Books Educational sex book removed from Big W shelves after conservative backlash “Welcome to Sex,” an educational sex book for young people, has been removed from Big W shelves after backlash
Books Fat people are taught to hate themselves. Fat Girl Dancing could change that Kris Kneen’s ‘exquisite’ memoir about living in a fat body is deeply intimate. It somehow feels even more intimate than their books about sex and desire.
Books Our top five reads from First Nations writers this year In the last 12 months, several First Nations authors have released new works – many of them to great acclaim. Here are our top five.
Books Jacinda Ardern is writing a book on being ‘your own kind of leader’ Jacinda Ardern announces she’s writing a book, expanding on her unique style of leadership– one that’s kind and able to make a difference.
Books How recovering from brain surgery in Sydney inspired Karina May’s culinary rom-com The inspiration for Karina May’s first book came from a hospital bed. Find out more about how this moment changed her life.
News & Views New AI tool calls out gender bias in classic fairy tales A new AI-tool is explicitly exposing the severe gender biases that exist in fairytales such as Snow White, Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty.
Books Supporting women authors has big ripple effects. 2023 Stella-prize winner Sarah Holland-Batt is proof Stella-prize winner Holland-Batt shares how it was women who supported her creative endeavours while she cared for her dying father.
News & Views RecipeTin Eats founder Nagi Maehashi wins book of the year Nagi Maehashi, founder of RecipeTin Eats, has won the top prize at the Australian Book Industry Awards for her debut cookbook RecipeTin Eats: Dinner.
News & Views A brilliant life “cut short”: Vale Gabrielle Carey, co-author of Puberty Blues Gabrielle Carey’s death comes just months after she wrote a harrowing article about mental health in which she noted her terror of turning 64.
Books Let’s shift how we value caring: Stella Prize winner Sarah Holland-Batt The prestigious 2023 Stella Prize for Australian women’s writing has gone to Sarah Holland-Batt’s poetry collection, The Jaguar.
Books We need to hang out more. A simple solution for surviving our increasingly fractured and complex world Our world becomes more fractured, more digital, and more chaotic. Author Sheila Liming has the answer: we need to hang out more.
Books Small and independent publishers sweep Stella Prize shortlist The six titles shortlisted for this year’s Stella Prize were all published by small and independent Australian publishers.
