Amazon Studios
What can Tolkien’s lesser-known stories tell us about the world he created?
Heat poster.
Heat 2, the literary sequel to Michael Mann’s classic cops-and-robbers film, is weird. Would it stand alone as a novel? Possibly not. But reading it is an incredibly pleasurable experience.
Rawpixel/The Conversation
‘Everything is random,’ the Penguin Random House CEO recently told a US court, about how the publishing business works. It all seemed to be a gamble. But is that how it works in Australia?
Amazon Studios
The new series is part of the expansive world created by J.R.R Tolkien across several books, including The Lord of the Rings trilogy and The Hobbit.
Mick Tsikas/AAP
The former prime minister’s latest book calls on his party to be both liberal and conservative in order to survive.
ANC supporters show support for corruption accused and suspended party secretary general Ace Magashule outside court in Bleomfontein.
EFE-EPA/Conrad Bornman
To his credit, former South African president Thabo Mbeki set up anti-corruption institutions that survived his own efforts to erode them.
The Goddess Athena appearing to Odysseus to reveal the Island of Ithaca by Giuseppe Bottani.
Wikimedia
These books and poems give the women of the Odyssey a say and other new perspectives on the classic tale.
Image by Liz Whitter courtesy of Wits University Press
Wits University Press is one of only 15 active university publishers in Africa – crucial for scholarship about the continent.
Untitled design.
Rushdie’s books have inspired generations of readers and writers – and a recent attempt to kill him.
The author Salman Rushdie has been stabbed at a talk in New York in the US.
A. Astes/Alamy
Talk of the attack risks devolving into overly simplistic free speech debates.
Trinity Mirror/Mirrorpix/Alamy
Much of his work was imbued with a sense of the end, so it is fitting to look back at three of his best works to mark the illustrator’s passing
The Stephen Leacock Medal is one of the few prizes for literary humour.
(Stephen Leacock/Wikimedia Commons)
We need to value the recognition of great Canadian comic writing and ensure it’s judged equitably.
Yulia Grigoryeva/Shutterstock
A city of contrasts, these books represent the heart and the violence of this Italian city.
Christina @wocintechchat.com/Unsplash
Sensitivity readers are increasingly employed before a book is published, if the author is writing about cultures outside their lived experience. But what exactly do sensitivity readers do?
The Stepford Wives (1975)
IMBD
In his 1972 novel The Stepford Wives, Ira Levin powerfully dramatised women’s suburban alienation and men’s resistance to feminist change. Michelle Arrow traces its enduring influence.
IgorZh/Shutterstock
Open one of these to enjoy the romance of azure seas, cliff-clinging villages and herbal-scented gardens in this spectacular part of Italy’s coastline.
David Appleby/Sky UK
Since the second world war, changing ideas about how children should behave have made us fear independent and competent children.
The past decade has seen a flurry of young adult fiction written from a queer perspective.
Aurelie and Morgan David de Lossy / Getty Images
A scholar of queer literature takes a closer look at five books that are pushing the envelope on society’s understanding of LGBTQ life.
Lukasz Pajor/Shuttertsock
Books that will bring the beauty of Derbyshire’s rolling hills alive.
In an age of distraction, the desire to read faster and more efficiently is understandable.
eclipse_images/Getty Images
The claims made by the creators of the app – which highlights parts of words to supposedly enhance users’ reading abilities – are dubious.