With the Sydney Writers’ Festival kicking off next week,we pulled together our picks of the festival,including international authors like Colson Whitehead and local favourites such as Helen Garner.
These two poetry collections have two ordinary lives as their scaffolding.
The broadcaster’s response to the death of the Queen is subtle and passionate.
On his way to Australia,poet and musician Anthony Joseph is out to move us - to tears and to protest.
The winners have delivered three clever,ambitious - and very different - books.
Jenny Odell,author of How to Do Nothing and Saving Time,pens a personal letter to the future.
In her latest novel Nguyen Phan Que Mai looks at the fate of children born to Vietnamese mothers and American military fathers.
Anam is a search for a way to honour the author’s grandfather’s story
Prize-winning author Bernardine Evaristo has 30 minutes to spare,but plenty of advice for life and writing:work hard and don’t stay in your lane,because why would you want to write only from your own demographic?
Peter Frankopan charts how natural events have shaped history and how our species has come to act on a planetary scale.
Nicole Flattery’s enigmatic novel Nothing Special leads our wrap of reviews of recent fiction and non-fiction releases.