A cyber attack on one of Australia's major publishing distributors has left independent bookstores and authors struggling to meet customer demand.

University’s move is part of trend that critics within academia say will lead to further staff cuts and the loss of ‘everything that makes the job worth doing’

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’

A poet and environmental activist experiences a fever dream of Tasmania’s landscape and mining history in Adam Ouston’s brilliantly imagined novel

Ultra-runner Sophie Woods runs 2,000km across eight countries in only 29 days to break the record for completing the Via Alpina - one of the world's toughest endurance challenges.

A poet and environmental activist experiences a fever dream of Tasmania’s landscape and mining history in Adam Ouston’s brilliantly imagined novel

Local writers are refusing to give up on creatively fulfilling lives.

Václav Havel’s The Memorandum and Tom Stoppard’s Cahoot’s Macbeth are both comedies set in Czechoslovakia about authoritarian attempts to control the use of language. Surprisingly, it is Havel, writing within a Soviet-aligned, Communist-run state, who ...

The West End’s Duke of York’s Theatre is to be renamed in honour of playwright Tom Stoppard

YouTube video by National Theatre

A History of the World in 10½ Chapters by Julian Barnes.

Amanda Lohrey’s Capture takes place in weird shiny rooms, where humans are studied with curiosity and partial incomprehension.

The problems with Britain’s universities are systemic and deep-rooted, not just local or contingent. Yet political and...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is changing how universities operate, from marking and HR systems to student support and teaching tools.

The Royal Court is presenting the Slow Horses star’s version of one Beckett masterpiece alongside 19-year-old Leo Simpe-Asante’s riff on another. They combine beautifully

Dr Ashley Hay has been appointed as Establishing Editor of Meanjin, as the journal begins a new chapter.

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