Robert Webb, Paul Capsis, Tony Birch and Justin Heazlewood reflect on masculinity and the pressures and expectations of growing up as boys.

Benjamin Law, Santilla Chingaipe, Nakkiah Lui and others confront race, difference and the problem of Australian identity.

Anna Rose, Tony Birch, Jim Robbins reflect on what it means to live in an age of climate change.

Toby Schmitz, Carmen Maria Machado, Sami Shah and Nadia Niaz on the stories that haunt us.

Emily Wilson, Linda Jaivin, David Vann and others reflect of the process of translation.

Ceridwen Dovey, Cory Doctorow and Colson Whitehead reflect on the agony and ecstasy of the creative process.

Benjamin Law and mother Jenny Phang, Maxine Beneba Clarke, Monica Dux and more on the intimate, personal, highly charged category of mothers.

Francesca Donner, Kate McClymont, Matilda Dixon-Smith reflect on ongoing social and cultural upheaval produced by the #MeToo movement.

Teju Cole, Sarah Sentilles and Gary Osmond reflect on the power of images, photography and the ways in which we look, witness and turn away.

Clementine Ford, Nelly Thomas, Sami Shah and others on the stereotypes and assumptions that define, describe and limit difference.