Week in Review

It’s my great pleasure to announce the shortlist for the 2017 CA-SRB Emerging Critics Fellowships: Shu-Ling Chua (ACT) Daniel Davis…

The Sydney Review of Books invites applications for the 2017 CA-SRB Emerging Critics Fellowships. Applications close on 25 July 2017….

Fifty years on, One Hundred Years of Solitude is still providing profound insight about our evolving human tale where horrors co-exist with wonders, where absurdities don’t provoke a blink.’

If you are a writer, or know one, there is no doubt you would have heard the statement ‘My book could have done better but the marketing was crap.’ The romance of publishing a book is alive and well and regularly clouds the reality of having achieved significantly with one’s labour and imagination (and a supportive publisher). Publishing a book rarely changes one’s life – but it can break your heart if you expect it will.

‘For all the brouhaha¬†about the digital¬†economy, websites are often seen as the poor cousins of glorious, prestigious, printed journals. The beauty of printed objects only goes so far to explain this hierarchy. The kudos accorded print publication also relies on the association of the relative ease of digital publication with sloppy editing and hasty writing. Print, by contrast, expensive and time-consuming to publish, benefits from assumptions about care, deliberation and durability.’

‘The renewal of the interest in direct subsidy to working artists and writers comes in part through the recognition that current government policies about culture almost completely ignore the labour markets of cultural industries. The¬†reason to support artists and writers is simple and immediate: because culture is a good thing, and supporting people to make it will produce more of the good.’ ‘

Early on in Shirley Hazzard’s most steadfast novel, The Transit of Venus, Professor Sefton Thrale expounds on the end of…

A standout feature of our 2016 program was a major series of essays devoted to place titled Writing NSW. We asked essayists,…

The Sydney Review of Books ends 2016, a year of defeated prognostications globally and locally, on a firmer footing than…

Prison administrators routinely ban true crime books, asserting without explanation their threat to the ‘security and good order’ of jails….