1+ day, 23+ hour ago   (241+ words) September 11, 2026 — 11:11am The world chronicled in Max Easton’s Now, Autonomy is both familiar and foreign. Set in Sydney’s inner west, the novel is peppered with local landmarks and place names: Newtown, Homebush, Parramatta Road, Central Station, Hyde Park, the QVB, the…...

2+ day, 6+ hour ago   (453+ words) The noir label has been tenuously attached to all manner of crime fiction of late. But rather than being identified by a landscape (think rural or outback noir), or geography (Nordic noir), or even a setting (domestic noir), the real…...

3+ day, 21+ hour ago   (1190+ words) September 9, 2026 — 1:58pm She wrote Australia’s best-selling political biography, won glittering prizes, had a novel made into film and was portrayed in a television soap opera, but her most public role was playing the woman who waited for the man she loved....

6+ day, 9+ hour ago   (156+ words) The Washington Post Valerie Stivers is a senior editor for UnHerd, from which this article was adapted. The actress Natalie Portman has always seemed like a person who wants to brand herself as smart and bookish — a trait that appears…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (422+ words) September 3, 2026 — 4:00pm Thanks to Netflix, yet another Pride and Prejudice adaptation is coming our way. Bonnets and Bennets will again infect the zeitgeist, not that we had a real break. We live in a wretched state of perma-Austen. Breaks are hallucinations…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (63+ words) smh.com.au September marks the start of the bumper Christmas season, when publishers release a huge crop of books from big names and small. Here are 18 of the many new titles out this month, with loads more to look…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (56+ words) The Mercury Vote now: Help us crown your South Aussie Book Week star The Book Week parades have been walked and now it’s time to decide who deserve best costume award. Meet your 50 finalists and vote now. All your news…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (586+ words) August 30, 2026 — 5:15pm Family history and a dark revelation shape West Australian author Tess Woods’ fifth book – and that was just in the writing process. Woods takes readers back to her Egyptian roots and to the foot of the famous pyramids in…...

2+ week, 6+ hour ago   (1113+ words) August 30, 2026 — 5:00am Works of fiction often come with a legal boilerplate disclaimer inside the front cover: “any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental”. Not so the latest novel by Rachel Cusk, the Anglo-American author who reinvented autofiction…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (225+ words) August 28, 2026 — 11:00am Reading Rachel Cusk’s Life of M is a destabilising experience. The pages shadow you; the strange discomfort of their atmosphere lingers – as intended, surely, as most specifically intended. This is Cusk, after all, and her writing is no one’s…...