‘It’s an incredibly varied donation. He clearly held on to his books, some of them are quite old,’ says bookshop worker

In partnership with the Copyright Agency Cultural Fund, the Sydney Review of Books  invites applications for the 2025 Emerging Critics Fellowship program.

As a small press launches dedicated to new male fiction, authors including Anne Enright and Nikesh Shukla ask if men are really being pushed out of publishing

After the terrifying onset of profound identity loss, finding a diagnosis took years. The verdict: a condition said to affect 2 per cent of the population.

Faust is best remembered as the founder of the Women’s Electoral Lobby. But there was much more to her than just that.

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Recent studies suggest we’ve fallen out of love with reading – but the more chaotic our times, the deeper is our need to slow down and read fiction

Residents of a small Michigan community stood side by side to help a local bookstore move 9,100 books — one by one — from its former site to a new location about a block away.

When adoption laws changed in Australia, we discovered her name: Charmian Clift. I felt instant recognition. This explained everything

One hundred years ago, a New York bookseller Gabriel Wells, committed a crime against history. He broke up the world’s greatest book, the Gutenberg Bible, and sold it off in individual pages, which he

It’s 1986, and ‘beautiful, radical ideas’ are in the air. A young woman arrives in Melbourne. In bohemian St Kilda she meets artists, activists, students—and Kit. In her seventh novel, Theory and Pra

Almost every country town across Australia has a Chinese restaurant. Why is that? And what role do they play in the story of immigration and multiculturalism, as well as the life and tastebuds of regi...