From the latest books by Rachel Cusk and Kevin Kwan to apocalypse philosophy, these are the best books our critics read in June
ABCEnjoyed our Big Weekend of Books, but want more great reads to snuggle up with over the winter months? Our trusted gang of avid readers — The Book Show's Claire Nichols and Sarah L'Estrange, ABC Arts' Nicola Heath and writer Declan Fry — have picked their favourites from the last month for you. "With Parade, I've made a bit of a leap into trying to step out of personal identity altogether and find … more communal voice," Cusk told RN's Big Weekend of Books. Each of Parade's four sections — The Stuntman, The Midwife, The Diver and The Spy — tells the story of an artist identified only by the initial G. Uniting each iteration of "G" is a concern with artistic creation's excessive quality, how it demands communion with the innermost parts of the creator even as it tends to outstrip self-knowledge. — Claire Nichols On Extinction: Beginning Again at the End by Ben Ware Verso Francis Fukuyama infamously predicted the "end of history" in 1989, forecasting neoliberalism's triumph as the ideal system of governance.
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