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The layers of meaning and reference, autobiographical elements, vivid and poetic language, characterisation and satire in Frame’s second posthumously published novel In the Memorial Room show again why she is one of New Zealand’s literary greats. The Read more
Everything in this novel is about opposites—life and death, love and hate, good and evil, yin and yang—but nothing is black and white. Natsuo Kirino’s The Goddess Chronicle reviewed at Three Percent.
Listen to A. J. Betts on Radio National’s Life Matters discussing her Text Prize–winning novel, Zac & Mia, and her heartbreaking experiences working with young people in an oncology ward.
Why do writers drink? Besides the usual reasons, I guess.
Guys, The Spare Room is an incredible novel. Nicole Cliffe loves Helen Garner.
Do you know what a ‘plewd’ is? How about a ‘quimp’ or a ‘grawlix’? The fascinating secret language of comic strips.
‘[A] remarkably funny, tender book’: Gabriel Roth’s The Unknowns reviewed in the New York Times.
The murky world of literary libel, or, maybe it’s not a great idea to ‘write out your feelings’ about certain people in fiction.
J. M. Coetzee, Gerald Murnane and the relation between the real and the ideal, in Sydney Review of Books.
Why is English spelling so bizarre?
From the Brontë sisters to J. K. Rowling, a potted history of pen names.
Truly novel bookstores from around the world.
Watch a funny video featuring the grossest words in the English language.
Nicholas Shakespeare’s literary guide to Australia includes Murray Bail’s The Voyage and Eucalyptus, and Patrick White’s Happy Valley.
The greatest American novel? 9 experts share their opinions.
The DOJ has won its ebook antitrust case, to Amazon’s advantage.
