Joanna Kavenna selects her favourite books that reveal how we are scrutinised – including a history of black slavery and classics by Atwood and OrwellWith immaculate irony, Facebook announced its new cryptocurrency, hoping to bring the financial transactions of its 2.4 billion users on to its platform, in the year...

Three years after controversial speech in Brisbane, US author denounces cultural ‘control’, ‘obedience’ and ‘conformism’ Three years after vowing never to return to Australia, author Lionel Shriver says she stands by her controversial keynote speech at the Brisbane writers’ festival in 2016, calling identity politics “fascistic”.Sunday night marked the American...