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How to live a plain life
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November 2025, no. 481

Plain Life: On thinking, feeling and deciding by Antonia Pont

NewSouth, $34.99 pb, 272 pp

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#solutions

How to live a plain life
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November 2025, no. 481

We are living in an age of compartmentalisation. Technology promises increased productivity, even as our feeds routinely compel us towards #slowliving, #intentionalliving, and #simpleliving. These are offered as solutions to a range of loosely identified effects – political malaise, rampant consumerism, anxiety. In other words, the impossible contemporary condition. Often these #sponsored solutions are merely behaviours repackaged as needs – by the influencers, the lifestyle gurus, and the over-therapised, who instrumentalise the market logics they implore us to reject.

Plain Life: On thinking, feeling and deciding

Plain Life: On thinking, feeling and deciding

by Antonia Pont

NewSouth, $34.99 pb, 272 pp

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ABR receives a commission on items purchased through this link. All ABR reviews are fully independent.

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