His first novel has just won a prestigious Nebula Award; now John Wiswell puts his humorous and humanist spin on the labours ...

British historian Anne Sebba’s account of the Nazi death camp describes the dissonance of beautiful music in a place of ...

Winner of a Queensland Literary Award, Steve MinOn’s debut novel charts the lives – and afterlives – of a family of Chinese ...

The French Open may be over for another year, but Roland-Garros will always belong to Rafael Nadal, its all-time champion.

Emily Tesh’s magical fantasy The Incandescent is as much about the art of teaching as it is about dealing with demons.

The new novel from the author of The Wanderers explores relationships within the New York ballet world. It is clear from the very beginning that Carlisle Martin is a dancer. ‘Feel what I feel,’ she ...

In KA Linde’s latest fantasy series, humans and monsters live together under a tenuous peace treaty in an alternate New York. Kierse’s latest contract – to break into some rich guy’s house and steal a ...

Andrew Fowler argues that the AUKUS submarine deal compromises Australia’s sovereignty and exposes the country to the danger of nuclear waste. Vassal state: a state with varying degrees of ...

This anthology showcases the range of First Nations speculative fiction. This All Come Back Now is a collection of speculative fiction by First Nations authors curated by Mykaela Saunders, who ...

Mexican horror movies, a Nazi occultist and dark magical powers – Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s new novel has them all. Silvia Moreno-Garcia has not yet written two books in the same genre. Though that ...

Melbourne author Fiona Hardy has broken very different ground with her crime fiction debut Unbury the Dead. Hardy is well-known in crime fiction circles as a Melbourne bookseller, crime fiction ...

Evoking Sydney in the 1980s, Michael Fitzgerald’s third novel plays with ideas of identity, celebrity, and mortality. I’m not always Zelda, and Zelda is not always me. The voice is not Zelda’s and yet ...