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Out Now: Faking It by Toby Walsh
A prescient analysis of what makes artificial intelligence so … artificial

The Successor: Read a Chapter
Read a chapter from The Successor: The High-Stakes Life of Lachlan Murdoch

Author Spotlight on David Hunt
In this interview, the bestselling author of Girt, True Girt and Girt Nation David Hunt speaks on his favourite stories from Australian history, his research, writing and procrastination processes, and the three books he thinks everyone should read. He’s as hilarious here as he is in all his books.

An interview with the author of Sex, David Baker
David Baker is a history and science writer who holds the world’s first PhD in Big History. He wrote the YouTube series Crash Course Big History, hosted by John and Hank Green in partnership with the Gates Big History Project, and The Shortest History of the World. His latest book is Sex: Two Billion Years of Procreation and Recreation.
In this interview, David talks Big History, shocking revelations in his research about sex, and what this book means for the present and future of sex and relationships.

Out Now: Killing for Country by David Marr
Killing for Country: A Family Story by David Marr is out now

October 2023 new releases from Black Inc.
Out this month: Killing for Country, Sex, Pivot to India and Faking It.

Out Now: Australia's Pivot to India
A thoroughly absorbing, must-read examination of why Australia’s relationship with India might hold the key to our future, by federal MP Andrew Charlton

An interview with David Marr and his publisher Chris Feik on Killing for Country: A Family Story
In this interview, David Marr speaks on his highly anticipated new book, Killing for Country: A Family Story – a gripping reckoning with the bloody history of Australia’s frontier wars.

A Q&A with Paul Cleary on the Yindjibarndi community and Fortescue Metals Group dispute
As the Federal Court case between the Yindjibarndi community of the Pilbara region and the Fortescue mining operation continues, Title Fight author Paul Cleary has you covered for the past, present and possible outcomes of the conflict.

Behind the Book: A Q&A with Micheline Lee on Quarterly Essay 91: Lifeboat
Welcome to another instalment of Behind the Book. In this series, we chat to the people who bring you the books you love from Black Inc. – from the names you know to those you definitely don’t. Today, we’re speaking to the author of Quarterly Essay 91: Lifeboat, Micheline Lee.