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

Why do you want to write your book? Writers are most often very honest about this. As suggested above, they can imagine ...

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 ...

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

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

Edmund White, professor of creative writing in the Lewis Center for the Arts, emeritus, died at his home in Manhattan on June ...

When Cambridge author Joanna Rakoff was a kid, her dad told her stories about his life that seemed straight out of Hollywood. After he died, she learned a lot of them were made up. Rakoff wrote about ...

Best known for the memoir ‘A Million Little Pieces’ and the ensuing controversy, James Frey now has a sizzling beach read ...

She’s not well known in the U.S., but Elif Shafak is destined to become a major literary force with her latest book, “There ...

Growing up in Minneapolis, Bao Phi carried with him the quiet weight of a family history shaped by war and survival. His family had fled during the violence and upheavals around the ending of the war ...