The deputy chair of the Melbourne writers festival, Leslie Reti, has resigned over a poetry session on Aboriginal and Palestinian solidarity in this year’s program. The festival’s artistic director, Michaela McGuire, has... Read more »
Printed Matter Chelsea Thrilling, overwhelming, chaotic: even if I spend an hour in Printed Matter, I often feel like I’ve only scratched the surface. It took me a couple of years to... Read more »
Zadie Smith, Paul Murray and Naomi Klein are among the authors who have been shortlisted for the Writers’ prize, the award previously known as the Rathbones Folio prize. Smith’s first historical novel... Read more »
“They’re Made Out of Meat” has been produced as a radio play, adapted for two films, and quoted by Stephen Pinker, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, and other scientists to evoke the philosophical conundrum... Read more »
Last month, a pair of climate activists attacked a painting known as “The Rokeby Venus,” by the Spanish master Diego Velázquez, which hangs in London’s National Gallery, using hammers to smash the... Read more »
The ambition to create is indistinguishable from the fear, verging sometimes on conviction, that you can never do so. Glück’s genius as a poet was reflected in her keen understanding that the... Read more »
Dear BookBrowsers, In this issue, we review the latest from author Tania James. Loot follows a young Muslim woodcarver on an epic journey beginning in 18th-century India, while exploring colonialism, social marginalization... Read more »