Nancy Huston Undulates Her Way To A Bad Sex In Fiction Award
December 5, 2012 By
Transcontinentally-acclaimed author Nancy Huston snatches the 2012 Bad Sex In Fiction award for resplendent quivering, palpitating and triple-undulation.
RIP Blockbuster Novelist Bryce Courtenay
November 23, 2012 By
Australia’s master of the novel most-likely-to-crowd-Christmas-trees for more than two decades, Bryce Courtenay, has passed away.
Winning The Literary Prize Fight
June 29, 2012 By
Campbell Newman wielded his blade to cut down the Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards for populism and profit. Yet we suspect the cash-for-cultural-commentary gambit is only growing.
Literary Magazine Primer: n+1
March 29, 2012 By
Fresh New York writing outlet n+1 ably (but irregularly) blows the cobwebs out of the stuffy lit-mag genre. Here’s a cheat sheet for the anti-literary magazine literary magazine.
Review: Public Enemies by Michel Houellebecq and Bernard-Henri Lévy
February 26, 2012 By
Contentious French thinkers Michel Houellebecq and Bernard-Henri Lévy fight back-to-back against their critics, mediocrity, and those not learned enough to understand all the footnotes.
Review: Out of Oz by Gregory Maguire
January 30, 2012 By
While Gregory Maguire’s revisionist tales of Oz are witty, inventive and detailed, the dreary ending of his Wicked Years quadrilogy left us heavy-hearted.
We’re Taking The Australian Women Writers Challenge
January 12, 2012 By
When was the last time you read a book written by an Australian woman? We explain why this year, we’re promising to read – and review – more.
Words Of The Year 2011
January 9, 2012 By
The annual Words of the Year for 2011 (from across the world) include the obvious, the not so, and the downright WTF.
Review: Panic by David Marr
December 27, 2011 By
Much more than a double-dip of previous publications, veteran journalist David Marr has revised and recontextualised his essays to map an alarming tendency in Australian culture.
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