Our copyright laws are holding us back, and there's a way out
Imagine a land in which everything was outlawed, except for the things that were specifically allowed. Things would more-or-less work, until you tried something new.
Imagine a land in which everything was outlawed, except for the things that were specifically allowed. Things would more-or-less work, until you tried something new.
Shirley Hazzard was one of the most cosmopolitan, elegant and quietly formidable writers of the 20th century, claimed by Australians and New Yorkers – and some Italians – as one of their own. Born in Sydney, a US citizen since the 1970s, she died at the age of 85 in her Manhattan apartment on Monday night.
The novelist Georgia Blain died last week. Fellow novelist James Bradley pays a tribute to a true friend and a woman possessed of a black sense of humour.
The 2004 Miles Franklin Award winner worked for the United Nations in Italy before moving to a critically acclaimed career in writing.
A published book for any first-time author is a bright and shiny thing.
Michelle Cahill, author of four poetry collections so far, has now produced a sizeable short story collection.
The queen of the ghost stories unleashes her eerie imagination.
Looking for a summer read or a Christmas gift? Here's your guide to the best books of 2016
Local writers nominate their top reads for this year.
The records of the early years of the British colony of NSW are a litany of complaints about alcohol.
George Gittoes has spent his career documenting the horrors God's creatures inflict on each other.
Taken as a whole, Barry Maitland's Belltree trilogy constitute an extended commentary on some of the more pressing moral issues facing Australia.
As always, the books I still want to read from this year far outnumber those I have read.
Literary news and events in Canberra.
The magic of J.K. Rowling has kept her at the top of the charts in Australian independent bookshops.
Sometimes the next best thing to gardening is reading about it. Here's a look at the best new books to cool off with over summer.
The Melbourne memoirist, poet and now children's author Maxine Beneba Clarke has racked up two shortlistings in the VPL awards.
What Blonde Ambition: Roxy Jacenko Unfiltered most effectively conveys is the bizarre, surreal nature of celebrity life.
Paddy Roe's Gularabulu represents an important milestone in Australian literature and a bridge between Aboriginal oral culture and non-Indigenous readers.
The success of Bernie Sanders in the run-in to the US Presidential election provided a great ''what-if'' moment.
Laura Woollett explores the darkest corners of the human heart in The Love of a Bad Man.
This updated translation of French decadents from the 19th and early 20th centuries includes subversive fairytales from the likes of Baudelaire, Anatole France, and Apollinaire.
On average seven children and teens are shot dead each day in the US. Unlike mass shootings, the individual killings rarely rate the news.
Laura Miller's book includes a wide range of contributors discussing the lands that so many different authors have created over hundreds of years.
By ALEXANDRA ALTER
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