Voice, Democracy and the Future of Reform

This is a guest post by Gabrielle Appleby and Megan Davis, authors of The Failure of the Voice Referendum and the Future of Australian Democracy   Don’t be fooled by the silence. Australia is still catching its breath after the defeat of the Voice referendum in October 2023. The rejection...
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Reflections on Bollywood’s Golden Age

This is a guest post by Jasmine Sofia Jannif, author of Sentimental Songs, Melodrama and Filmic Narrative in Bollywood’s Golden Age (1951–1963) This book came to me late in life, but its origins go back to colonial heydays in the streets of Suva, Fiji, where with my father I watched...
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Cities Will Disappear

This is a guest post by Tony Fry, author of Disappearing Cities While the arrival of climate change is recognised by vast numbers of people globally, the scale and diversity of its impacts are not well comprehended. There is now a lot of data, and only a limited understanding, and...
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Ada, meet Ada: bridging the two cultures

This is a guest post by Mark Seligman, author of AI and Ada: Artificial Translation and Creation of Literature  Artificial intelligence has suddenly become real – or has it? To answer the question, we need a consensus definition of intelligence. We still don’t have one.   In the age of...
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Meet the Author: Sophie Kazan Makhlouf

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Artificial Intelligence and Music: From Resistance to Exploitation

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Featured Monthly Releases – February 2026

This February, embrace ideas that challenge perspectives and inspire meaningful dialogue. Take a look at our featured releases for this month. The Ecstasy of Reproduction: Postmodernity and Its Contemporaneity This...

Talk of the Town: Monthly Publishing Industry News Digest

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