Zora Simic is an Associate Professor in History and Gender Studies in the School of Humanities and Languages at the University of New South Wales.
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A curiosity worth sweating over
Zora Simic
19 September 2025
Can relationships between academics and their students be defended?
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The price of pleasure
Zora Simic
5 June 2025
A journalist explores the “sexual wellness industry”
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Sister Lit
Zora Simic
4 March 2025
Josie McSkimming has written a rare kind of biography with sibling relationships at its core
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Before and after
Zora Simic
4 February 2025
Gisèle Pélicot’s daughter explores the repercussions of her father’s crimes
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Map-making and myth-busting
Zora Simic
14 December 2024
Joni Mitchell’s latest biographer creates a new geography of her work and influence
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Spy, accomplice, ghostwriter
Zora Simic
21 June 2024
Why did members of a historian’s family mysteriously go missing?
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“An unfathomable, shapeshifting thing”
Zora Simic
13 March 2024
Writer Adele Dumont charts trichotillomania — compulsive hair-pulling — from the inside out
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Shades of blue
Zora Simic
11 September 2023
Joni Mitchell’s Blue suffuses Amy Key’s memoir of single life
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Late bloomer
Zora Simic
10 July 2023
Singer-songwriter Lucinda Williams’s memoir is an instant classic
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Baked into our bricks
Zora Simic
7 June 2023
A writer considers the “state of the sexual nation”
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Letting loose
Zora Simic
26 April 2023
Sara Ahmed’s celebration of the feminist killjoy continues
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What is this thing I’m doing?
Zora Simic
13 October 2022
Two new books explore the territory between polyamory’s utopian history and its practice today
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Garner territory
Zora Simic
19 November 2021
Helen Garner is at her best in this third volume of her diaries
From the archive
Self and Other
Zora Simic
4 October 2021
Simone de Beauvoir’s previously unpublished novel The Inseparables is far more than an abandoned curiosity
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Back to the future
Zora Simic
14 September 2021
Amia Srinivasan follows up her breakthrough London Review of Books essay with a rewarding but sometimes frustrating essay collection
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Beyond the headlines and hashtags
Zora Simic
6 August 2021
Amani Haydar illuminates kinship, migration and shattering loss
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If not, try singing it
Zora Simic
11 June 2021
Sinéad O’Connor eschews the notion that art can be “too personal”
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What happens next
Zora Simic
10 April 2021
Books | Two Australian men write about trauma’s lingering effects
From the archive
French sensations
Zora Simic
19 March 2021
Two new books illuminate France’s #MeToo moment with more than a Gallic shrug
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Monsters are men
Zora Simic
8 February 2021
Books | A provocative essayist takes stock of “sex panics” and their legacies
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True stories from the manosphere
Zora Simic
25 November 2020
Books | How extreme misogyny affects us all
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Adventures in feminism
Zora Simic
20 May 2020
Books | We know a lot about Germaine Greer, but not so much about another trailblazer, Merle Thornton
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Awkward squad
Zora Simic
1 April 2020
“Difficult” women have often played key roles in feminist history
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On perfectionism
Zora Simic
6 November 2019
Books | “In harming myself, I was harming others,” writes Bri Lee in her follow-up to Eggshell Skull
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Muddy reality
Zora Simic
14 June 2019
What does it mean to reason, to hold beliefs and to experience emotions?
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