A new survey of Australian authors finds that while author incomes have (very slightly) grown, they remain perilously low – which makes it hard to find time to write.
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Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow’s new book reveals the tricks behind ‘Chokepoint Capitalism’ – how big corporations use low prices to lock in users and creators, while locking out real competition.
Bourdain’s brother, Christopher, has called for the publisher, Simon & Schuster, to halt publication until the book’s ‘many errors were corrected.’
The author, who died Sept. 1, 2022, inspired countless researchers to probe the injustices working people face.
Many Black audiences are justifiably weary of works about their community told from white perspectives. But authorship isn’t always black and white.
bell hooks, the Black feminist writer and intellectual, died on Dec. 15 aged 69. Scholar and activist Karsonya Wise Whitehead provides a personal reflection on what bell hooks meant to her life.
New research shows that literary relatives tend to share a similar writing style.
Traditional publishing needs to be more open to new voices.
This separation or segregation of women’s writing should be understood as part of the patriarchal control of what and who matters – and, historically, women have not.
Just when you think you’ve had enough of detectives behaving badly, along comes Claire DeWitt. She is, frankly, a beautifully written mess.
Simply drawn, universally appealing. A new exhibition provides an opportunity to marvel at Miffy’s global success.
The poet J.P. Clark was an environmental activist who stood up for his people in Nigeria’s oil-rich Niger Delta region.
The author’s novels, famous for their bleakly sociopathic depiction of American culture, testify to the insanity and abusiveness that surround us.
Writers are often seen as solitary creatures, but there can be great benefits to collaboration.
Fewer books will be available to South Africans, and the books remaining under copyright will be more expensive, if the country gives in to US pressure to extend its copyright term.
Authors sometimes put deeper meanings into their stories, but really, it’s the reader who decides.
Controversy surrounding the awarding of the 2019 Nobel Prize in literature spurs a long-standing debate about the meaning of authorship and literature with new urgency.
There is no single piece of advice that works for everyone, but here is a list that will benefit writers at every stage of their career.
There’s a reason many today have never heard of Norman Douglas: After his death, more and more came forward with stories of his sexual relationships with boys, and he soon faded into obscurity.
Holding authors responsible functions as part of academic quality control – without it we cannot hold authors accountable for shoddy research or the moral consequences of their publications.
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Professor of English, John Carroll University
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Faculty Research Manager, Macquarie University
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Senior Lecturer, Flinders University
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Distinguished Professor of Economics, Macquarie University
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Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities, University College Cork
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Lecturer in Digital Media and Cultures, The University of Queensland
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Researcher and Tutor, University of Oxford
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Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Toronto
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Author and Senior Lecturer, School of Arts, Languages and Cultures, University of Manchester
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Oxford
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Professor of English, University of Colorado Denver
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Associate Professor, Department of Italian Studies, University of Sydney
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Professor of World Literature in English, University of Oxford
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Professor of Sociology, Washington University in St. Louis
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Associate Professor of Theatre and Media Drama, University of South Wales