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2008
- 29 June Documenting writers' lives: what should be in the archives?
- 29 June Neil Gaiman and the graphic novel
- 27 June 1796 Theatre Playbill - the earliest surviving document printed in Australia
- 26 June A bridge between orient and occident - Geert Mak
- 25 June Imagining Brisbane -- Simon Cleary
- 24 June The Anatomist
- 23 June Paul Constant: stolen books
- 20 June Colonial Australian crime fiction
- 20 June Miles Franklin Award winner 2008 - Steven Carroll
- 20 June The future of the Miles Franklin
- 19 June Queen of the Wits
- 18 June EW Cole and the Cole's Funny Picture Books
- 18 June Nam Le - The Boat
- 17 June The perils of publishing eccentric fiction
- 17 June Burning books
- 15 June David Guterson's The Other
- 15 June Growing up Asian in Australia
- 13 June The future of public libraries
- 11 June Peter Ho Davies - The Welsh Girl
- 10 June Julia Leigh's Disquiet
- 10 June Kieran Tapsell - a passion for translating
- 09 June Joseph Heller, the late American author of Catch 22
- 08 June Anne Enright in conversation at the Sydney Writers' Festival
- 06 June Documenting writers' lives: what should be in the archives?
- 05 June Why writers choose anonymity
- 04 June Neil Gaiman and the graphic novel
- 03 June Not Dark Yet: Reading and Seeing
- 02 June Marsupial mysteries
- 02 June How did Winnie the Pooh get its name?
- 02 June The libraries of East Timor
- 01 June Jeanette Winterson live from the Sydney Writers' Festival
- 01 June Luke Davies and The God of Speed
- 29 May Shaun Tan - Tales from Outer Suburbia
- 28 May Fiona Capp - Musk & Byrne
- 28 May Darwin Online
- 27 May Junot Diaz in conversation at the Sydney Writers' Festival
- 26 May Anne Enright in conversation at the Sydney Writers' Festival
- 25 May Why Not Catch 21? Gary Dexter looks at the stories behind book titles
- 25 May Rowan Somerville and The End of Sleep
- 25 May Poetic anarchy: Pi O
- 23 May David Rieff live at the Sydney Writers' Festival
- 21 May Gregory Day's new novel: Ron McCoy's Sea of Diamonds
- 21 May The great unpublished novels of Australia
- 20 May Luke Davies and The God of Speed
- 20 May Why Not Catch 21? Gary Dexter looks at the stories behind book titles
- 19 May Trying Leviathan: putting the whale on trial
- 19 May The Future Australian Race: Redmond Barry v Marcus Clarke
- 18 May Erotica - is it porn or is it literature?
- 18 May Rotten English: writing in the vernacular
- 16 May Poetry special: The Death of the Bird by AD Hope
- 15 May Poetry special: The Continuance of Poetry by Rosemary Dobson
- 14 May Poetry special: The Glugs of Gosh by CJ Dennis
- 13 May Poetry special: Rockpool by Judith Wright
- 12 May Poetry special: Five Bells by Kenneth Slessor
- 11 May From parody to patronage: John Clarke and poetry
- 11 May Isabel Allende
- 09 May Complete works of Shakespeare: a new edition
- 08 May Erotica - is it porn or is it literature?
- 08 May Parallel universes - the politics and history of alien abduction
- 07 May Rotten English: writing in the vernacular
- 06 May Rowan Somerville and The End of Sleep
- 06 May The literary Karl Marx
- 05 May CK Stead: poet, novelist and literary critic
- 04 May Ursula K. Le Guin
- 01 May Translating Tolstoy
- 01 May Judy Johnson and Captain Jack
- 29 April Poetic anarchy: Pi O
- 28 April Writing about fear: Gabrielle Lord
- 28 April The surreal life of a war correspondent
- 27 April Salman Rushdie's enchantress
- 27 April Travis Holland's The Archivist's Story
- 24 April Ursula K. Le Guin
- 23 April Isabel Allende
- 23 April Steam punk
- 22 April From parody to patronage: John Clarke and poetry
- 22 April Travis Holland's The Archivist's Story
- 21 April Salman Rushdie's enchantress
- 17 April Lewis Lapham looks at past thinkers on money
- 15 April Talking about books you haven't read
- 15 April What animals mean in fiction
- 14 April Linda Grant and the humanity of monsters
- 14 April Mark Davis: the health of Australian literary publishing
- 13 April Helen Garner's return to fiction with The Spare Room
- 13 April Translating Aesop's fables
- 10 April Siri Hustvedt's The Sorrows of an American
- 09 April Paul Auster and the writer's mind
- 08 April Helen Garner's return to fiction with The Spare Room
- 07 April Peter Cochrane: Colonial Ambition
- 07 April Joan London's The Good Parents
- 06 April Brock Clarke's mock memoir: An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England
- 03 April Masterworks from the web - an anthology of blogs
- 01 April Advancing towards World War II
- 31 March Translating Aesop's fables
- 30 March David Mitchell at Writers and Readers week, New Zealand.
