Fourteen of Jane Austen’s female characters – witty or ridiculous, selfish or avaricious – are presented in the astonishing show, Austen’s Women. But her graver, more nuanced creations and stern but comic moralism fail to materialise.
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This week’s Sydney Writers’ Festival not only celebrates the art of writing, but the art of reading. Of course, it is difficult not to worry that this might be because the art of reading – that is, deep…
“We need something by which to judge, by which to navigate our journey through the stars, which is to say our journey through time.” Ben Okri discusses his new novel The Age of Magic and our busy lives.
Evie Wyld will be a guest at this year’s Sydney Writers’ Festival. Here, she speaks with a passionate reader about the success of her award-winning book, All The Birds, Singing.
It’s been 21 years since the publication of Irvine Welsh’s groundbreaking and controversial novel, Trainspotting. Since then, it has been widely praised and criticised, rejected by a mainstream audience…
You would have to be naïve to believe that evil exists, right? If you were asked to come up with examples of evil villains, you might think of the Emperor from Star Wars, Lord Voldemort from Harry Potter…
on the shore we wait for the tide to turn in nights light it recedes and the fish are gone In Australia there are many different views about the historical and current role of Aboriginal people in the…
Spies were a glamour news item in Western (and Soviet) press in the 1960s; it was the age of Kim Philby, British spymaster-cum-Soviet spy, and the endless media hunt for the “fifth man” of the Cambridge…
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Associate Professor in Media, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Professor of History at the Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences, Australian Catholic University
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Associate Professor in Philosophy, University of Sydney
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PhD candidate in contemporary African literatures, UNSW Sydney
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Lecturer and researcher in Plant Humanities, UNSW Sydney
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Senior lecturer and head of the Creative Writing program, The University of Melbourne
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Artist in Residence, University of Sydney
