Broken peace over the printed word
Trouble is brewing at a prestigious old journal of letters, writes
Steve Meacham.
The sound and the fury
If poetry is dead, the words of Nick Cave fill those spaces left
undernourished by its departure.
Kit and kinship: Denton helps develop dreams
HE MADE his name in the razzle dazzle of television, but Andrew
Denton also knows the lean life of the writer.
Favourite defies kiss of death to impress peeved judges
THE Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has won the Orange
Prize, one of the top awards for women writers, for a novel set
during the civil war in Biafra in the 1960s.
Mind the gap and pick up a free book
Over the next few weeks, an organisation called the London Book
Project will take "book crossing" to a new level.
Muffin top is a word lover's barbecue stopper
Nominations are rolling in for the Macquarie Dictionary 2007
word of the year.
Power of written word still wins an audience
In an age of terrorism, words and images can be ambiguous.
His hours now shine
His books have won the highest honours in France but his latest
novel goes back to his native Russia, to nature and to 'the
carnal'.
A fairytale beginning
Imaginary worlds that are macabre and funny, beguiling and
believable, won over the judges of this year's Sydney Morning
Herald Best Young Australian Novelists award.
Literature is more than words
The author and illustrator Shaun Tan faced a conundrum at a Sydney
Writers' Festival event on Thursday.
From dancer to charmer
The opening days of the Sydney Writers' Festival belonged to the glamorous men of literature, and to China.
A case of mind over grey matter
AS A biographer, Paul Broks has some unorthodox techniques at his
disposal.
Sydney Writers' Festival opening night address
"The power of literature: the news that stays the news" was the
subject of Andrew O'Hagan's moving address.
Author's quest to plan a useful life
It turns out Richard Ford's ambitions are more modest than those of
his alter ego, a sportswriter turned real estate agent.
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The Diary of Petr Ginz 1941-1942
A Jewish boy's creative spirit comes to life as he records the
years before his deportation.
What is The What
A biography, or is it a fantasy, captures the hardship and
hopefulness of everyday life in Sudan and Ethiopia.
The Law of Dreams
From famine to Liverpool to America - this take on a classic tale
is never mawkish.
Aphelion
Memories and metaphors crowd this gothic tale of lives drowned by
progress.
In Europe: travels through the twentieth century
How the gig of the year became a journey back through a painful
century.
A Life Less Ordinary
Baby Halder's debut could neatly be cast as a "misery memoir".
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