https://richardcooke.com/about daily 0.75 2025-06-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/568c87090e4c114023d811b8/a61d549a-c823-4cb4-b059-a9dfc4105664/2025+WEB+IMAGE.jpg ABOUT https://richardcooke.com/home daily 1.0 2022-12-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/568c87090e4c114023d811b8/1670761376384-EJGZUA6QAZR1F4L0JF3V/WIKI.jpeg Home https://richardcooke.com/contact daily 0.75 2023-08-27 https://richardcooke.com/news daily 0.75 2025-06-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/568c87090e4c114023d811b8/1670760768936-ZW0PCTBV0QYHO6LWEQZ7/Screenshot+2022-12-11+at+11.11.37+pm.png NEWS https://richardcooke.com/selected-work-1 daily 0.75 2023-08-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/568c87090e4c114023d811b8/1544851611179-LZKEJO1FD6KGKX5YWYD3/ar15+2.png SELECTED WORK https://richardcooke.com/books daily 0.75 2025-06-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/568c87090e4c114023d811b8/98671f09-e933-4d2f-bee0-4973db603e24/DSR+cover.jpeg BOOKS - Elon Musk: Dark Star Rising (Coming to the UK August) What happened to Elon Musk? This is an urgent, razor-sharp political biography of the world’s richest person. From self-described moderate to reactionary provocateur, from self-mythologised innovator to conspiracy peddler and chaos agent - Cooke exposes the roots of Musk’s transformation in the mythology of genius, the libertarian cult of disruption, and the tech elite’s growing comfort with authoritarianism. “You won't read a sharper or more necessary portrait than this – of a visionary cad, clown and genius who is both an exploding rocket yet also capable of landing on Mars, where he says he hopes to die; of a sociopathic and touchy Icarus who wants to save the world, but only on his own terms. It's terrific stuff.” - Nicholas Shakespeare “Read it and then beg everyone you know to read it too.” - Devorah Baum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/568c87090e4c114023d811b8/1580243977995-6WP6Z602UCBPHU4IAUAM/TOW.jpg BOOKS - Tired of Winning Twenty states. Twenty-six essays. From the theology of opioids to the aftermath of a mass shooting, from #MeToo to the paintings of George W. Bush, reporting from an East Coast ravaged by climate change to the dangerous world of the US–Mexico border. “Brilliant” - The Saturday Paper. “Humorous, poignant, and censorious” - Australian Book Review https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/568c87090e4c114023d811b8/1580244090293-CDHJBVOEP169UB98WSAD/ORD.jpg BOOKS - On Robyn Davidson Robyn Davidson, author of the classic memoir Tracks, has led a remarkable life of writing and nomadic travel. I n this crisp, erudite essay, acclaimed critic and journalist Richard Cooke explores Davidson’s relationship with place and freedom, and her singular presence in Australian letters. “Exquisite” - Peter Craven “Literary criticism at its best” - Fiona Capp, The Age (Pick of the Week)