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Bo Seo on how to have a good argument

Rachel Franks on colonial Australia’s noseless hangman

Jennifer Down on why we need to read about trauma

Jilda Andrews and John Carty on Aboriginal art and what it means to belong

Evelyn Araluen on the dark side of Blinky Bill

Siang Lu on who gets to be a Hollywood hero

SL Lim on rage, revenge and unfairness

Brigid Delaney on how the Stoics taught her not to worry

Paul Cleary on land rights, native title and big mining

Omar Musa on using humour to talk about racism, colonialism and inequality

Hannah Kent on challenging shame through historical fiction

Craig Sherborne on love, death and complicated mothers

Yumna Kassab on how we imagine Australia in literature

Chelsea Watego on sovereignty, survival and self-determination in the colony | Book It In podcast

Heidi Everett on foxes, care and language of the mental health system

Emily Bitto on gender and the hero’s quest

Marion Frith on hope in the aftermath of war

Debi Marshall on the popularity of true crime

Rawah Arja on how to get inside the mind of a teenage boy

Tony Birch on writing true characters in fiction

Kathryn Heyman on fury, trauma and personal transformation

Alice Pung on writing as work

Tara June Winch and Thomas Mayor on Indigenous masculinity

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