Something to Read While the Women of this World Pass You By

10 Mar 2013 | Tiernan Kelly says the gritty new debut novel by brothers Josh and Benny Jones features outstan ...  

Happy Margo Kingston relaunches 'Still Not Happy, John!'

28 Feb 2013 | Margo Kingston’s 2007 bestseller ‘Still Not Happy, John!’has been relaunched as an ebook. ...  

Bob Ellis on the Bryce Courtenay he knew

25 Nov 2012 | In by no means a hagiography, Bob Ellis writes that he met Bryce Courtenay in 1962, was fired by ...  

Campbell Newman picks Big Brother over the Arts in Queensland

23 Nov 2012 | In Campbell Newman’s Queensland, the Government slashes funding for literature and the arts, but ...  

Rodney E. Lever: The Fall of the House of Murdoch

31 Oct 2012 | A new book reflects on the Orwellian tactics exercised by Rupert Murdoch through his News Corp ...  

Zombies take Brisbane

21 Oct 2012 | In the last few years zombies have taken over post-apocalyptic fiction from their evil dead ...  

The Republic of Letters

14 Sep 2012 | Now in its fourth year, the National Republican Short Story Competition is helping to build the ...  

‘Conspire’ in a great new IA book offer

10 Sep 2012 | Novelist Graham Jackson reviews IA contributor Victoria Rollison’s new political thriller, with ...  

Melbourne’s New York love affair

2 Sep 2012 | Why are Melburnians lining up outside in the freezing cold to see a few New York magazine editors? ...  

Of loves and labours found – or at least imagined

19 Aug 2012 | Mark Batistich reviews a new play written by Bob Ellis and Denny Lawrence now premiering in ...  

Much ado about Shakespeare

10 Aug 2012 | It is said we stand on Shakespeare's shoulders, but Bob Ellis says he stood on greater shoulder ...  

The Prince of Letters, Gore Vidal

6 Aug 2012 | Bob Ellis recalls a man he knew — one of the greatest writers, and minds, of our time, the ...  

Shakespeare in Italy — in Adelaide

30 Jul 2012 | Australian literary legend Bob Ellis has a new play about the life of Shakespeare that goes on ...  

The Legend of Wunda Woman

25 Jul 2012 | It isn't necessary to fund chaplains in schools, says Graham Jackson; that money would be better ...  

Canberra Times silently cuts its book pages

22 Jul 2012 | Fairfax has outsourced Canberra Times book reviews to other Fairfax publications, but without ...  

Can Do a Stewpid State

8 Apr 2012 | On 3 April 2012, a mere ten days after the LNP landslide win in the recent Queensland state ...  

Nuclear powered action with Target Isotope

25 Mar 2012 | Managing editor David Donovan reviews Pete Hancock’s new nuclear powered thriller, 'Target ...  

The rare and remarkable Robert Hollingworth

25 Mar 2012 | Robert Hollingworth’s "Smythe's Theory of Everything" is reviewed by Rocky Dabscheck — music ...