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You don’t need to visit a gallery or museum to experience the works of well-known artists, from Romare Bearden in the Bronx to Katherine Bradford in Brooklyn.

Every highbrow hack, as Evelyn Waugh described Cyril Connolly, is apt to experience an embarrassment of riches when it comes to recommending books for the beach and other seasonal retreats from workaday life. Surveying the bookcase and its shelf of recent titles, this year is very much of a kind

Author Nicholas Jose says the Great Australian Novel 'isn't doing too badly, thanks'.

“How is The Great Australian Novel going?” asks a character in Thea Astley’s The Well Dressed Explorer, a Miles Franklin Literary Award w

A major new history of the Australian novel is shaped by the recent renaissance in Indigenous writing, but there are some notable omissions.

In “The Sun Walks Down,” Fiona McFarlane attempts to subvert an old Australian story about white innocence menaced by a hostile landscape.

From mythical Moth people, who kidnapped children, to threatening desert fairies in loincloths, early Australian fairy tales helped sanitise white settlement, expressing colonial fears.

The following letters were published in what was called the St. Augustine Evening Record in December 1921.

A puppy, a baby doll that walks and talks and two lead pencils: heres what kids asked for in their letters to Santa 100 years ago.

The following letters were published in what was called the St. Augustine Evening Record in December 1921.