This is the first biography of the extraordinary Arthur Russell, the enigmatic New York composer who ate music genres for breakfast, knew everyone who was anyone, and died sadly early.

Looking for the definitive Michael Jackson story? This isn't it. But Simon Crump's maelstrom of literary forms captures a strange kind of truth about celebrity culture.

Australian Book Review just polled its readers' favourite Australian novels, and we haven't read many of 'em. Are we philistines, or is it time to hunt Australia's literary lions rather than feed them?

It's reassuring that people still want to read. It's less reassuring that they're more than willing to head to the black book market, in digital or physical form, to get their fix.

Raj Patel's post-GFC economic tract isn't your usual fire-and-pitchfork literary lynching of bankers. And it isn't just a bunch of flowers for true representative democracy. To fix a problem, we must first understand it.

You've pretty much got to be a 'cat person' to get the most out of this comic sketchbook. But hey, 2.5 million fans on YouTube can't be wrong.

The Kindle will be available in Australia for the first time this Friday. While you might've hocked all your CDs the moment you put them on your iPod, we'd advise against any book-burning just yet.

He's written memoirs, screenplays, ficto-autobiography, creative non-fiction, and expanded another author's work. Never mind What Is The What – Eggers makes us ask, what is a novel?

On Remembrance Day, Arcade Publications convened a display of vintage chic to launch Madeleine Hamilton's book Our Girls: Aussie Pinups of the 40s and 50s.