Identity is a two-way mirror – what we project and what others perceive, but Indigenous people are constantly reminded that their identities are in question.

He's probably washing his hair that night.

Authors and illustrators fire up the imaginations of children.

A sunny new edition of Stasiland; why girls have taken over book titles.

Literary events and news in Canberra.

Computer mouses or computer mice? That's your classic quicksand question.

in Australia's long, ignominious history of bent coppers, there has been none as synonymous with crime as Roger Caleb Rogerson.

Thomas Shapcott's poem ponders how our bodies provide the limits to our wildest dreams and how as we age that constriction becomes so natural.

There have been many important reprint series of Australian literature but Text Classics is one of the best.

The latest Diary of a Wimpy Kid has gone straight to the top of the Australian bestseller list.

Another Brooklyn is an intense, painful, poetic book about what it means to grow up black and female in a white man's world.

With his marriage falling apart, Lee Zachariah heads back to Australia to cover the election campaign.

Central to this account of the Australian advertising industry is the revolution of the 1970s and the new generation of ceatives.

From the history of stink bombs to the lessons learned from military autopsies, Grunt mixes the quirky with the confronting.

This is an extreme case of a story that has become familiar from the testimonies of those at the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.

Actor Bryan Brown has gone back to his roots to back calls to establish the Western Sydney Centre for Writing.

Deng Thiak Adut, recently named NSW Australian of the Year, came to Australia as a refugee from Sudan. In an extract from his book, he describes arriving in Australia.

Virago, Spinifex Press and the Australian chapter of Sisters in Crime are all celebrating their staying power.

One of the characters in Fiona Higgins' new book says rather tartly, "I think a fair few Aussies consider it the ninth state of Australia." She is referring, of course, to Bali, the setting for Fearless.

Sheila Fitzpatrick, author of the award-winning memoir A Spy in the Archives, reveals the books that influenced her most.

The enduring problem with John le Carre and, indeed, this book lies in determining fiction from fact or embellishment from truth.

Christine Sneed is at her best when writing about families and couples, as with Beach Vacation, about a mother and son at odds, and the oddly bittersweet story The Couples Jubilee.

Martin Cruz Smith's novel reminiscent of both Catch-22 and Captain Corelli's Mandolin, though simpler and more cheerful than either.

Ernest van der Kwast's novel prompts the thought that we must by now have passed the peak of the quirky food-related novels.