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Chris Minns’ protest ban is not just authoritarian: it is breathtakingly racist and must be resisted, writes Nick Riemer.

On the books we don't need about Bondi

In an attempt to exploit the horrific trauma produced by the recent mass shooting that devastated the Jewish community in Bondi, the state NSW premier, Chris Minns, announced that Labor would move to ...

How our school library and its book club focused on banned books changed us for the better.

[on the care and feeding of writers]

A peaceful pro-Palestine protest at Bondi Beach on the weekend was disrupted by white supremacists draped in Australian and Israeli flags.

US president says fifth-grade student forced to read aloud My Shadow Is Pink, a book about a boy who loves ‘things not for boys’

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The American essayist, playwright and author of books including A Boy’s Own Story and The Married Man, has died Edmund White, the American writer, playwright and essayist who attracted acclaim for his semi-autobiographical novels such as A Boy’s Own Story – and who literally wrote the book on gay sex, with the pioneering The Joy of Gay Sex – has died aged 85. His death was confirmed to the Guardian by his agent Bill Clegg on Wednesday. Continue reading...