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A A A By - Jun 10, 2026 2:42 pm AEST Author: George Saunders Publisher: Bloomsbury George Saunders—aka, your favourite writer’s favourite writer; lit fic’s biggest nice guy; another child of Dua Lipa—second novel, Vigil, is both brilliant and limited. As his long-awaited follow-up to his Booker-winning debut, it fails to expand Saunders’ breadth as a writer, but it nevertheless dazzles with its formal daring and kaleidoscopic characters. Saunders is back with the ghost thing.

By - Apr 29, 2026 9:00 am AEST Behind every legislative change sits a drafter—quiet custodians of the statute book who translate politics into law, navigate complexity and keep a sprawling legal system coherent enough to function. Inside the NSW Parliamentary Counsel’s Office, drafting is a human, interpretative craft that is every bit art as it is science. The common law world generates an exponentially expanding mass of statute.

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?