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Women, Men and the Whole Damn Thing
'How to find the right words to frame this horror? How to understand why men do what they do to women? How to comprehend this malign force that seems to seep from the male psyche and infect us all? . . . That is the central hope, the appeal, embedded in this book: that other men might join me in this investigation and ruthless self-interrogation-and in doing so, become part of the change that is so urgently required.' David Leser In February 2018, the Good Weekend cover story by David Leser, 'Women, men and the whole damn thing', had an extraordinary response. David received hundreds of personal messages from readers around the world - both women and men - urging him to expand his story. Her...
To Begin To Know
A deeply moving and searingly honest memoir about fathers and sons Wasn't that the whole point of being alive? To ask the right questions, not just as a journalist but as a human being? To not just examine other people's dark, cold, self-hating, contradictory, disconnected places, but to examine one's own, given that this was possibly the most uncomfortable inquiry one could ever undertake? Not to rush to one position or another, but to allow disparate ideas to co-exist, within ourselves and within others. To begin to know oneself, and to begin to know that we don't know. More than a decade ago, journalist David Leser started writing a biography of his famous father, legendary magazine publi...
Somebody Save Me
A thought provoking collection by journalist David Leser that delves into the key social issues of the 90s.
The Whites of Their Eyes
The Whites of Their Eyes is a compelling anthology of 23 profiles written by David Leser, arguably Australia's leading profile writer.
The Rime of the Ancient Bludgeoner
David Leser talks to A.D. Hope, the iconoclastic patriarch of poetry, whose savage critical wit has had other writers quaking in their boots.
Dames & Divas
Since joining The Australian Womens Weekly five years ago as a senior writer, David Lesers perceptive interviews have created a unique picture of the place that women of all ages occupy in THE world. Here, collected for the first time with all their clarity and insight, are many of the most memorable. Davids first feature for the Weekly was a world-exclusive interview with Anna Murdoch, the former wife of media magnate Rupert Murdoch. Since then, he has written extensively on a wide range of social and political issues, including the refugee crisis in Australia and fatherhood. However, it is through his profiles with prominent women like businesswoman Janet Holmes à Court, photographer June Newton, artist Judy Cassab and writer Barbara Blackman that he has really touched a chord with our readers. As you will see from this collection, David manages to engage the reader in an intimate and evocative manner, drawing them into the lives of his subjects.
Women, Men, and the Whole Damn Thing
A brilliant, impassioned, unflinching account of the firestorm of #MeToo, how we got there, and where we must now go. In Women, Men, and the Whole Damn Thing, author David Leser presents an essential and incisive investigation, unearthing the roots of misogyny, its inextricable links to the patriarchy, and how history brought us to the #MeToo movement and the wave of incandescent female rage that is sweeping the world. Crucially, he also interrogates his own psyche, privilege, and culpability as he bears witness to the “collective wound of the world” and asks how we can move towards healing and profound and permanent change. This book calls on men (yes, all men) to be accountable for the...
A View from the Lake
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Bronwyn Bishop
In this compelling, unauthorised biography, David Leser, a journalist with an enviable reputation for finding the person behind the polished facade, tells us about the real Bronwyn Bishop.
Tomorrow They Won't Dare to Murder Us
Lyrical and radical, a debut novel that created a sensation in France Winner of the Prix Goncourt for first novel, one of the most prestigious literary awards in France A young revolutionary plants a bomb in a factory on the outskirts of Algiers during the Algerian War. The bomb is timed to explode after work hours, so no one will be hurt. But the authorities have been watching. He is caught, the bomb is defused, and he is tortured, tried in a day, condemned to death, and thrown into a cell to await the guillotine. A routine event, perhaps, in a brutal conflict that ended the lives of more than a million Muslim Algerians. But what if the militant is a “pied-noir”? What if his lover was a member of the French Resistance? What happens to a “European” who chooses the side of anti-colonialism? By turns lyrical, meditative, and heart-stoppingly suspenseful, this novel by Joseph Andras, based on a true story, was a literary and political sensation in France, winning the Prix Goncourt for First Novel and being acclaimed by Le Monde as “vibrantly lyrical and somber” and by the journal La Croix as a “masterpiece”.
