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GREG Bellow’s memoir of his father, novelist Saul Bellow, is balanced, sympathetic, thoughtful and often curiously dull.

AMINATTA Forna’s deeply felt and coolly self-contained third novel, The Hired Man, tackles the horror of the Balkan conflict with restraint.

ONE judge explains why no award has been made this year.

A DOCUMENTARY based on letters between poet Judith Wright and influential economist Nugget Coombs charts their enduringql later-life love affair.

IN March 1937, Sylvia Beach, owner of the legendary Parisian bookshop Shakespeare and Company, wrote a letter on behalf of a young Australian author.

JAMES Salter is one of the last of the generation of giants in post-war American literature who can be recalled by their last names alone.

ASHLEY Hay’s new novel makes drama from a painful paradox that arises in grief.

SICILIAN sculptor Gaetano Zummo was a 17th-century Gunther von Hagens. His medium was wax.

A WORK written almost 30 years ago by an under-appreciated author is Australia’s great political novel.

JM Coetzee’s new novel is simply told but follows Vladimir Nabokov in presenting us with a world at once familiar and strange.