It’s not all black and white as Kobo gets colourful
Kobo has ended a 14-year black-and-white stretch with its first colour e-reader range. But there are different opinions within the company itself as to who it will attract.
Books
Suppression bars books for whole generation
Maia Kobab’s graphic novel Gender Queer has for a third successive year topped a list of works threatened with removal from libraries, schools and universities.
This classic French recipe book will have you drooling
It’s not all frogs’ legs and snails, you know. There is nothing pretentious or impractical about the 170 dishes in Classic French Recipes.
Should this book have been published?
The two sons of Gabriel Garcia Marquez have decided that the world should read his last book, written while the Nobel laureate grappled with dementia.
Bubbling with excitement? You bet I am
A new prize for Australian fiction; standing up to bullies on the literary festival circuit; a bold move by a legend of letters; and the Stella Prize shortlist, all in today’s column by literary editor Caroline Overington
Rewriting fictional sex (to make it great)
Why is so much of the sex in fiction so ordinary – especially for women? That was one of the key questions with which Bri Lee grappled while she was writing her first novel.
The Australian actor Robert Downey Jr saw ‘become a star’
Things are about to change for Australia’s dazzling Hoa Xuande. But at 36, the star of HBO’s upcoming The Sympathizer is anything but an overnight success story.
Melbourne Writers Festival bans all audience questions
In an extraordinary move, organisers will not allow any questions at all sessions, regardless of the topic, after festivals in Perth and Cairns were disrupted by anti-Israel protests.
Rebel Wilson memoir pulled from Australian shelves
The release of the comedian’s controversy-stirring memoir has been suddenly delayed in Australia, one week after she revealed receiving legal threats from former co-star Sacha Baron Cohen.
Founding Midnight Oil member’s one question: who am I?
Jim Moginie was aged 11 when he learned that truth. One afternoon, while on a ship from Tasmania returning to the mainland, his mother found him playing with the on-board water dispensers.
Author splits from library over Gaza views
The children’s author and illustrator Matt Chun has split from Victoria’s prestigious State Library over Gaza and slammed prominent Jews.
Want a book deal? Here’s how to get one
Two champions of literature, The Australian and HarperCollins Australia, join forces to launch a major new annual literary prize for Australian storytelling.
Respect for Charmian has been a long time coming
If Charmian Clift had received recognition of her literary talents, she might not have died by her own hand, and may have lived to enjoy the status that was instead bestowed upon her husband.
Tragic Clift deserves career’s new dawn
Charmian Clift’s unfinished novel, The End of the Morning, proves she was as good as her feted husband — the difference was he had the space, time and grant money.
Australian writers take a bold stand for young Evan
Australian writers pen heartfelt letters to a young Wall Street Journal reporter trapped behind bars in Russia.
Harvard removes book binding made from woman’s skin
The university apologised over the 19th-century book held in it’s library after a campaign calling for the psychiatric patient’s remains to be interred in France.
How this photograph helped these children
Shira Sebban saw this photo of four terrified Vietnamese children in The Australian and decided she had to act. Now they are finally safe, she can reveal their fate.
Did Harry Houdini really disturb a body in the Yarra River?
Alan Attwood examines some of the stranger claims made by Harry Houdini during his tour of Victoria in 1910.
Bruce Pascoe’s solution to the Indigenous aimlessness crisis
Marcia Langton warns that many of our people aren’t work ready and it’s true. The solution? Food.
Writing through the memories
Literary editor Caroline Overington on a mother’s tribute to her son, the Sydney Writers Festival, and who is Australia’s busiest writer?
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