/

Jessie Cole --

The medicine /

Karen Hitchcock --

Wolf like me /

Antonia Hayes --

Sex and cancer: a history in three parts /

Luke Ryan --

Dreams of her real self /

Helen Garner --

The old Australian? Oratava avenue, 1940 /

Sybille Smith --

The unremembered six /

Christian Ryan --

Doveton /

Dennis Glover --

My fellow Australians /

Don Watson --

Men of a certain age /

Rachel Nolan --

Freedom Abbott /

David Marr --

The last instruction of Patrick White /

J.M. Coetzee --

The agony and the ecstasy /

Nicolas Rothwell --

Oh Walt, you're a leaky vessel /

David Malouf --

Poems of a lifetime /

Clive James --

Reading Geoff Cochrane /

Carrie Tiffany --

Vale Doris Lessing /

Robyn Davidson --

Cry when you're gone /

Neil Murray --

Burning men: an American triptych /

Guy Rundle --

May day: how the left was lost /

Christos Tsiolkas --

The dream boat /

Luke Mogelson --

A natural wonder in peril /

Tim Flannery --

he island seen and fell: some thoughts about landscape /

Tim Winton.

In The Best Australian Essays 2014 , Robert Manne assembles his picks of contemporary non-fiction writing. This sharp collection of essays about the human condition evinces lucid insight, shrewd understanding and heartbreaking empathy. Previous contributors include Helen Garner, J.M. Coetzee, Gillian Mears, Tim Flannery, Robyn Davidson, Clive James, Chloe Hooper, David Marr, David Malouf, Robert Manne, Noel Pearson and Anna Krien.