Five gay things I learned from The Boy In The Dress

A story of a murder in the 1940s becomes a much bigger, and queerer, tale of Australia’s history.

Review: Otherlands by Thomas Halliday

A safari through time with an urgent message about the future.

An investigation into breaking down old ones and making new ones.

Lee’s memoir is a complicated depiction of parents and parenting.

Deborah Levy concisely summarises what makes her own writing so compelling.

A harrowing memoir of growing up gay in regional Australia.

A gripping, frightening and weirdly hopeful look at the lengths we’ll have to go to to fix global problems.

A urgent stocktake of the Black Summer, which burned a fifth of Australia’s forests.

A blistering indictment of the treatment of victims of sex crimes by the legal system.

Toxic is a polemic against Tasmania’s farmed salmon industry.