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The Convenience Store Woman author is renowned for challenging social norms in darkly weird near-future fiction. She discusses sex, feminism and her struggles to be an ‘ordinary earthling’

The mysterious death of an artist causes havoc among siblings in a novel that astutely observes family dynamics

Guardian Australia’s weekend wrap of essential reads from the past seven days, selected by Kris Swales

Students in Lamar can no longer learn about the state of Virginia on their online research database due to the ban

The mooInk V is the most book-like ereader I've ever seen

The Gamilaroi journalist and presenter on fame, reconciliation and how studying at Oxford changed the way she thinks about people in power

Young adulthood takes its toll on a relationship between two young women in a tenderly realised production of de Beauvoir’s unpublished story from the 1950s

Any attempt at recreating the contours of personal memory against the landscape of a nation’s historical journey is a daunting task for any chronicler. Even more challenging is the interweaving of an individual life into the tapestry of seven-and-a-half decades of national experience – a task that often calls for…

Not everything that sounds right is true. And far from everything that sounds fake is false. Reality is—quite often—stranger than fiction.

First known such ‘pamflyt’ in English has contemporary resonance, with advice on food intolerances and eating cheese after a meal

Narrator Meera Simhan draws out the dreamlike atmosphere of a young Indian woman’s quest through Mexico to find out more about her mother