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George Saunders has described short stories as ‘thrill-producing machines’, but his latest collection is hit and miss.
With its lovingly rendered characters and sharp aphoristic prose, Sweeney and the Bicycles is a study in radical self-absorption.
Ian McEwan has forged his own genre – crisply realist surfaces mixed with sudden excursions into the darkest corridors of the mind. In Lessons, the central character reveals a writerly consciousness.
Nights of Plague is set on a fictional island in the early 20th century. Is it an allegory of empire’s fall; a contemplation on corruption and East-West tension or a reflection on pandemic life?
In this tender, thought-provoking novel, an award-winning writer explores the ambivalence that often attends female friendship.
A panoramic tale and an in-depth character study, Iris immerses its readers in a world of impoverishment and struggle.
Elizabeth Strout’s novel Oh William! has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Her follow up book takes us inside the head of a small, loving, anxious, slightly neurotic person during lockdown.
Shaun Prescott’s second novel is a gothic tale of skin-crawling, psychological dysfunction.
Norman Daly’s 1972 exhibition, ‘The Civilization of Llhuros,’ presented fiction as fact – and reminded viewers of just how easily they could be duped.
Four different authors – Sarah Moss, Roddy Doyle, Anne Tyler and Gary Shteyngart – tell four different stories of life in a time of COVID.
The Gothic horrorshow of Ottessa Moshfegh’s latest novel has sharply divided critical opinion.
This Book Week, don’t stress about the costume and don’t worry about what the other mums or dads are sewing or buying. Costumes are fun but what matters is to let your kid read what they enjoy.
Jay Carmichael’s novel explores how Australian same-sex attracted men lived during the repressive period after the end of the second world war. But does it impose present concerns on the past?
When Stephanie Trigg was a young reader, The Gentle Falcon, set in 1396, introduced her to the beauty and danger of the medieval world.
Ken Cameron’s film of Helen Garner’s Monkey Grip is dark, yearning, weird – and incredibly sexy – writes Ronnie Scott.
Bodies of Light is brutally precise in its portrayal of the enduring consequences of a traumatic childhood.
Shades of classic literature are discernible in The Diplomat, a novel that delves into the disreputable worlds of art and drug addiction.
Two new books examine the life and legacy of an inspiring poet whose work resisted patriarchal constraints.
Persuasion is a distinctly romantic modern comedy in tone – but how much does historical accuracy matter?
Top contributors
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Executive Dean (interim) Faculty of Arts and Design, University of Canberra
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Professor of English Literature, University of Southern Queensland
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Professor of English, Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences, ACU, Australian Catholic University
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Dean of Research (Creative), University of South Australia
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Senior Lecturer, Writing, Department of Media and Communication, Swinburne University of Technology
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Lecturer, Creative Writing, University of Adelaide
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Adjunct Lecturer, English and Creative Writing, UNSW Canberra, UNSW Sydney
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IT Service Desk Coordinator, Swansea University
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Associate Professor in Creative Writing, School of Culture & Communication, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor in Literary Studies, RMIT University
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Professor of History, University of Warwick
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Tutor in Publishing, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Associate Professor, Griffith University
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Associate Editor, The Letters of Ernest Hemingway and Assistant Research Professor of English, Penn State
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Senior Lecturer — Writing, Editing, Publishing, University of Southern Queensland
