‘A cultural icon’: axed Australian literary journal Meanjin finds new life in Queensland | Australian books

‘A cultural icon’: axed Australian literary journal Meanjin finds new life in Queensland | Australian books

The literary journal Meanjin will return to the city it was born in that bears its Indigenous name. The Queensland University of Technology announced on Wednesday it had acquired the 85-year-old journal,... Read more »
Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, February 10th

Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, February 10th

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The Great Resistance by Carrie Gibson review – a panoramic account of the fight to end slavery | History books

The End of Books Coverage at the Washington Post

There are still plenty of places to read about literature, many of them excellent. There are older and more established outlets, like the London Review of Books and The New York Review... Read more »
‘A white man’s war, a Black man’s fight’: the eye-opening story of Black soldiers in Vietnam | Books

‘A white man’s war, a Black man’s fight’: the eye-opening story of Black soldiers in Vietnam | Books

Wil Haygood’s new book, his 10th, is The War Within a War: The Black Struggle in Vietnam and at Home. Meeting in Washington DC to discuss it, he produces from between the... Read more »
Sydney author guilty of child abuse after book, Daddy’s Little Toy, depicted adult role-playing as toddler | New South Wales

Sydney author guilty of child abuse after book, Daddy’s Little Toy, depicted adult role-playing as toddler | New South Wales

A Christian author behind an “undeniably offensive” toddler-roleplaying novel could face time behind bars after the book was found to contain child abuse material. Lauren Ashley Mastrosa, 34, wrote Daddy’s Little Toy... Read more »
Female, Nude by Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett review – a seductive drama of art and rivalry | Fiction

Female, Nude by Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett review – a seductive drama of art and rivalry | Fiction

It is the summer of 2019, and Sophie Evans, the reckless protagonist of Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett’s unsettling second novel, has arrived on an idyllic island in the Cyclades with her university friends Helena,... Read more »
The Great Resistance by Carrie Gibson review – a panoramic account of the fight to end slavery | History books

Daily Cartoon: Monday, February 9th

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Daily Cartoon: Tuesday, February 10th

Poem of the week: To Wordsworth by Percy Bysshe Shelley | Percy Bysshe Shelley

To Wordsworth Poet of Nature, thou hast wept to knowThat things depart which never may return:Childhood and youth, friendship and love’s first glow,Have fled like sweet dreams, leaving thee to mourn.These common... Read more »
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