Number 3 chiller
Watch a video chat between Ramona Koval and Elizabeth Harrower, and read Ramona’s reading notes for The Watch Tower and The Long Prospect over at the Monthly.
Why so few women in the London Review of Books?
Big data meets the Bard: how the digital humanities offer us different ways to ‘read’ a text.
The literary origins of Kim Kardashian/Kanye West’s baby’s name.
Janet Malcolm is one of the great recorders of la vie quotidienne of Manhattan: Forty-One False Starts reviewed in the Sydney Morning Herald.
Why do all these books have pictures of women’s backs on the cover?
A teacher and her student: a conversation with Marilynne Robinson.
What’s so wrong about giving up on a book? Nothing, says Oliver Burkeman, as long as you do it right.
This Stilton-like blue is a mix of narratives—the Mrs Dalloway of cheeses, if you will. 10 cheeses and their literary counterparts.
22 books that need to be written. Someone please write Enough Foucault, Let’s Disco now so I can read it.
This is a harrowing novel, relentless in its depiction of marital enslavement, spiritual self-destruction and the exploited condition of women in a masculinist society…It is a brilliant achievement. Michael Dirda in the Washington Post on Elizabeth Harrower’s The Watch Tower.
Frame’s delicious satire here is reminiscent of Jane Austen.
Felicity Plunkett on Janet Frame’s In the Memorial Room in the Sydney Review of Books.
How typeface influences the way we read and think (and why everyone hates Comic Sans MS).
To some of us, Romy Ash might be in familiar west coast territory with her first novel, Floundering, but her unsentimental, suspenseful and strangely elegant story is as powerful as its backdrop is instantly recognisable. Robert Drewe’s rave review for Floundering in the Read more
Congratulations to Romy Ash and Vikki Wakefield, both shortlisted in the 2013 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards!
Romy Ash is on the shortlist for fiction for her debut novel, Floundering. Vikki Wakefield has been shortlisted in the young adult fiction category for Read more
Famous authors' funniest inscriptions in their books.
25 signs you’re addicted to books. (#13 is a perennial problem for me.)
Jack Kerouac was a mummy’s boy, or, five authors who do not live up to their mythology.
