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(He will have to make his own way to “Bluey.”) To be sure, Australian children read many of the same picture books that are treasured elsewhere in the world, like Eric Carle’s “The Very ...
A revealing memoir from one of Australia's most beloved authors and an exciting debut about a literary fraudster in the ...
It’s been two weeks since the embassy visit. Why hasn’t the book been through censor review yet? What book will it be? Oh ...
Voss (422 pp.)—Patrick White—Viking ($5). Patrick White is an intellectual Australian novelist who hates to write about intellectuals and loves to write about Australians. His thoughtful ...
But like many Australians, I was disappointed to see no Australian books on the list. Even those authors who’ve made a splash in the US literary scene this century – Helen Garner, Gerald ...
We all love a bargain, but what is the real cost of buying cheap books online or at a discount in department stores? In the past decade, the number of bookstores in Australia has more than halved ...
One notable case centres around Meta’s use of a database of pirated books, the Russian-based LibGen, to create its Llama AI engine. For Australian authors, the heart of the issue is that in the ...
Should those of us who care about Australian books and literature be alarmed by these latest acquisitions? Our small literary world tends to operate in a state of precarious equilibrium ...