Maria Tumarkin is one of Australia’s most inventive and important non-fiction voices. Her latest book, Axiomatic, is her most pioneering yet. Part reportage, part philosophical meditation and part storytelling, it interrogates conventional wisdom about the role of the past in shaping the present. Previously nominated for the New South Wales Premier’s Literary Award and The Age Book of the Year, Maria discusses her boundary-shifting new work with the ABC’s Richard Fidler.

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