Literature
Adelaide Festival nearly imploded in its lead-up. So, how did things play out?
Chaos engulfed the South Australian capital’s main event before it started. Now, the city is heaving, the sun is shining and there is an air of expectation.
- Kerrie O'Brien
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Stop counting your books and start actually reading them, you heathens
The raw number of books a person reads doesn’t tell you much about their general level of intelligence.
- David Free
‘I want to look him straight in the eye’: Gisèle Pelicot’s quest for truth
After a decade of unimaginable betrayal, the woman who changed French law wants a confrontation in prison with her former husband to demand answers about his crimes.
- Philippa Hawker
Writers paid as much as politicians? Once upon a time, it was a possibility
In the early 1970s, there was talk of paying writers a guaranteed minimum income – the same rate as federal backbenchers.
- Jane Sullivan
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Book Reviews
What’s good, what’s bad, and what’s in between in literature this year? Here we review the latest titles.
The controversial Lionel Shriver returns and a star tells (almost) all: 16 books to read
Candid memoirs and long-awaited returns, there is a bumper crop of new books – including a novel that may be Looking for Alibrandi for a new generation.
- Jason Steger
Liza Minnelli says she was ‘humiliated’ by Lady Gaga at the Oscars
The stage and screen legend dishes on drugs, former husband David Gest and even claims she invented Michael Jackson’s moonwalk moves in her unflinching new memoir.
- Cameron Woodhead
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What if Emily Brontë were on TikTok? Why Wuthering Heights is the movie for the moment
How does the film depict an abusive hero, who is also a person of colour, in the age of both woke and Donald Trump? Actually, it doesn’t.
- Jacqueline Maley
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The game dames: The bold Australian women who found the world, then brought it home
Were Australian men as well travelled in this era? What made these women so keen?
- Richard Glover
An ICU doctor turned her hand to writing poems. Readers can’t stop crying
Dr Melanie Jansen meets parents on the worst day of their lives. She has found an unusual way of coping with the stress.
- Nick Dent