Print books embody culture. We see it in social media trends for annotating books, community publishing and wartime destruction of books spanning the Nazis to Gaza.
- Associate Professor in Publishing and Communications, The University of Melbourne
Reading on its own can’t solve every problem. But it can help us gather the resources we need to live in a way that is meaningful.
What do professional readers choose to read on holiday? The answers include romance fiction, science-fiction classics, a French detective, Japanese assassins … and War and Peace.
From dubious guests of honour from oppressive states to allowing far-right publishers to show, Frankfurt Book Fair’s political stances have been all over the place.
Romance fiction has a reputation for being conservative, but in reality it is an innovative and uncontrollable genre.
Fewer than 1% of Australian publishing professionals are First Nations and only 8.5% have an Asian cultural identity.
Booker Prize-winner Eleanor Catton announced last week she would use her NZ$15,000 winnings from the New Zealand Post best fiction and people’s choice prizes to set up a new grant for writers, dedicated…
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