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Salt On Your Tongue review: Charlotte Runcie on how women connect with the sea
Salt on Your Tongue blends cultural criticism, research and memoir to tell the story of women and water and love.
- by Catie McLeod
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The Life of Saul Bellow, Vol II review: Zachary Leader's warts and all biography
Zachary Leader's first volume of biography magnificently charted Saul Bellow's lust for literary fame. Volume two opens right at the moment he achieves it.
- by Chris Taylor
Tiberius with a Telephone review: Patrick Mullins' life of a neglected PM
Patrick Mullins debunks the perception that Billy McMahon was little more than a one-dimensional figure dismissed as "wee Willie", or "Billy big ears".
- by Duncan Hughes
Bookmarks: The emasculating of the Booker Prize
The Man group has severed its long links with the Booker Prize
- by Jason Steger
Anniversaries review: Uwe Johnson's masterpiece makes its debut in English
Anniversaries aims to be comprehensive on every topic it takes up — among them, village life in post-war Germany, housing segregation on the Upper West Side of Manhattan and media coverage of Vietnam.
- by Parul Sehgal
John Lanchester: Writing about the future is the best I can do to prevent it
John Lanchester is one of the most interesting British writers around today, adept at many forms and genres.
- by Jason Steger
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead review: Olga Tokarczuk's fable
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead might read more like a Slavic fairytale than a thrilling tale of vengeance, but it can be both.
- by Marta Skrabacz
Sydney Noir review: Stories that walk down the city's mean streets
Sydney Noir is the first Australian addition to the Akashic Noir series of short stories set in cities from Atlanta to Zagreb.
- by Sue Turnbull
Behrouz Boochani wins $100,000 Victorian Prize for Literature
Behrouz Boochani has mixed feeling about winning the $100,000 Victorian Prize for Literature.
- by Jason Steger
Publishing
'Disturbing': government intervenes in Melbourne Uni publishing turmoil
The Andrews government has called on the University of Melbourne to reverse its "disturbing" decision to overhaul its publishing arm, which prompted the resignation of influential chief executive Louise Adler.
- by Henrietta Cook & Clay Lucas
Publishing
'It's a sad day': Melbourne Uni Publishing board quit amid turmoil
Former NSW premier Bob Carr said the independent publisher had been replaced with a "a boutique, cloistered press for scholars only."
- by Henrietta Cook & Jason Steger