From page to screen
Adapting a novel to film is a process beset with hurdles that are sometimes insurmountable.
Books
Riding the rollercoaster
Black Dog founder Gordon Parker, who has devoted his life to mental health, has written a psychological thriller.
Why Game of Thrones rules
Game of Thrones is back, tackling the “great moral questions’’ of the world | Plus take the toughest GoT quiz ever.
New world of lit video-gaming
Walden is the kind of game in which speed is decidedly not of the essence.
Peaceable call to arms
American critical theorist Sarah Sentilles assembles the case for art as a weapon against weapons.
What did you do in the war?
Sheila Fitzpatrick’s extensive contribution to the history of Soviet Russia well deserves the acclaim it has received.
Heysen in perspective, by gum
As Lou Klepac illustrates in this biography, Hans Heysen beautifully captured Australiana.
The biblio files
A five-volume account of Australian book collectors is a national history of the most heart-warming kind.
Greed triggers reign of terror
Osage Nation members were pushed out of their homelands and dumped in Oklahoma. Then prospectors found the oil.
Dystopian times at world’s end
Writers James Bradley and Daniel Findlay have boosted Australia’s reputation as a locale for world’s-end fiction.
A long goodbye in playful verse
Brian Castro has been a great innovator in Australian fiction for decades.
A talent for the finest fakery
Shaun Greenhalgh, one of the world’s greatest art forgers, is a talented craftsman with a rich knowledge of art.
The tomes we leave behind
We live with books, books live with us, but only one half of this relationship can live forever.
Journey back to Wilbur Smith
I finally did something this week I’d been meaning to do for a while: re-read a writer who led me to adult literature.
As told in dispatches
BBC world affairs editor John Simpson chronicles the lives of his journalistic heroes.
Diary of partner in public life
Anna Cowen’s My Vice-Regal Life provides a rare glimpse into a challenging time in Australia’s history.
Lacerating edge in complex verse
WA poet Fay Zwicky has died, aged 83.
Clues point to 221B Baker St
An exhibition at the Sydney Powerhouse Museum delves deep into the mystique of Conan Doyle’s iconic sleuth.
Poet Zwicky’s last word at 83
The internationally acclaimed poet Fay Zwicky has died in Perth aged 83.
Vignettes and fragments
David Sedaris gives artfully drawn comic vignettes and scavenged fragments in Theft by Finding.
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