Winter is here and sickness is in the air. If you’re ailing, let’s hope it’s just the “weird cold-flu thing” (as a colleague described it) doing the rounds and not the affliction sweeping through Parliament House. Symptoms: going through the motions of democracy while eroding faith in it. I fear it may be terminal.
This week’s reads are not easy – a tale of survival, one of salvation, two of a climate in crisis. The perfect primer for the bleak worldview of Cormac McCarthy. If you’ve never read the US author, dead this week aged 89, here’s a guide on where to start.
