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Keep the measurements, give me the dollops and drizzles
Data rules our lives, numbers and percentages. Every reason to preserve the guesstimates.
- by David Astle
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A prince of publishing looks back on the changes of the past 50 years
Richard Charkin’s memoir is a perfect handbook for young editors.
- by Louise Adler
Pardon me? When machines deliver the wrong massage
The more we rely on technology, the greater the mishap ratio.
- by David Astle
Race, representation and art on the internet today
Omar Kholeif seems to have a perfect track record to write this survey, but sometimes his overall tone is of the poacher turned gamekeeper.
- by Danny Butt
‘Get over it – or die’: Author Jeanette Winterson on her generation’s problem
The English writer discusses body-shaming, transphobia and what makes a bad literary sex scene.
- by Benjamin Law
Give them what they want: RecipeTin Eats’ Nagi Maehashi wins book of the year
The author behind wildly popular food blog RecipeTin Eats has won big at the Australian Book Industry Awards.
- by Hannah Story
Forget the throbbing euphemisms: these romantic leads go to therapy
Bestselling romance author Emily Henry, whose books have sold more than 2.4 million copies, hadn’t read any romance novels before she wrote one herself.
- by Kylie Northover
A dazzling Nigerian novel and a history of undersea exploration
Our reviewers cast their eyes over recent fiction and non-fiction.
- by Cameron Woodhead and Fiona Capp
Could wannabe writers be the next reality TV stars?
With the Literary Death phenomenon being made into a television pilot, perhaps authors will be the next big thing on TV.
- by Jane Sullivan
Can we still love the work of those we’ve cancelled?
After her viral 2017 Paris Review essay, What Do We Do with the Art of Monstrous Men?, critic Claire Dederer considers how we should respond to art made by dreadful people.
- by Cameron Woodhead
Debut author scoops $85,000 in literary prizes with memoir
Gudanji/Wakaja author Debra Dank won Book of the Year at the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards and the prizes for non-fiction, new writing and Indigenous writers.
- by Hannah Story