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'Imagine this were your sister,' Ronan Farrow tells Woody Allen's publisher
Ronan Farrow, author of Catch and Kill, said he would cut ties with his publisher after it announced one of its divisions was publishing Woody Allen's autobiography.
- by Jennifer Schuessler and John Williams
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Literature
Mantel says her weighty new novel has all 'the big important things'
Sex, power, politics, forgery and lies: Eight years later, Hilary Mantel finishes 863 pages in her acclaimed trilogy about Henry VIII's fixer, Thomas Cromwell.
- by Jane Wheatley
Literature
Astonishing novel concludes Hilary Mantel's Thomas Cromwell trilogy
The English novelist's third book about Thomas Cromwell is like the grand, final movement of a symphony.
- by Kirsten Tranter
LGBT
Questions about 'gay agenda' stun West Australian children's author
His books about acceptance and inclusiveness have won awards, and speaking gigs at schools across the state. But the message hasn't got through to everyone.
- by Emma Young
Literature
Books That Changed Me: Sally Morgan
Indigenous artist Sally Morgan has long been a fan of Tony Birch's writing.
History
Myth-busting Tasmania's 'last Aboriginal': Inside Truganini's world
Cassandra Pybus imagines Truganini's reality and finds it's hell on earth.
- by Kerrie O'Brien
Good Weekend
Inspired by her father's escape, teenage debut novelist Vivian Pham is set to become a voice of her generation
What began as an after-school project turned into a debut novel that has set the Australian publishing industry abuzz. And Vivian Pham is still only 19.
- by Stephanie Wood
Literature
Non-fiction reviews: To the Lake and three other titles
Kapka Kassabova takes a poetic journey back to her family's homeland.
- by Steven Carroll
Good Weekend
Cookbook author Alison Roman makes mistakes - and brilliant food
I find most people’s attempts to be as chaotic and useless as I am in my daily life deeply annoying. Not so Roman.
- by Amanda Hooton
Bookmarks
Bookmarks: Singing the Bologna blues
The big book fair that caters to publishers of children's titles has been postponed - there is no certainty it will go head on its new dates.
- by Jason Steger
Literature
A Hungarian master reaches his creative peak
Laszlo Krasznahorkai takes readers on a dreamlike journey through a dying town's hope of revival.
- by Shaun Prescott