Still Life With Cat

Here's a thing I've just noticed about this week's copy for the column of short book reviews I'm currently writing for the ...

The brevity that is the soul of Twitter is not, I feel, entirely my thing. It's enough of a struggle writing four short fiction review...

Back in 1994 I was writing a TV column for Eureka Street . Here's what I said about Laurie Oakes, whose weekly political interviews were...

My very favourite part of my job doing short reviews of fiction every week for the Sydney Morning Herald is ripping open the bags and boxes...

(1) If you're trying to think through/develop/write a complicated argument about Aboriginal writing and its relationship to ideas about ...

So when I got home this afternoon from fifteen rounds with a sibling -- the ferocious upfront one, all teeth and claws all the time, and no ...

There are four kinds of book review. There's the good good review , which is both favourable about its subject and skilfully, knowledgea...

In today's Crikey newsletter, Peter Craven reports on the new Harry Potter movie: ... it’s so episodic that it actually has the material...

I sit on the sofa and I read one novel after another: good novels with bad bits, bad novels with good bits, good novels in whose subject mat...

I'd not heard of Maria Quinn before her first novel The Gene Thieves turned up chez moi for review, but I spent the first hour of this...

Over at Pea Soup, Suse has a lovely holiday post including a snap of her summer reading, Nadia Wheatley's superb biography of Charmian ...

Dear all, Never mind all the blurb and puff and comments solicited from patient and put-upon established writers and heavily edited extracts...