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The books we’re excited to read in the second half of 2025.

Thirty books we’ll be talking about for the rest of 2025

Clear your shelves. Here’s the fiction and non-fiction you can look forward to reading for the rest of the year.

  • Melanie Kembrey

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‘A lot of it is coming true’: Inside the final season of The Handmaid’s Tale

After nine years and two Trump presidencies, the darkest show on television is coming to an end. Everyone on set is painfully aware of the series’ relevance.

  • Jacqueline Cutler
Elisabeth Moss in season 6 of The Handmaid’s Tale.

The Handmaid’s Tale is back for its final season. Here’s what we know

The sixth season promises an epic rebellion inside the dystopian authoritarian “hellscape”, and an ending that will leave a mark.

  • Meg Watson
The alchemical mind that devised The Handmaid’s Tale is at work in Margaret Atwood’s short stories.

Margaret Atwood’s late husband haunts her profound new book

Old Babes in the Wood is marked by shocking flashes and jolts of horrifying imagery that point to the brutality of a darker truth.

  • Carmel Bird
Books to read in March.

The 10 books to read in March

There are new releases from Margaret Atwood, Sebastian Barry and Eleanor Catton, a biography of Tanya Plibersek and a 650-page whopper about our changing world.

  • Jason Steger
“She’s always had to fight that archetype of the perfect blonde beauty,” says a schoolfriend of Yvonne Strahovski. “But she’s not what people expect.”

From Sydney’s west to Hollywood’s A-list: Meet The Handmaid’s Tale’s Aussie star

Yvonne Strahovski is one of the best things about the dystopian TV hit – so good that most viewers have no idea she’s Australian, the daughter of Polish immigrants who know a thing or two about barbaric regimes.

  • Amanda Hooton
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Based on the book, the series portrays a dystopian future oppressive to women, and the growing resistance movement.

Trailer: The Handmaid's Tale

Based on the book, the series portrays a dystopian future oppressive to women, and the growing resistance movement.

A selection of Ralph Heimans’ portraits.

Ralph Heimans: royalty’s go-to painter

His parents took him to a psychologist because he wanted to be an artist. Now the Australian artist has painted the Queen and a host of other luminaries.

  • Bevan Shields
Judge Amy Coney Barrett served as a "handmaid", a term for high-ranking female leaders, in the People of Praise religious group.

US Supreme Court nominee served as a 'handmaid' in conservative Christian group

Old directories reveal that Judge Amy Coney Barrett, Trump's nominee for the Supreme Court, served as a 'handmaid' in a Christian group that believes in the supremacy of men.

  • Michael Biesecker and Michelle R. Smith
The Handmaid's Tale is among the most contested books in America.

I read America's most challenged books. The gay penguins did not corrupt me.

Part lament and part celebration, the The Top 10 Most Challenged Books is a call to arms for book lovers, but it's also an electrocardiogram of our nation's troubled heart.

  • Ron Charles

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