Solitude was a Romantic ideal. What separates it from loneliness? In this chapter, Alberti explores the two ideas through the ...

By placing a marginal character in the classic modern novel, Mrs Dalloway, at its centre, Michelle Cahill’s metafictional ...

Jennifer Mills is one of Australia’s most innovative writers; in Josephine Rowe’s words, “a deeply empathetic genius”. Salvage is Mills’ sixth book and its speculative fiction narrative of near-future ...

Looking back over the lives of women in Australian writing between the gaining of national suffrage in 1902 and the second ...

The writer on the necessity of humour amid bleakness, how she likes to challenge her readers, and misogyny in the North ...

The RCB stadium stampede exposes the convergence of crowd psychology, state failure, caste-coded fandom, and the violent spectacle of cricket in a country where identity and sport merge.

The book, thus, not only looks at the past through its creative web of connections, which is both deep and surprisingly light ...

What follows is a madcap road novel in which Kinnick zigzags across the Pacific Northwest, encountering one distinctly American weirdo after the next as he tries to reunite the family he ran away from ...

The most poignant emotion that war evokes is remembrance. How do the survivors—the soldiers, the mothers and fathers, the ...

Ageing, especially women’s ageing, is often viewed negatively. In her memoir Blooming, Carol Lefevre critiques different ...

Over the years, Lawrence’s biographers have made cases for all three. Why did Sylvia Plath kill herself? Was it an act of ...

An ambitious and impressive work, Ross Barkan's book "Glass Century" pulses with the same spirit as his reporting, yet ...