Nathan Dunne is the author of When Nothing Feels Real, published by Murdoch Books on June 3, 2025. The book is a memoir about living with depersonalisation, a mental illness that is frequently misunderstood.

Dunne was born in Brisbane, Australia and grew up in India. After graduating from the University of Sydney with the University Medal, he studied art history at Cambridge University and received a PhD from Birkbeck College, University of London. He has lectured at Harvard and Yale, and also worked for several years at Tate Modern. 

As a journalist and critic, he has contributed to many publications, including The Washington Post, The Atlantic, The Boston Globe, The Guardian, Slate, Los Angeles Review of Books, Literary Hub, Catapult, The Irish Times, The Dublin Review, Times Literary Supplement, Radical Philosophy, Aeon and Artforum. He has reported stories from four continents on a range of cultural and historical topics, from a museum in Armenia to a heavy metal band living in the Simpson desert. 

He recently appeared as an expert in the documentary film Whaam! Blam! Roy Lichtenstein and the Art of Appropriation, available on multiple streaming services.