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In The Not Returning Part of It, Malcolm observes that ‘those who have been lied to are especially prone to compulsive truth-telling’.
At the 2012 Crime and Justice Festival in Melbourne, Rochelle Jackson asked crime writer Ian Rankin what his detective character Inspector John Rebus would think of him.
‘I don’t think he’d like me,’ Rankin said. ‘He’d think I was too much of a liberal.
After 19 years on death row, Damien Echols is starting to build a life in Salem, Massachusetts.
New research tells us that reading for pleasure as a teen is the most important indicator for future success—so how do you instil a love of reading?
Watch a video interview with Romy Ash, whose debut novel, Floundering, is on the Miles Franklin Literary Award shortlist.
What writers can learn from rock stars.
It’s like throwing a Lolita-themed children’s birthday party. Read more
Forty-One False Starts is a brilliant collection of essays from one of the world’s great writers of literary non-fiction.
What makes The Great Gatsby so great, anyway?
This Chemical Life: Auden, Sartre, Greene and other great writers who loved uppers.
For St John, words were about keeping the darkness at bay. Trinca treats this aspect of the life with great acuity. Lucy Sussex on Helen Trinca’s Madeleine: A Life of Madeleine St John in the Sydney Review of Books.
Stephen King was right. Books are ‘portable magic’.
