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Reading Australia

A series celebrating Australian writers.

  • Charlotte Wood

    In these dark times, embracing laughter is an ethical choice

    Charlotte Wood
    Laughter has optimism embedded in it. It allows us to see that, while we are all human and we fail, we can change
  • Caucasian woman studying on floor of library

    'The difficulty is the point': teaching spoon-fed students how to really read

    When the logic of capitalism means universities are run as businesses, much is lost. Reclaiming literature is crucial to understanding the times we live in
  • Charlotte Wood

    Charlotte Wood: We’re told female anger is finding its moment. But I can’t trust it

    Cheering at the bastards going down feels like the ecstasy of a classroom run amok, but beneath this lurks the fear that when it’s over we’ll all cop it
  • Cat resting on books in library

    Eight new Australian writers you should read (according to those who know)

    We ask industry insiders – publishers, editors, festival directors – for their pick of the new cream of the literary crop
  • Author Tom Keneally

    Thomas Keneally: death is not the fly in the cosmic ointment. It is the cosmic ointment

  • Thomas Keneally reads William Dunbar's Lament for the Makaris – video

  • A hacker on a computer

    The corrosion of truth in these strange times is terrifying

    Lies have become alternative facts and truth irrelevant in the face of power, while we all give up our privacy
  • Cover image for Year of the Orphan

    Isobelle Carmody on Daniel Findlay's 'novel of revelation'

    The acclaimed fantasy author dives into the apocalyptic world of Findlay’s ambitious first novel, Year of the Orphan
  • A book cover for a series on new authors by Guardian Australia's culture desk. by Jonny Weeks for The Guardian.

    Toni Jordan on her favourite new writer: ‘You should be reading Briohny Doyle’

    Best-selling novelist Toni Jordan celebrates the intrepid, brutal, important work of emerging writer Briohny Doyle
  • The writer Alexis Wright in Australia

    The big book about small town Australia that travelled the world

    It’s 10 years since Carpentaria won the Miles Franklin award, broke all boundaries and was acclaimed around the world. Its author reflects on writing to her country
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