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Lisa, Chloe and Carlie Higgins in Mudgee, 1997. When my father speaks about the accident, he opens with the line: "When I killed my daughters …" Lately, I have been trying to correct him. I give him books to read, make him come running with me, secure us back-to-back appointments with a psychologist. I do […]
Poets go wild on a Gap Year! The Making Of Poetry reveals all about the time Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth spent in Somerset The Making Of Poetry is a great example of biographical literary criticism Adam Nicolson is alert as a poet himself to the specifics of landscape in his work While researching […]
How six siblings went to war: Blinded by the Japanese, stranded in the jungle, bombed in the Blitz, the Walker family endured all the horrors of war. Now a gripping account by one granddaughter reveals how they ALL survived… To War With The Walkers is Annabel Venning’s account of family’s wartime life It covers the […]
The author of “The Grammarians” and other novels favors nonfiction when she’s writing: “I try not to read contemporary fiction, which is often so good it’s discouraging or so bad it’s discouraging.” What books are on your nightstand? I work in bed, so my bedside pile is a tower not of Babel but of everything […]
It’s time to wish our Friends a happy birthday. On Sept. 22, NBC’s era-defining sitcom will celebrate the 25th anniversary of its premiere. The story of six lovably neurotic friends — played by Jennifer Aniston, now 50; Courteney Cox, 55; Lisa Kudrow, 56; Matt LeBlanc, 52; Matthew Perry, 50; and David Schwimmer, 52 — navigating […]
Born with a drawerful of silver spoons in his mouth! How a boy who was adopted by a bi-sexual member of the aristocracy and grew up seeing Princess Margaret land a helicopter on the lawn discovered his real mother was a social worker Charles Duff recounts his upbringing in North Wales in a fascinating memoir […]
Who is Jimmy Olsen? The intrepid Daily Planet photojournalist has long been a key part of the Man of Steel’s entourage, but it’s been a long time since he seized the spotlight for himself. That all changes with Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen, a new 12-issue comic maxi-series from writer Matt Fraction and artist Steve Lieber, […]
Game of Thrones author George RR Martin has urged his global legion of fans to not forget history – and said he feared the world was in danger of repeating the mistakes of the past. The American creator of the hugely popular fantasy book and TV series said he appreciated that readers loved his fantasy […]
Book Week has been a part of the Australian calendar for decades and is a wonderful way to celebrate reading (which you would expect me to say, being a children's book writer). In the lead-up to the Children's Book Council of Australia announcing their awards, many schools spend the preceding weeks reading the shortlisted books […]
SAFE ENOUGH SPACES A Pragmatist’s Approach to Inclusion, Free Speech and Political Correctness on College CampusesBy Michael S. Roth THE ASSAULT ON AMERICAN EXCELLENCEBy Anthony Kronman Measurement is tricky, but it looks as if white students may now be a minority at all the Ivy League undergraduate colleges. This has happened recently, and to say […]