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Congratulations to Murray Bail, Brenda Niall and Vikki Wakefield, shortlisted authors in the WA Premier’s Book Awards!
Murray Bail’s The Voyage has been shortlisted in the category for fiction; Brenda Niall’s Read more
‘Elizabeth Harrower’s tale of a cruel and oppressive marriage is a forgotten gem of Australian literature’, says Anita Sethi in the Guardian.
Where in the world do people read the most?
…And then things get a little weird. The story of Norm Macdonald’s Twitter book club.
15 books destroyed (GASP!) for art (phew).
The wedding photos of 16 authors in love. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle doesn’t look all that happy, actually.
7 women from literature who would make great drinking buddies.
Watch a video chat between Ramona Koval and Elizabeth Harrower, and read Ramona’s reading notes for The Watch Tower and The Long Prospect over at the Monthly.
Why so few women in the London Review of Books?
Big data meets the Bard: how the digital humanities offer us different ways to ‘read’ a text.
The literary origins of Kim Kardashian/Kanye West’s baby’s name.
Janet Malcolm is one of the great recorders of la vie quotidienne of Manhattan: Forty-One False Starts reviewed in the Sydney Morning Herald.
Why do all these books have pictures of women’s backs on the cover?
A teacher and her student: a conversation with Marilynne Robinson.
What’s so wrong about giving up on a book? Nothing, says Oliver Burkeman, as long as you do it right.
This Stilton-like blue is a mix of narratives—the Mrs Dalloway of cheeses, if you will. 10 cheeses and their literary counterparts.
22 books that need to be written. Someone please write Enough Foucault, Let’s Disco now so I can read it.
This is a harrowing novel, relentless in its depiction of marital enslavement, spiritual self-destruction and the exploited condition of women in a masculinist society…It is a brilliant achievement. Michael Dirda in the Washington Post on Elizabeth Harrower’s The Watch Tower.
Frame’s delicious satire here is reminiscent of Jane Austen.
Felicity Plunkett on Janet Frame’s In the Memorial Room in the Sydney Review of Books.
How typeface influences the way we read and think (and why everyone hates Comic Sans MS).
