Writer Tony Birch reflects on how Miles Franklin Award-winner Kim Scott has intrigued and inspired him.
Our reviewers assess recent fiction and non-fiction publications.
The ABC journalist says we can’t blame Trump or social media for the quality – or lack of – in our national debate.
The Booker Prize-shortlisted author talks climate change,writing teenage characters and Judy Blume.
With the Melbourne Writers Festival kicking off today,here are some of the events that should not be missed.
This week’s Melbourne Writers Festival will hope to capture the same success as the Sorrento Writers Festival held last month.
Spare a thought for the authors who don’t look like their publishers in the middle-class literary world.
Viet Thanh Nguyen’s novel The Sympathizer won him a Pulitzer Prize and employs cinematic tropes,but that doesn’t stop him being a fierce critic of the Hollywood machine.
Andrew O’Hagan’s latest novel is a sprawling bit of social realism that exposes the inner workings of a society.
This year’s Melbourne Writers Festival unleashes the spirits of characters past and stories still to be told … here’s a taste of what’s to come.
In an unusual move,the Melbourne Writers Festival won’t allow the audience to stand up and ask questions at its sessions – and some festivalgoers are breathing a sigh of relief.