The story rules
It’s the job of writers to ‘try on’ other identities.
Books
The ‘spies’ who never returned
Ian Townsend’s new book is a gripping yarn of espionage and war.
Authors advance
The Australian /Vogel’s Literary Award, established in 1980, has an impressive honours board.
Vogel shortlist long on talent
Many of the The Australian-Vogel Literary Award shortlisted manuscripts go on to be published as books.
The digital low-down
How technology works, why it is fasciniating to Luddites, and how to lift your game in the privacy and security stakes.
The digital low-down
How technology works, why it is fasciniating to Luddites, and how to lift your game in the privacy and security stakes.
Quentin ‘rattled can’ for pilot
It’s easy to forget how hard it was for women in the workplace in the 1970s. Dame Quentin Bryce remembers.
Art made author a better writer
Heather Rose last night won the $50,000 Stella Prize for her novel The Museum of Modern Love.
Heather Rose wins Stella Prize
Tasmanian writer wins the $50,000 prize for novel that uses a famous real artist to paint a portrait of love and loss.
Tangled branches, single trunk
In Protestants, Alex Ryrie writes with the affection of an insider and the judgment of a first-class historian.
Through a child’s glass darkly
The Starlings is a compelling piece of storytelling about a boy and his family in the context of sport and literature.
Love letter to the suburbs
Ashley Hay renders the small details of an undramatic, decent life with tenderness that is touching and compelling.
Music of another mind
Pablo Neruda’s ‘lost’ poems, scrawled on napkins and receipts, are worth the wait.
Tweaking capitalism
Utopias are all well in theory, it is said, but attempts to put them into practice are bound to end in disaster.
Old woman in the high tower
Fay Weldon’s Death of a She Devil is a defiant hurrah for grumpy old women.
Survivor’s saga
From the Wreck is based on the 1859 loss of the steamship Admella off the coast of South Australia.
Masterchef Street Food
If you’ve enjoyed street food in the past 24 hours you’re in good company.
Captive thriller
An erotic relationship reveals a darker, more terrifying side in Cate Shortland’s new film.
Cross purposes
The piece of wood on which Jesus was crucified has become a mark of condemnation and salvation.
Unreconstructed dinosaurs
In the 19th century French craniologist Gustave Le Bon set out to explain the ‘inferiority of women’s intelligence’.
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