thompson’s vivid stories encompass resistance, revenge, and hard truths. The 16 stories that comprise Adam Thompson’s debut collection are all set among Tasmania’s Aboriginal community. Many of ...

With the new year barely begun, take a look back at our top ten reviews of 2025. It’s always fascinating to see which reviews have attracted the most interest from readers. While this 2025 list leans ...

How will the future judge us? Ian McEwan’s new novel looks back at our world from the perspective of 2119. The first half of What We Can Know is set in 2119, a time in which Britain is a series of ...

No casual tombstone tourist, Mariana Enriquez details her fascination with cemeteries, their histories and their famous residents. Mariana Enriquez is a self-confessed connoisseur of cemeteries: a ...

A finalist in the Ngaio Awards for Best First Crime Novel, Paper Cage is the story of a divided community and a string of missing children. There’s not much that happens in Masterton that Lo Henry ...

Tara June Winch’s multi-award-winning novel is told in three voices, one of which takes the form of a dictionary. Yield, bend the feet, tread, as in walking, also long, tall – baayanha. Yield itself ...

Michael Warner doesn’t hold back in this examination of the scandals that have beset the AFL over the past two decades. In professional sport teams compete not only with each other on the field, but ...

Holden Sheppard’s second novel is more Lord of the Flies than teen exploitation story. Holden Sheppard’s Invisible Boys (2019) was a stunning debut that got a lot of attention when it was released. It ...