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Sister Bullwinkel review: a biography by Lynette Ramsay Silver tackles the truth after 80 years
Lynette Ramsay Silver’s account about Sister Bullwinkel, Australia's wartime nurse, makes for grim reading, but we shouldn’t look away.
Vale Uncle Noel Tovey AM: Indigenous champion of gay rights
Tovey is remembered for his spirit, courage and creativity, and as a courageous elder with a sly wit.
Inconvenient Women review – Australian literary cage-rattlers and trailblazers
From the suffragists to the feminist writers of the 1970s, this book navigates both their inconsistencies and their courage when…
Live & Local returns in Sydney Writers' Festival 2025
Highlights of the 28th edition of the Live & Local program.
Book review: Outrageous Fortunes, Megan Brown and Lucy Sussex
An unearthing of the life and times of Mary Fortune, who wrote the first book of detective stories published in…
Book review: Sonny Boy, Al Pacino
The Oscar-winning actor looks back on his life and career to reveal how he left the Bronx to hit the…
Book review: The Name of This Band Is R.E.M., Peter Ames Carlin
'Follow me, don’t follow me': the contradictions guiding “The Most Improbably Successful Group In The World” in this biography of…
Failure and frustration spawn success for Prime Minister’s Literary Awards winners
Six books including a debut novel and a debut poetry collection have each received $80,000 in this year’s Prime Minister’s…
Book review: Madame Brussels, Barbara Minchinton
A biographical insight into one of early Melbourne's most successful businesswomen.
Book review: Letters to a Critic: Alan McCulloch’s World of Art, Rodney James
An invitation to know the artist, cartoonist and critic, Alan McCulloch, more intimately than through his writing alone.
