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Book It In: Marion Frith on hope in the aftermath of war

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

You can hear more episodes of Book It In here.

Here in the After by Marion Frith is published by HarperCollins.

Tony Birch on writing true characters in fiction

Paul Daley talks to Tony Birch about finding affection on the so-called margins of the inner city, the injustice of climate change and Blak humour. Birch also describes why he doesn’t view his fiction as having a political message

Dark as Last Night by Tony Birch was one of Guardian Australia critics and staff’s best Australian books for 2021.

‘We have yet to reach our postcolonial moment’: Chelsea Watego on colonialism and the canon

The Brisbane author and academic talks about her new book, settler colonialism and the everyday-ness of ongoing dispossession

Celebrated Munanjahli and South Sea Islander academic and writer Chelsea Watego unambiguously wrote her book Another Day in the Colony for an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readership.

Now is the right time to limit the government’s power to send Australian troops to war | Paul Daley

If Peter Dutton and his like want to conduct war games to enhance their pre-election prospects, perhaps they should play a few rounds of paintball

As a desperate Morrison government recklessly spruiks what it insists are the prospects of armed conflict with China, now is exactly the right time to introduce a legal curb on the federal executive’s unilateral capacity to commit Australian troops to war.

Tara June Winch and Thomas Mayor on Indigenous masculinity

Dear Son is a searing anthology of letters by First Nations fathers and sons. Two of Australia’s best authors discuss the tenderness and strength of Indigenous masculinity, in conversation with author and journalist Paul Daley

You can read Thomas Mayor’s recent opinion article here: I write while my children steal cars and rob houses: the awful human cost of racist stereotypes

Introducing Book It In: Tara June Winch and Thomas Mayor on Indigenous masculinity

Book It In, Guardian Australia’s latest podcast, explores what books teach us about the world we live in. Dear Son is a searing anthology of letters by First Nations fathers and sons. In this episode, two of Australia’s best authors discuss the tenderness and strength of Indigenous masculinity with Paul Daley

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