Charles Dickens remains an enigma despite innumerable books and articles written about him. There is so much information about Dickens' life it is virtually impossible to get a clear picture of the man, writes Robert Douglas-Fairhurst.
Three and a half decades after writing his best selling horror novel The Shining, Stephen King is close to finishing a sequel and read an excerpt from it at an American university last weekend.
Bright and Distant Shores is hugely imaginative historical fiction set just before the dawn of the 20th century in Chicago and the South Pacific. Angela Meyer sat down for a chat with its author Dominic Smith.
They were putting copies of Julian Assange: The Unauthorised Autobiography in the window of Waterstone's this morning when I arrived to buy a copy, which was cool -- I really thought that was no more than a movie cliché, writes Guy Rundle.
WikiLeaks leader Julian Assange's much-talked of book is being released in Britain today, following a sudden announcement from publishers Canongate.
Ignoring the constraints of time, distance and, well, reality, Kathleen Massara pairs famous literary characters she believes would be best friends in real life -- among them Captain Ahab and Kurtz and Holden Caulfield and Draco Malfoy.
Author Christos Tsiolkas has attacked the decision to axe Radio National's Book Show. He writes in an open letter to the ABC board ...
Michael Butor's Mobile and Ross Gibson's The Summer Exercises are stories that so successfully extrapolate their texture, arc, shapes and tone from their non-fiction sources that it's like watching DNA replication occur, writes Kent MacCarter.
One has to say something about the demise of The Australian Literary Review, especially in light of Nick Cater's somewhat freestyling herogram-to-self in yesterday's comments section.
The days in which biographers waded through mountains of paper trails are over. The digitisation of old newspapers, which contain incredible amounts of information, has opened up some exciting possibilities, writes Stephen Mihm.
