Whether or not The Odyssey is a story for our time – or for all time – it seems more approachable,more sensuous,diverting,and a lot more fun than its fierce martial prequel set beneath the battlements of Troy.
Although her book Unbelievable is a first-hand account of Donald Trump's presidential campaign rather than a work of political analysis,Katy Tur does attempt to explain his appeal.
Mohammed al-Samawi was holed up in the bathroom of his apartment as bombs rained down. Here's the story of how he escaped a war zone.
Sofija Stefanovic crafts fragments of memory into a chronological narrative that deftly weaves her personal story with the broader political one.
On the eve of her Australian tour Jennifer Egan opens up about the importance of place,Donald Trump and family dramas.
As Christos Tsiolkas points out,Patrick White ticks a lot of the wrong boxes,according to the literary politics of our time:he is white,male,patrician,canonical.
Sunburnt Country is situated at the intersection of history and science and explores the mechanisms that underpin the extreme variability of the Australian climate.
American novelist Amy Bloom says she has only four subjects:love,family,sex and death,''which I think is plenty''.
A story that is a celebration of personal possibility and a portrait of a moment of transformative change.
Holly Ringland's storytelling in The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart is driven by an undimmed sense of wonder at the darkness and light.
In Craig Sherborne's novel muckraking journalist Callum Smith determines to rewrite his own story with the same unscrupulous means by which he writes the stories of others.