It’s increasingly rare for us to respectfully disagree these days. Book clubs invite us to do just that – while making time for a good read.
- Director of AustLit, Associate Professor in Digital Cultural Heritage, The University of Queensland
Written in Kelly’s vernacular, this Booker Prize- winning novel is a masterclass in mimicry. But in exploring injustice, there are telling erasures.
We were dismayed to see no Australians on the New York Times Best Books of the 21st Century – so, with the help of 50 experts, we created our own, all-Australian list. You can have your say, too!
Ern Malley was born out of a competitive and often vicious striving to see which vision of Australian national literature would emerge victorious.
Australian literature is a rich and largely untapped source of information about how Australians think about AI.
Noongar author Claire Coleman’s new novel forces us to question what we value and how we live by combining dystopia and utopia, in a near-future very like our own.
Most book clubs are white and middle-class. Even today, books and reading can presume a divide between Indigenous oral story-telling and non-Indigenous literacy.
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