August Blue News Today

Contributors and friends of the magazine reflect on what they read in 2023.

From Paul Murray’s The Bee Sting to Zadie Smith’s The Fraud, and a companion to Nineteen Eighty-Four – this year’s fiction highlights

We asked writers from Australia and overseas to tell us which books had knocked their socks off in the past year.

We asked writers from Australia and overseas to tell us which books had knocked their socks off in the past year.

We asked writers from Australia and overseas to tell us which books had knocked their socks off in the past year.

Novelists and nonfiction writers reveal the books they will be giving as gifts – and the paperback they would love to find in their own stocking

From Gucci to Balenciaga, creatives have become captivated by doppelgangers. It speaks to our uncanny times – and our unease around what’s real and fake

“Palestinianism was for Said a condition of chronic exile, exile as agony but also as ethical position.”

Held in a tiny bookshop in the West End, Talia Byre’s Spring/Summer 2024 show was a salon-style celebration of colour and bygone eras of Topshop. Here, she talks about crafting clothes with a “clever sexiness” to them

The Irish novelist Anne Enright is now in her sixties. Her deceptively modest new novel, The Wren, The Wren, opens with a long section narrated by Nell…