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The power of words drives change at the Sydney Writers' Festival
Sydney Writers' Festival opens at Carriageworks with a call to find new ways of storytelling.
- by Linda Morris
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New ways of storytelling needed to challenge unfairness
Sydney Writers' Festival opens with call to fight conventional power.
- by Linda Morris
Sydney Writers' Festival
Russia helped Brexit says Boris Johnson's author dad
British author finds intrigue close to home.
- by Linda Morris
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Stories of ancestral memory storm NSW Premier's Literary Awards
Two virtuoso novels, each exploring the shadows of history, have swept the NSW Premier's Literary Awards.
- by Linda Morris
Arts
Weird requests put to punk poet Eileen Myles
Writing a memoir about her relationship with a dog has prompted some bizarre book dedications, author Eileen Myles says.
- by Linda Morris
Sydney Writers' Festival
Sydney Writers' Festival highlights
The Sydney Writer's Festival opens Tuesday. Here's a taste of what to see.
- by Linda Morris
Sydney Writers' Festival
Call Me By Your Name writer Andre Aciman on the wine of life
Andre Aciman found himself thrust unexpectedly into the role of agony aunt after the film adaptation of his novel Call Me By Your Name was released last year.
- by Melanie Kembrey
Sydney Writers' Festival
Books That Changed Me: Sharlene Teo
Sharlene Teo rereads James Salter's beautiful Light Years to see how poetic and transcendent a novel can be.
Top 10 books in business
Scott Pape tops the business bestselling charts this week with The Barefoot Investor.
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Read: The novel that had me rethinking a common parenting choice
Entrusting your child to someone else is a giant leap of faith. That's why this book is sending shivers up the spines of parents all over the world.
- by Nicole Abadee
Sydney Writers' Festival
Home is where the smells are
Though I didn't think much of it at the time, my mother was right about the smells. It is well documented that our senses can cause an involuntary flooding of memory.
- by Sofija Stefanovic