Among next year’s highlights are debut fiction from Bri Lee, nonfiction from Peter Goldsworthy and a new novel from 2023 Miles Franklin winner Shankari Chandran
There is a war against statues; there is fearmongering against words. This is not the way to enter the past, with loaded words to impose superiority and self-censorship. The young should not be made afraid, bored or censorious by our past which is what it was and not what we would want it to have been