The oriental actress caught between two worlds
COLIN STEELE reviews a new biography of Anna May Wong… the first Chinese American actress to become a major Hollywood box-office attraction.
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Book reviewer ANNA CREER looks at three British crime novels... a university thriller, a policeman with a tragi-comic approach to crime and the mystery of a missing mother.
Reviewer COLIN STEELE looks at three Australian science fiction (or speculative fiction) books that provide future scenarios reflecting fears of the impact of artificial intelligence, climate change and the growing power of China.
Chris Hammer’s sixth book, the crime thriller, The Seven, has won the $10,000 2024 ACT Book of the Year Award.
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Praiseworthy author Alexis Wright wins Miles Franklin
Author Alexis Wright has become a two-time winner of the prestigious $60,000 Miles Franklin Literary Award, with her epic novel Praiseworthy.
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Books reveal threads of Jane Austen’s life
Reviewer ANNA CREER looks at three new books centred on different insights of the life of English author Jane Austen.
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Six of the best: Book of the Year shortlist
Six books, from 41 eligible nominations, have been shortlisted for the 2024 ACT Book of the Year award.
Some people find it hard to view their grandparents as whole people, but after writing her debut book, Stories My Grandmothers Didn’t Tell Me, author Andra Putni says she finally understands.
In the international art world, Gauguin is a box-office hit. How do galleries balance Gauguin commercial success with heightened public sensitivity to issues of gender, race and colonial appropriation, asks book reviewer COLIN STEELE.
The Miles Franklin judges say they are "awed by the ambitious sweep and range of the novels" competing for the prestigious $60,000 literary award.
A veteran Canberra poet and a rising novelist were among the big winners at the 2024 ACT Literary Awards, hosted at Canberra Contemporary Art Space on the lakeside, by Marion Ink on Thursday.
It’s time to stay indoors and let four authors take you to faraway places, writes book reviewer ANNA CREER.
Local author Susannah Begbie's debut novel is about a wealthy, but dying, farmer who is “cranky with everything, but with his kids in particular,” reports KATARINA LLOYD JONES.
Books reviewer COLIN STEELE looks at three books that, he says, provide fascinating insights into Britain in the 20th century, accounts that reflect "the more things change, the more they stay the same".
A creative producer and program co-ordinator at the National Film and Sound Archive is the new CEO of the Canberra Writers Festival.
ANNA CREER reviews the latest thriller from UK author Tim Sullivan, a successful British screenwriter and director of film and television, as well as a best-selling crime writer.
Kairos, a novel about a love affair between a younger woman and older man in 1980s Germany, has won this year's International Booker Prize.
COLIN STEELE reviews new horror novel by Canberra author Kaaron Warren. He describes The Under History as "an impressive dark, haunting and decidedly original, novel that juxtaposes the themes of family, loss and self-preservation".
Book reviewer COLIN STEELE looks at the American rock stars of the new literary phenomenon – "romantasy" writing – which is sweeping the world.
