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Melbourne Writers Festival director Veronica Sullivan.

Festivals have ‘privileged literary works’ over popular, commercial fiction: Veronica Sullivan

As the new director of the Melbourne Writers Festival, Veronica Sullivan has tried to create a program with broad appeal.

  • Kylie Northover

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Jane Caro: “I didn’t write my first best-selling novel until I was 65.”

I may have been late to my writing career, but this is why it’s a blessing

For a long time, I was a bit sheepish about my late start, but I don’t feel like that now.

  • Jane Caro
“A convincing sex scene is like fight choreography: you want it to be safe.”

‘Is it sexier to swerve?’: Actor Toby Schmitz pivots to his fallback plan

The TV and theatre performer discusses how to endure working out, who he likes spending money on and writing a convincing sex scene.

  • Benjamin Law
We think of desire as being something intrinsically human. But these drugs seem to indicate that it’s just science.

‘Miracle’ weight-loss drugs shut down desire, but where’s the fun in that?

Drugs such as Ozempic cut our craving for food. But they can’t control our hunger for all the good things in life.

  • Jacqueline Maley
Irish writer Colum McCann’s new book is called Twist.

When the internet cut out, Colum McCann boarded a ship – and found his next novel

The writer joined the crew of the Leon Thevenin as they trawled the bottom of the ocean looking for a break in a cable.

  • Jane Sullivan
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Why do all book covers look the same now?

That book looks so familiar to you … because it is.

  • Michael Sun
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Ava Maguire at the Gertrude and Alice Cafestore during her Global Book Crawl. She has a BookTok account called My Little Lost Library. Pictured here at Gertrude and Alice Bookshop, Bondi Beach. Monday 21st April 2025 SMH photo Louie Douvis

Meet the 21-year-old BookToker doing a crawl through Sydney’s independent bookshops

Ava Maguire turned her love of reading into a thriving community via her TikTok account – but when it comes to buying books, she prefers to go analogue.

  • Chris Hook
Diana Reid, 28, moved to London from Sydney in 2023.

Is trauma the only story we know how to tell? Diana Reid thinks twice

In her new novel, the Australian author takes aim at our cultural obsession with trauma.

  • Melanie Kembrey
Forever a tadpole, never a toad.

Could this be the best science story of 2025?

Put it this way: if I said “Peter Pan tadpole” would you like to know more?

  • David Astle
Author Lauren Tesolin-Mastrosa.

Sydney erotica author charged over alleged child abuse material back in court

The 33-year-old has learnt the outcome of her bid to have her identity suppressed.

  • Kerrie O'Brien

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