Books & arts
4 July 2012
Richard Johnstone reviews William Maxwell’s The Château
Books & arts
4 June 2012
Richard Johnstone reviews Frederic Manning’s extraordinary account of the foot soldiers of the first world war
Books & arts
1 May 2012
Impossibly remote in many ways, the late fifties are portrayed with verve and nuance in John O’Grady’s bestselling novel, writes Brian McFarlane
Essays & reportage
13 April 2012
Although she undoubtedly drew on her own life, Virginia Woolf’s modernist novels are not essays about herself
Books & arts
7 March 2012
Richard Johnstone reviews Kirsten Tranter’s A Common Loss
Essays & reportage
16 February 2012
Extract | Visiting Alice Springs opens up other journeys captured on film and in prose and poetry
Books & arts
1 February 2012
Richard Johnstone reviews Matías Néspolo’s Seven Ways to Kill a Cat
Books & arts
18 January 2012
Brian McFarlane reviews a huge collection of the correspondence of the very prolific P.G. Wodehouse
Books & arts
8 December 2011
Charles Dickens turns 200 in February. Richard Johnstone looks at a life that might have turned on the placement of an inkstand
Books & arts
2 December 2011
Richard Johnstone’s paperback of the month, The Registrar’s Manual for Detecting Forced Marriages
From the archive
20 October 2011
A bestselling author in the early thirties, Irmgard Keun left Nazi Germany in 1936 only to return during the war
Books & arts
5 October 2011
Susan K. Martin and Kylie Mirmohamadi look at a sub-genre of popular writing that spanned the globe from London to Melbourne
Books & arts
22 August 2011
On its fiftieth anniversary Brian McFarlane rereads Joseph Heller’s classic anti-war novel
Books & arts
16 August 2011
Linda Jaivin reviews the Chinese-language edition of Chan Koonchung’s controversial novel The Fat Years, now available in English
Books & arts
28 June 2011
Christopher Snedden reviews two books – a memoir and a novel – about the conflict in Kashmir
Books & arts
14 June 2011
Brian McFarlane reviews a new collection of critical essays about contemporary novels
Books & arts
2 June 2011
Richard Johnstone considers the art of screen adaptation – with and without a literary source
From the archive
16 May 2011
Does Jane Austen teach us how to live?
Books & arts
27 January 2011
Brian McFarlane reviews a novel by an Australian, set in Britain and first published in India
Books & arts
19 October 2010
Glenn Nicholls reviews the German-language edition of Herta Müller’s latest novel, Everything I Possess I Carry with Me
Books & arts
6 October 2010
Terry Lane reads a few new novels, and a pile of old ones, on his brand new Kindle, and discovers that it’s not always the same experience
Books & arts
16 September 2010
Maria Edgeworth’s last novel shows the influence of Jane Austen but also foreshadows Elizabeth Gaskell’s broader social range, writes Brian McFarlane
Podcasts
2 December 2009
Chrissy Sharp and Michael Williams talk to Peter Clarke about Melbourne’s new literary hub, the Wheeler Centre
Books & arts
17 June 2009
The Slap captures contemporary Australian life? Andrew Lynch isn’t so sure
Books & arts
15 June 2009
Peter Craven reviews Colm Tóibín’s Brooklyn
Books & arts
9 June 2009
It hasn’t happened yet, but Nineteen Eighty-Four has enough threads of prescience to keep us alert, writes Brian McFarlane
Books & arts
4 May 2009
No matter how bad the adaptation or how silly the praise, Jane Austen’s novels contain some of the truest insights into human behaviour ever committed to the page, writes…
Books & arts
20 April 2009
David Malouf’s Trojan tale soars then sinks, writes Glenn Nicholls
Books & arts
3 February 2009
Judith Armstrong reviews Irène Némirovsky’s novel about a terrorist and his target
Books & arts
5 January 2009
Just below the surface is another, less orderly world, writes Dennis Altman