New Australian non-fiction
The Importance of Being Miserable review: a bracing antidote to happiness culture
Equal parts cultural history and philosophical takedown, The Importance of Being Miserable finds humour, clarity and unexpected hope in life’s…
Book review: Always Home, Always Homesick, Hannah Kent
Hannah Kent's first non-fiction book retreads the grounds of her Iceland-set bestseller, 'Burial Rites.'
Book Review: The Buddhist and the Ethicist, Peter Singer and Shih Chao-Hwei
A flawed and occasionally reprehensible dialogue between a Buddhist monastic and a moral philosopher on issues such as animal welfare,…
Book review: Hard Knocks, edited by Fiona Scott-Norman
I get knocked down, I get up again: stories of bullying in schools.