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What writers look for when they read a novel We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Save Normal text size Ed., Belinda Castles As The Sydney Morning Herald’s new literary editor in 1996, I dashed off a note to writer Debra Adelaide, asking her to review Kate Jennings’ first novel, Snake. Twenty-five years later, I’m thrilled to see the ripples of enjoyment and influence set off by my choice of a perceptive reader. Within days of learning that Jennings had died in New York this month, I read about Adelaide’s long relations...

"Who's on The List this week?" That was the question back in the Fall of 2012. The List was a list of names that came out every other week after Zumba instructor Alexis Wright was arrested and charged with prostitution. It seems men were going to the Zumba studio for more than some Latin dance moves. According to the New York Daily News, Wright, who graduated from Mt Ararat and went to USM in L/A, videotaped many of the encounters (which of course, leaked online), and kept records of her clients and the $150,000 she made in a year and a half with the extracurricular activities.

Advertisement Novelist S.L. Lim has become the first non-binary writer to be in contention for one of Australia’s most important literary awards since changes were made to the eligibility requirements of the $50,000 Stella Prize for women’s writing. But Lim, who made the longlist with second novel Revenge: Murder in Three Parts, played down the significance of the inclusion which comes after the award changed entry guidelines to include women-identifying and non-binary writers in 2019. Lim said they did not see their achievement as a milestone because the inclusion of non-binary and tran...

The Daily Yonder 8 Rural Books to Help You Get Through the Wintry Weeks at Home – Part 2 The Daily Yonder team comes back with more book recommendations for your reading pleasure. These rural novels, memoirs and short story collections are worth a spot on your reading list. Last week we published a list of some of our favorite rural books to help get you through a tough February. But as temperatures gradually raise and the sun comes out, we believe that reading a great book, inside or outside, hasn’t lost its appeal. Here are eight more rural books recommended by our colleagues...

Antipodean China Australia and China: the two terms are so fluid, so contested, yet inescapably denotative – the China of the mainland, Hong Kong, Taiwan, the diaspora? The Australia that does not exist? Antipodean China, born of intercultural dialogue and exchange, goes against the typical hubris of the global north. Despite enjoying the freedom, power and privilege to learn from other cultures at its cosmopolitan leisure, Australia can often barely be bothered to understand one – whereas the global south, by necessity, must learn about northern cultures alongside its own (and often ma...