Kathryn Crowcroft's debut book, Tongue, is published this week and explores how the tongue has been cast as both sacred and sinful across centuries

Art Mania: Geoffrey Bardon and the Painting Men of Papunya is the first biography of a man who effectively invented the origin story of Aboriginal painting.

Audition by Pip Adam has been shortlisted for the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction 2026. The prize is given to a writer for a single work of imaginative fiction.

Dionne Brand says of Giada Scodellaro debut novel, winner of the prestigious Novel Prize: “Ruins, Child takes us to the crumbling architecture of a future past; a future past that is possibly now. In ...

Helle Helle’s novella they opens with a teenage girl carrying a heavy cauliflower across a field. Handling the creamy florets like a bouquet, she is taking it home to her single mother, who wishes to ...

Australiens mest kända författare, Alexis Wright, brukar ofta nämnas när det ska tippas Nobelpristagare. Wright tillhör Waanyifolket och är en stark förespråkare för aboriginernas rättigheter. Den sen...

To read Ender Başkan’s debut poetry collection, Two Hundred Million Musketeers, is to perceive across generations. Purling in streams of braided narrative – 96 pages without a stanza break – it flows ...

An anthology of essays from Melbourne’s The Paris End showcases personal yet serious reportage and a delight in the weird.

When was poetry turned on its head? Was it with T.S. Eliot and his nemesis, William Carlos Williams? Or perhaps it was the slow burn from Emily Dickinson. Was it with Walt Whitman that everything chan...

The Australian novelist on imaginary horse racing, the meaning of true fiction, and why Tolstoy should have been arrested for War and Peace

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