The Future is History review:Masha Gessen dissects post-Soviet Russia

The Future is History review:Masha Gessen dissects post-Soviet Russia

While there has been a renewed concentration of power in Russia,the country is nowhere near as oppressive as North Korea.

  • byIan Cummins

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Educated review:Tara Westover's memoir of surviving her fundamentalist family

Educated review:Tara Westover's memoir of surviving her fundamentalist family

Educated is the story of how Tara survived her brutal childhood,but it is no revenge memoir. It is also a story about how love can survive in the face of cruelty.

  • bySian Prior
Afterglow review:Eileen Myles'dog memoir that plays with form and perspective

Afterglow review:Eileen Myles'dog memoir that plays with form and perspective

Afterglow is American poet Eileen Myles'first attempt at memoir,and it is an unconventional one in every sense of the word.

  • byMandy Sayer
Alexis Wright on track for another literary prize in the ABIAs

Alexis Wright on track for another literary prize in the ABIAs

There are many familiar faces and plenty of new ones in the shortlists for the Australian Book Industry Awards.

  • byJason Steger
Tara Westover:From Mormon fundamentalism to a Cambridge PhD in 10 years

Tara Westover:From Mormon fundamentalism to a Cambridge PhD in 10 years

Because of her family's Mormon fundamentalism,Tara Westover had never been to school. And when she got an education it had a profound effect on her life.

  • byJason Steger
Her Body and Other Parties review:Carmen Maria Machado's disconcerting stories

Her Body and Other Parties review:Carmen Maria Machado's disconcerting stories

Carmen Maria Machado's debut collection of stories are dizzying,disturbing,memorable and haunting.

  • bySophie Cunningham
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Pachinko review:Min Jin Lee's saga of Koreans in Japan is hard to put down

Pachinko review:Min Jin Lee's saga of Koreans in Japan is hard to put down

Pachinko is an intergenerational narrative with the unputdownable quality of soap plus the satisfactions of prose that can disclose realities and a set of interconnected stories that mirror the movement of history.

  • byPeter Craven
Former agent Francisco Cantu writes memoir on life in the US Border Patrol

Former agent Francisco Cantu writes memoir on life in the US Border Patrol

The horrors witnessed by this former US Border Patrol agent – and his culpability – left him with nightmares and an urge to write.

  • byMelanie Kembrey
The Court Reporter review:Jamelle Wells and her life among the baddies

The Court Reporter review:Jamelle Wells and her life among the baddies

As the ABC's court reporter Jamelle Wells has seen some extraordinary things and mixed with some horrible people.

  • bySteven Carroll
Obsidio review:Amie Kaufman&Jay Kristoff bring the Illuminae Files to an end

Obsidio review:Amie Kaufman&Jay Kristoff bring the Illuminae Files to an end

Obsidio is a reminder that throughout The Illuminae Files,the driving force of the books are the characters

  • byFrances Atkinson
The complications of the ties that bind

The complications of the ties that bind

Eleanor Limprecht's third novel continues her preoccupation with family,this time a women and her granddaughter

  • byCandida Baker