An interview with Merve Emre

An interview with Merve Emre

An interview with Merve Emre

Thirty years on, Clueless director Amy Heckerling looks back at remodelling Jane Austen in modern Beverly Hills, her struggles to get a foothold in the film industry, and why she’s nothing like the bu...

Criticism should offer more than a cut-throat execution.

On pro-Israel pressure campaigns and Australia’s cultural organisations

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One way to understand the dilemma of contemporary American literature in the age of Donald Trump is to see it as an imperial literature. The United States is a different kind of empire, exerting gl…

A tragic accident forced me to reckon with the father-shaped hole in my life.

At turns entertaining and bemusing, rewatching ABC TV’s book show highlights a scarcity of televised arts criticism.

The baby’s parents and brother were killed in an overnight Israeli airstrike that levelled their home

Japanese and Korean literature is booming and Western publishers are cashing in.

The 'Signs of Damage' author shares her writing routine.

In this episode, Tenille chats with essayist and critic Cher Tan about her book Peripathetic, what makes a great book review, the impact of the internet on writing and culture, and producing art in...

Creative Australia’s troubling decision signals an authoritarian turn we can’t ignore.

Creative Australia’s troubling decision signals an authoritarian turn we can’t ignore.

An interview with the director of the Melbourne City of Literature office.

The government was informed of a glitch that caused more than a thousand people to be cut off from welfare payments but ignored it for more than three years because halting it would harm private provi...

Federal court file indicates Buttrose, Anderson and ABC chief content officer communicated on 19 December before Lattouf was taken off air on 20 December

Penguin Random House's acquisition of Text Publishing leaves Australian publishing further concentrated in the hands of a few multinational companies.

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Mx Sly: In Melbourne’s queer dating scene, I face the pitfalls of trying to integrate all of one’s sexual connections into a cohesive social experience.