Australian Book Review


Australian Book Review Online Edition launches

Australian Book Review is a monthly magazine featuring lengthy, considered book reviews plus poetry and essays. They have launched their Online Edition, which is an enhanced version accessible to subscribers, writes Angela Meyer.

Paul Kelly prints: buy your own W H Chong original

In honour of Australian Book Review’s 50th anniversary, cover designer W H Chong has created a stunning limited edition linocut of singer/songwriter Paul Kelly to rise money for the literary journal.

Quadrant blames political decision for funding cut

Conservative magazine Quadrant is accusing the Australia Council of a “patently political decision” in cutting its funding from $50,000 to $30,000, thus threatening its literary content. But was it politics that caused the cut?

The black and white of the Australian literary canon

Peter Craven’s highly theatrical review of the Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature in the September issue of Australian Book Review is worth picking a fight over, says Sophie Cunningham.