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Stephen Romei writes on books and films. He was formerly literary editor at The Australian and The Weekend Australian.

There was an undeniable sense of “about time’’ when author Joan London won the $30,000 Kibble Award yesterday.

Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman has claims to being a more complete and satisfying work than its little sister.

In a work of superlative detection, Gideon Haigh has revisited a murder that gripped 1950s Australia.

Peter Craven

When writers were asked to name their favourite words, they offered up some interesting responses.

A PAIR OF RAGGED CLAWS: STEPHEN ROMEI

In Interviews with New Left Review, Raymond Williams’s socialism is shown to be full of conflict and qualification.

When writers were asked to name their favourite words, they offered up some interesting responses.

A PAIR OF RAGGED CLAWS: STEPHEN ROMEI

Alexandra Roginski tells the grim tale of an executed Aboriginal man whose skull was displayed on lecture tours.

Tom Gilling

Women He’s Undressed, the documentary on costume designer Orry-Kelly, could change the way you see films.

In Archipelago of Souls, Gregory Day interweaves past and present in tales of insular and often brutal struggle.

Peter Pierce

Two popular crime-novel protagonists have returned, and we are introduced to a newcomer, in three recent releases.

crime file: graeme blundell