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

Connecting the cerebral and the visceral was one of Saul Bellow’s abiding concerns, as a new biography reminds us.

Don Anderson

The connection between Etgar Keret’s short stories and these nonfiction pieces can be seen in their brevity.

Mark Mordue

It’s James Dean but not as you know him. These photos capture the actor unguarded and unglamorous on his home turf.

A scholarly work uses the life of Mary Bennett, an early crusader for indigenous rights, to reflect on race relations.

Anna Heyward

The Hogarth Shakespeare project involves well-known writers turning the Bard’s plays into novels.

A PAIR OF RAGGED CLAWS: STEPHEN ROMEI

Pulitzer prize-winning poet Tracy K. Smith’s memoir begins where language collapses under the pressure of mourning.

Felicity Plunkett

Michael Robotham, Tony Cavanaugh and Peter Doyle live up to their reputation as fine Australian crime writers.

Crime file: Graeme Blundell

Hobart’s convict hangman was the last person to look into the eyes of more than 200 men and women.

Ross Fitzgerald

The Hogarth Shakespeare project involves well-known writers turning the Bard’s plays into novels.

A PAIR OF RAGGED CLAWS: STEPHEN ROMEI

In The White Road, Edmund de Waal delves poetically further into his love affair with porcelain.

Miriam Cosic