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As conversations about literary representation evolve, so does the Stella Prize. Five of the 12 authors on the tenth Stella Prize longlist are Indigenous, one is non-binary, and genre is in the mix.

Garry Disher's Consolation is an engrossing crime investigation narrative propelled by people and relationships that will keep you guessing. Constable Hirsch #3

The return of a long-running tradition as diverse range of New College of Florida faculty and staff look back at books that impressed them this year.

An author who wrote his first novel at 17, Damon Galgut has spent decades trembling on the edge of greatness. Anyone who has read his scarifying The Good Doctor from 2003 or his 2010 Booker-shortlisted autofiction In a Strange Room, will already know him as a polished stylist and the most acute analyst of contemporary South Africa after J. M. Coetzee.

Disher’s story of a burnt-out cop investigating his mother’s disappearance asks complex questions of its male characters

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA: Waverley Council is delighted to announce the winners of the 2021 Mark and Evette Moran Nib Literary Award, Australia’s national

Cameron Woodhead and Steven Carroll cast their eyes over recent fiction and non-fiction.

Cameron Woodhead and Steven Carroll cast their eyes over recent fiction and non-fiction.

Publishers speak of the profound effect the prize has had on Australia’s book industry in the decade since its establishment

Nevil Gibson The world’s democracies are in retreat. But there’s always hope when popular protests break out in the corrupt dictatorships of Africa, Asia and Latin America, or in authoritarian socialist regimes such as Belarus, Nicaragua and Cuba. Freedom House, a think tank that promotes democratic practices, reports that freedom across the globe has declined for 15 straight years. Last year, 18 countries suffered declines in democratic trends, while six improved. Recent additions to this ...