Literature
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Best book club bets: the must-read books for winter
This gripping novel is the story of Lex, a New York lawyer with a dark past. Georgie Gordon The Age…
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Miles Franklin Literary Award 2021 shortlist announced
Australian-Indian author Aravind Adiga, who won the Booker in 2008 with his debut The White Tiger, is one of six…
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“200 years of Freedom and Hellenism”
Press release: 4th International Literary Competition NOSTOS The Greek Cultural Organization “Nostos” participates in the festivities for the 200 years…
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Moved by words: how poetry helps us express our feelings
Gorman has been described as bringing poetry to the masses. Maria Takolander The Conversation However, when it comes to the…
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Guide to the Classics: Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, a tragicomedy for our times
Vivian Mercier, the critic for the Irish Times, dubbed it “a play in which nothing happens, twice.” Mark Byron The…
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Belvoir’s The Cherry Orchard is a laugh-out-loud tragedy for uncertain times
But the conditions for those future events were already all around him. Huw Griffiths The Conversation Rapid industrialisation and urbanisation…
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The Stella shortlist: your guide to 2021’s powerful, emotional books
Good. Authors The Conversation We’ve come a long way. We’ve a long way to go… The Stella shortlist:…
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Arnold Zable – Australia Council Lifetime Achievement Award in Literature
I am touched and honoured in receiving the Australia Council Lifetime Achievement award in literature — especially on this day…
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This former surgeon’s work ethic was maniacal – but it wasn’t enough for her to succeed
We are both Asian. Jessie Tu The Sydney Morning Herald We are both achievement focused. We didn’t get hugs as…
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After a year of digital learning and virtual teaching, let’s hear it for the joy of real books
More surprising, perhaps, is the impact these lockdowns have had on children’s and young people’s self-reported enjoyment of books and…
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Nobel winner Kazuo Ishiguro reaches for the sun
Our narrator, Klara, is a robot, an “Artificial Friend”, or AF, designed as a subservient companion for children. Liam Pieper…
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John Keats: how his poems of death and lost youth are resonating during COVID-19
This might seem appropriate on the 200th anniversary of the death of Keats, who was popularly viewed as the young…
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Guide to the classics: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland — still for the heretics, dreamers and rebels
What is it that makes Alice, in the words of literary critic, Harold Bloom, “a kind of Scripture for us”…
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Isabel Allende: ‘Everyone called me crazy for divorcing in my 70s. I’ve never been scared of being alone’
The Chilean American author Isabel Allende was a feminist long before she knew what the word meant. Fiona Sturges The Guardian At…
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Beverley Farmer and the solitude of the writing life
In February 1987, when she wrote these words, Beverley Farmer was the author of two collections of short fiction and…
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Film review: in My Salinger Year, hope and optimism win out
Rakoff’s sole responsibility was to read the constant stream of fan mail sent to its most famous client, JD Salinger,…
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