The first novel of beat legend Jack Kerouac was considered lost forever. The Sea is My Brother has now been released by Penguin, but how excited should we get about a book the author made no attempt to publish? ask Claire Allfree.
Reforms proposed by the Book Industry Strategy Group are long overdue but don’t go far enough and may be difficult to implement, according to industry players and authors.
Harry Potter author JK Rowling recently announced that she nearly killed off sidekick Ron Weasley midway through the series. Jon Methven examines what would happen if some of literature's favourite characters had been edited off the page.
Aussie readers can now purchase an enormous range of Google ebooks directly from Google, as well as bookseller partners including Booktopia and Dymocks.
The University of Melbourne will abandon control of its 80-year-old bookshop and put it out to tender amid a torrent of red ink flowing through Australia's stricken bookselling industry.
Criticism is like public affairs and politics in the sense that it's not just about ideas but power and influence. Richard Brody discusses two writers: one changed critics, the other changed the cinema.
“Shit, man, we must build a bomb!” yelled gonzo journalist Hunter S Thompson at Johnny Depp the day they met. Depp recounts his experiences with the eccentric legendary writer to The Daily Beast.
Jon Ronson is well-known for his journalism and his books Them: Adventures with Extremists, and The Men Who Stare at Goats. He chats with Angela Meyer about his latest book The Psychopath Test.
This is an extract from an essay in On Utøya: Anders Breivik, right terror, racism and Europe.
A small salary from The New Yorker was not enough for the late, acclaimed film critic Pauline Kael to live in relative comfort. As a new bio by Brian Kellow explains, she moved to Hollywood and was chewed up and spat out by the system.
