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• Superstars of the literary and musical world: Margaret Atwood’s new memoir; Hannah Kent’s critical readings; Stuart Coupe’s musical knowledge; Bob Dylan... 27.11.2025
• Salman Rushdie's latest/Scandi noir/Australian crime fiction wrap & more... 20.11.2025
• Fiction bending reality in new books by Thomas Pynchon, Olivia Laing and Jeanette Winterson 13.11.2025
• Madeleine Gray's Chosen Family + Chris Kraus and Graeme Macrae Burnet 06.11.2025
• October Book Buzz: Andrew Pippos, Kiran Desai, Olga Ravn & More 30.10.2025
• We reveal the books that didn’t quite make the Top 100 24.10.2025
• Brisbane Writers Festival: Eric Puchner, Toni Jordan, Patrick Holland, Zeynab Gamieldien 16.10.2025
• Four new memoirs: Mandy Sayer/Elizabeth Gilbert/Arundhati Roy/S. Shakthidharan 09.10.2025
• Top Poems of the 21st Century 02.10.2025
• Patricia Lockwood's auto-fiction-ish Will There Ever Be Another You + The Buffalo Hunter Hunter + The Original 25.09.2025
• Ian McEwan's What We Can Know + new work from Olga Tokarczuk and Miranda Darling 18.09.2025
• Still Turning Heads at 250: Jane Austen’s Enduring Charm 11.09.2025
• Superstar children's author Andy Griffiths reviews! Plus, Omar Musa's Fierceland and Geoff Dyer's Homework 04.09.2025
• Greyhounds, dark academia and an Amish community in new fiction by Toni Jordan, R.F. Kuang and Ron Rindo 28.08.2025
• A simmering summer in Greece, rare snails, dystopia with a twist: new fiction by Amy Taylor, Leif Enger and Maria Reva 21.08.2025
• AI in America, a kidnapping in Corsica, the transformative power of boxing: books by Gary Shteyngart, Darrow Farr, and Lucas Schaefer 14.08.2025
• People turning into trees, mythical rivers rising...new novels by Rhett Davis and Gurnaik Johal (plus, Irish fiction with Colm Tóibín) 07.08.2025
• 2025 Miles Franklin Literary Award assessed 31.07.2025
• Parties, scandals, sex, love: new novels by Nell Zink, Amy Bloom and the controversial James Frey 24.07.2025
• New Australian crime + hungry ghosts and a great white whale 17.07.2025