Vincent Barry

A A A By - Mar 18, 2026 12:46 pm AEDT Author: Asako Yuzuki Publisher: Harper Collins As they say, there are books you finish and books that finish you. After a month of reading Asako Yuzuki, I am at an end. The late February rains pummel down. Summer is over. The static of the downpour vibrates with my vacant soul. I am now inured to the most insipid prose I have ever read. What’s the point anymore?

By - Nov 12, 2025 9:00 am AEDT In a polarised world, where many feel increasingly removed from government decision making, does deliberative democracy offer a way to restore our faith in democratic processes? It’s mid-2016 in Adelaide. It’s been raining for days. Wind relentlessly buffets the city. 52 random people are picking their way around a swarm of raincoated protestors and into a room brimming with journalists. Cameras and boom mics are thrust in their faces.

A A A By - Aug 13, 2025 9:00 am AEST Author: Nicolas Rothwell and Alison Nampitjinpa Anderson Publisher: Text Publishing Nicolas Rothwell is back at the fiction game with a new novel, Yilkari: A desert suite, this time co-authored with his wife, Alison Nampitjinpa Anderson. He is a decorated, fascinating figure of Australian literature, and she is a Luritja-Pintupi artist, First Nations polyglot, and former politician. Individually, they have led remarkable lives.