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Books That Changed Me: Karen Foxlee
Karen Foxlee still remembers the imagery from Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping.
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How Toni Jordan turned to crime
Toni Jordan has written her previous novels in a variety of genres. Now she has written a literary thriller.
- by Thuy On
Indigenous
Anita Hess on advocating Indigenous literacy and men who have influenced her
Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia author Anita Hess on her career and what she knows about men.
- by Bernadette Clohesy
In short reviews: Picks of the week
Friday Black, The Wounded Sinner, The Boy at the Keyhole, Gloucester Crescent, Outspoken, Australian Crime Fiction and more.
The next feminist target? The draining impact of "invisible" emotional labour
How can we correct the imbalance in the invisible work that women do to keep lives functioning?
- by Gemma Hartley
Literary themed cookies: Food for thought at your book club
Author and blogger Lauren Chater has celebrated her favourite books by creating theme cookies.
- by Lauren Chater
Art
Boys should read 'girls' books to help end toxic male culture
Are representations of women running behind community thinking since the #MeToo Movement? The chief judge of a major Australian literary prize thinks so.
- by Linda Morris
Poets in action: How writers captured the horrors of the Great War
A generation of young men marched to war between 1914 and 1918. Poetry, unlike any time before or since, was the vehicle for their voices.
- by Warwick McFadyen
Robert Graves review: Jean Moorcroft Wilson's life of the war poet and novelist
The prevailing image of the war poets is one of early death, with promise unfulfilled. Robert Graves had a quite different fate.
- by Brenda Niall
The Western Front Diaries of Charles Bean: The journalist as witness to history
Despite its price, this book is a remarkable bargain. It contains not only the diary entries but also hundreds of photos, maps, drawings, explanatory notes and miniature biographies.
- by Michael Sexton