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Did you hear the one about the obscenity trial?
'Uneasy, Ambiguous and Strange': Why rewrite Nobel Prize winner Thomas Mann?
Yes, we are reviewing Sally Rooney's new novel
The Book Club: On Memory
How to read like an Australian writer
Why you should read Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (and meet his feistiest character)
Wolves, ghosts and a great flood: scary things in books
Outraged tweeters, miniature soldiers and the flooded canals of Venice
The Book Club: Amanda Lohrey's The Labyrinth & the Miles Franklin Literary Award shortlist
Three novels of seclusion: by Mark Brandi, Sunjeev Sahota, Patrick McGrath
The deliberately depraved and dissolute worlds of James Ellroy and Lisa Taddeo
Podcast Extra: More Musical Mayhem with Taylor Jenkins Reid and Dawnie Walton
The Book Club: Turn up the Music!
Can't Travel? Here's a collection of books that will transport you
A party to end all parties, a stranded whale, musical words and a train: what to read this week
A shrinking lake, a circus of wonders, and a baby: novels to make you feel and think
Reading Jane Austen from the 1940s until now (and other adventures in reading and reviewing)
The Book Club: Patricia Highsmith
Podcast Extra: Patricia Highsmith's biographer answers your questions
Reading Western Sydney, a hot country town & fantasy Africa remade
Ern Malley Rides Again! Writes, we meant writes
Podcast Extra: Reading the world in Spinoza's Overcoat
Earwax, kidnappings and an octopus god
Podcast Extra: Sujata Massey and a woman lawyer in India in the 1920s
The Book Club: reading Kazuo Ishiguro in the sun
Live from the Sydney Writers Festival with Anita Heiss, Rick Morton and Emily Maguire
Podcast Extra: General Sir Peter Cosgrove reads historical fiction and political biography
New books by Patricia Lockwood, Jacqueline Maley, Peace Adzo Medie and Marco Missiroli
Podcast extra: Maria Dahvana Headley and all that monstrous reading
New fiction from Ethan Hawke, Olivia Sudjic and Dirk Kurbjuweit
Podcast Extra: Steven Carroll on reading wartime surrender in the scandalous Story of O
New books by Haruki Murakami, Patricia Engel and Blair James
Podcast Extra: Fiona Mozley reads her way into London and Edinburgh
The Book Club: The Vietnamese diaspora and the aftermath of war
Podcast Extra: Francis Spufford's Light Perpetual and the books behind it
Trevor Shearston's The Beach Caves, Fiona Mozley's Hot Stew and what Caleb Azumah Nelson reads
Podcast Extra: Robert Jones Jr on James Baldwin and the other writers that have shaped him
New fiction from Edward St Aubyn, Steven Carroll and Lisa Harding
Podcast Extra: Daisy Buchanan is insatiable for books
Ella Baxter's New Animal, Francis Spufford's Light Perpetual & the Sydney Writers' Festival is back
Podcast Extra: Max Porter answers your questions
The Book Club: February — Art in fiction
Podcast Extra: Simon Winchester's Bookshelf
Reading Simon Winchester, Sarah J Maas, John Kinsella and Guillermo Martínez
Podcast Extra: What does Angie Thomas read?
New fiction by Caleb Azumah Nelson, Melissa Broder and Sònia Hernández
Podcast Extra: Andrew Pippos and the bookshelf that made Lucky's
On Robert Jones Jr's The Prophets, Una Mannion's A Crooked Tree, and a new translation of Beowulf
Podcast Extra: More on the writer Madeleine St John
The Book Club 2021 No 1: Work
On Anna North's Outlawed, Raven Leilani's Luster & Kevin Barry's That Old Country Music
Summer Bookshelf celebrating Australian writing
Summer Bookshelf with novels by Malcolm Knox, Frances Cha & Garth Greenwell
Summer Bookshelf with novels by Aravind Adiga, Richard Flanagan and Maggie O'Farrell
Summer Bookshelf and The Dry on screen plus novels by Laura Jean McKay, Curtis Sittenfeld & Mieko Kawakami
Summer Bookshelf: The Rain Heron, Greenwood, A Theatre for Dreamers and Mayflies
The Bookshelf's Best Reads of 2020 (Part 2)
The Bookshelf's Best Reads of 2020 (Part 1)
Podcast Extra: Naomi Novik
Podcast Extra: Garth Nix
The Book Club No 8: Mining the past
Podcast Extra: Susanna Clarke
Maybe they're all aliens?
Podcast Extra: Lev Grossman
A film set, a glass heart, and the unclaimed dead
Podcast Extra: Graham Swift and the rough glittering world
A cafe, a shiver, a chase
Fictionalised lives, old friends and empty streets
The Book Club No 7: On the Coast and in the Water
Tragedies, Sagas and Infinite Splendours
Vanishing body parts and toxic relationships
Podcast Extra: Andrew O'Hagan
A mythic quest and star-crossed love
Podcast Extra: Chris Riddell sharpens his pencil
The Book Club No 6: Italy in translation
Podcast Extra: Sue Miller
Standing on the bridge, wrong side of the rail
Podcast Extra: Maria Lewis
Slipping between worlds and cities, in history, fiction and fantasy
Podcast Extra: Meg Rosoff
Podcast Extra: Christopher Paolini
Podcast Extra: Sarah Moss & Ian McGuire
Imagined taxonomies of life, love, death and memory
Podcast Extra: Raymond E Feist
Podcast Extra: Dugald Bruce Lockhart
Book Club No 5: Speculative Fiction and N K Jemisin’s The City we Became
Podcast Extra: Kester Grant
Podcast Extra: Nicholas Shakespeare
A tricky nemesis or two, the past, and a damp holiday camp
Poisonous plants, talking rabbits, and a roadtrip of tears
Thrillers, wars and labyrinths spiral through fiction
Family secrets and the approach of General Winter in three new Australian novels
The Book Club No 4: Tara June Winch's The Yield and Miles Franklin's My Brilliant Career
Creatures, sisters and relationships in fiction
A note in a forest, a train on fire, a gothic mood
History, fiction and plastic surgery
The Book Club No 3: Crime, thrillers, and Lawrence Wright’s The End of October
Pod Extra: Poetry and Music
The discomfort of grief and memory
Reading love and tragedy in Jamaica, Trinidad and India