At a time when our society is growing increasingly divided, the world champion debater argues that we shouldn’t be aiming for fewer disagreements

Paul Daley speaks with the author of Nosey Bob’s biography about his 62 hangings and why Indigenous people and women were disproportionately sentenced to death

The winner of the 2022 Miles Franklin Award, Jennifer Down, had only one rule when she set out to write about a fictional survivor of child sexual abuse: do no harm

Two anthropologists with different lived experiences discuss the meaning of Country and how it guides them in the preservation of Aboriginal heritage, including the collection and repatriation of Aboriginal human remains

Gomeroi education academic Dr Amy Thunig experienced neglect as a child, but their home was also a refuge of safety and belonging

Are Blinky Bill and Snugglepot and Cuddlepie just cute and cuddly bush characters, or is there something more sinister behind these classic Australian fairytales?

Movie buff Siang Lu watched hundreds of movies for his debut novel The Whitewash, including many where white actors played characters of colour

The protagonist in SL Lim’s award-winning novel, Revenge, is unmarried, childless and denied a university education. In a story about inequality and disadvantage in one family – which echoes families around the world – the protagonist’s rage results in an unexpected conclusion

In 2018, Brigid Delaney experimented with the idea of living like a Stoic. Now she says the philosophy is a valuable tool for dealing with life’s modern dilemmas

Paul Cleary documents the Yindjibarndi community’s resistance and fight against Fortescue Mining Group

The Malaysian Australian author and poet wrestles with race, family and isolation in his new book, Killernova

Hannah Kent’s novel, Devotion, is a queer love story that is set in a pious, nineteenth century religious community

Craig Sherborne’s novel The Grass Hotel tells the story of caring for a mother who is declining with dementia. He talks to Paul Daley about his own complex upbringing

Australiana is a novel set in a nameless town in rural Australia, where Yumna Kassab explores universal experiences of inequality

Chelsea Watego talks to Paul Daley about why she says ‘fuck hope’ and why she wants to take her book, Another Day in the Colony, to Aboriginal readers in prisons

Heidi Everett uses the lyricism of music and the drawings of a four-legged friend to describe her various mental states

In a road trip prompted by an Australian man’s imagination of America, Emily Bitto explores the literary trope of the masculine hero’s quest – through her novel Wild Abandon

Paul Daley talks to Marion Frith about how she wrote a novel about life after loss and human resilience in the midst of trauma – by telling the story through an unlikely friendship between two fictional characters

Through personal tragedy and time spent telling the stories of victims, investigative crime journalist Debi Marshall says she’s found that closure doesn’t exist.

Despite numerous rejections, Rawah Arja was determined to write a YA novel for – and about – teenage boys in Western Sydney