What hope is there for university staff when, a terminally ill academic writes, her workplace is more harmful than her cancer?

Ouston’s second novel follows a poet who is trapped in an abandoned mine in Tasmania while searching for inspiration for his ‘last great work’

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The most authentic thing about Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey is its densely braided narrative, but its tormented hero sounds like the heroes of Christopher Nolan movies.

On bears; feral women and weird fiction; novels about grief and the climate crisis; and too many books.

A mother and son scavenge and pillage in a violent post-apocalyptic world, in the poet and short story writer’s tense and engrossing debut

In the space of a week, two major musicals, Waitress and Beetlejuice, and a $20m opera were forced to cancel shows amid skyrocketing costs, putting hundreds out of work

Thanks to rushed deadlines, financial pressure and overworked staff, titles are going to market before they’re ready – and then sliding from view immediately

An Australian takeover is unfolding in British Columbia as fans pour in for the World Cup, joining the thousands of snow-obsessed expats who live there

The stuck narrator records the minutiae of the forest and her harrowing life in a purposeful novel that demands a slow read but doesn’t always reward it

A recent article on Australian literature’s ‘moral hygiene’ finds familiar scapegoats for publishing's problems.

The Miles Franklin winner’s plot teeters on the edge of profound silliness, but it’s also a vehicle for making meaning of our lived experiences – and those of others

A countdown of the greatest literature ever published in English, as voted for by authors, critics and academics worldwide. How many have you read?

Heyman’s story about women struggling to put aside their hurts and do right by one another is all about rage, vulnerability, forgiveness and a bit of woo-woo

Kate Holden made a striking début with her 2005 memoir of addiction and sex work. In My Skin was both a critical and commercial success; in it, readers encountered a frank, opulent stylist possessed of a remarkably compassionate point of view. In My Skin pre-empted the boom in life writing by women that has been a fixture of Australian literature this century. If the tropes of recovery lit are more familiar now than they were in 2005, the brisk confidence of Holden’s voice and the curiosity of her gaze remain impressive. Holden refined and hybridised her approach in her next book, The Romantic (2010), a memoir that incorporated travel writing and literary criticism. These early works won Holden a devoted readership and she continued to publish new material as a columnist and cultural journalist over the next decade.

The author confronts the trauma of losing her parents as a teenager in a succession of fragments – almost all of which contain the word ‘fourteen’

The author confronts the trauma of losing her parents as a teenager in a succession of fragments – almost all of which contain the word ‘fourteen’

Fingers crossed for editorial independence: Meanjin, LARB, Michael Silverblatt

Fingers crossed for editorial independence: Meanjin, LARB, Michael Silverblatt

Cancel culture strikes again? Adelaide Writers' Week, risk management, and our de facto national cultural policy settings

The Venezuelan opposition leader did not confirm whether the US president accepted the award

On the books we don't need about Bondi

On the books we don't need about Bondi

How do Australian writers find an overseas readership? Reviewing the highly acclaimed Stone Yard Devotional, Catriona Menzies-Pike surveys the critical oversights and abstractions that allow stories f...