One hundred years after Virginia Woolf explored the limitations of language in On Being Ill, the Piranesi author reflects on the power of storytelling to shape our experience of sickness ...

As allegations of LLM use rock the literary and media worlds, linguists explain what really distinguishes human and machine language, while novelists including Jennifer Egan and Jeanette Winterson ref ...

For Ross and Rachel Menzies, making peace with our smallness can help us navigate the challenges of human existence ...

This lavishly researched book shows that dots and dashes are an essential component of style, whether you’re a medieval monk or Donald Trump ...

Covering three generations, this tangled story of secrets, childhood, abandonment and care might be her best work yet ...

A mother and son scavenge and pillage in a violent post-apocalyptic world, in the poet and short story writer’s tense and engrossing debut ...

From classical painting to video games, this survey of the taboo and the twisted won’t let you look away ...

The major acquisition is part of an initiative to redress the gender imbalance in the State Library of Victoria’s rare books collection ...

Italian academic and author who challenged traditional approaches with his pursuit of microhistory ...

Two gay Afghan men find each other in Istanbul, in a much-hyped debut that fails to sustain the killer energy of its opening act ...

Each month Guardian Australia editors and critics pick the upcoming titles they have devoured – or can’t wait to get their hands on ...