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Onomatopoeia for the eyes. For the eyes!
9 commonly used words with surprisingly unsavoury histories. I think we should all start saying ‘gentleman cow’.
Placing Literature maps book scenes in the real world.
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Listen to a great review of Charlie Lovett’s The Bookman’s Tale: A Novel of Obsession on Radio NZ.
Revising your writing again? Blame the Modernists.
Hardly one copy would sell here. Hardly one. Hardly one. Gertrude Stein is rejected.
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And so it is that this immensely gifted Chinese writer performs his poetic acts of mourning for the entertainment of audiences in Berlin and New York—an exotic “dissident” abroad, his voice to be heard everywhere except where it is most needed. Read more
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.