- 30 March Geraldine Brooks's People of the Book
- 28 March Memoirs - distinguishing fact from fiction
- 27 March The brush or the pen? Great writer-artists
- 26 March City of Words: Alberto Manguel
- 25 March The plight of book reviewing with Gail Pool
- 24 March Paula Fox
- 21 March Paul Wilson: translating modern Czech writers
- 20 March Geraldine Brooks's People of the Book
- 19 March Journeying through America with Don Watson
- 18 March David Mitchell at Writers and Readers week, New Zealand
- 17 March Steven Galloway's The Cellist of Sarajevo
- 16 March History, geography and culture of the novel
- 16 March Poetry and military life ... teaching literature at West Point
- 14 March Paul Muldoon
- 13 March Damien Wilkins
- 12 March Kevin Rabalais' fascination with Burke and Wills
- 11 March Historian Jonathan Richards
- 09 March DJ Taylor and the Bright Young People
- 02 March Friday Nights with Joanna Trollope
- 02 March The mystery of Agatha Christie
- 28 February The history, geography and culture of the novel
- 24 February Should Nabokov's unpublished manuscript be burned?
- 22 February Memoirs of Zimbabwean-born writer and journalist Peter Godwin
- 20 February Philosopher and author AC Grayling
- 19 February Poetry and military life ... teaching literature at West Point
- 18 February The literary life of Gerald Murnane
- 17 February Dancing in the Streets with Barbara Ehrenreich
- 17 February Garrison Keillor on Lake Wobegon
- 15 February Should Nabokov's unpublished manuscript be burned?
- 13 February Roy Jacobsen's novel The Burnt-Out Town of Miracles
- 12 February Marketing Lady Chatterley: origins of spin in publishing with Jonathan Rose
- 08 February Writers' retreats
- 07 February American poetry critic Helen Vendler
- 05 February Friday Nights with Joanna Trollope
- 04 February Bernhard Schlink's Homecoming
- 31 January Garrison Keillor on Lake Wobegon
- 29 January Dancing in the Streets with Barbara Ehrenreich
- 28 January The mystery of Agatha Christie
- 25 January Mining Sue Stanford's poetry collection (review)
- 24 January Patrick Gale: Brisbane Writers' Festival
- 23 January Armistead Maupin: Brisbane Writers' Festival
- 22 January Pat Barker: Edinburgh International Book Festival
- 21 January Richard Flanagan's The Unknown Terrorist
- 18 January Imagining the Arctic and Antarctic
- 17 January Simon Ings and the natural history of the eye
- 16 January Susan Sontag: At the Same Time (review)
- 15 January Bartholomew Roberts: King of the Caribbean
- 14 January John Berger's political ways of seeing
- 11 January An intimate relationship: editors and writers
- 09 January David Levithan: gay teen fiction
- 09 January Steven Hall's The Raw Shark Texts
- 04 January The Power of Literature: Andrew O'Hagan
- 03 January Andrei Makine's The Woman Who Waited
- 02 January Calum's Road: Roger Hutchinson
- 01 January Queen of Fashion: Marie Antoinette
2007
- 31 December Richard Ford: Edinburgh International Book Festival
- 28 December Writing the West Wing
- 27 December Michael Ondaatje on Divisadero
- 25 December David Malouf's Typewriter Music
- 24 December Bird watching with Margaret Atwood and Graeme Gibson
- 20 December The world without us: a thought experiment with Alan Weisman
- 19 December The resurgence of the essay with Julianne Schultz
- 19 December Taslima Nasreen: Bangladeshi writer in hiding in India
- 17 December Singing and fishing in Matthew Condon's Trout Opera
- 14 December In praise of the common reader: Ramona Koval's Overland public lecture
- 12 December Rats of the air or heroes of war? The surprising history of pigeons
- 10 December Mentorships for young writers -- Christos Tsiolkas with Jim Thomson
- 10 December Trevor Shearston's Dead Birds
- 06 December Philip Gourevitch, editor of The Paris Review
- 05 December Michael Chabon: swashbuckling gentleman of the road
- 03 December Robert Reynolds' What Happened To Gay Life?
- 22 November New York Review of Books update with Robert Silvers
- 21 November Nature's monsters and our imagination with David Quammen
- 20 November Amit Chaudhuri's This Is Not Fusion
- 19 November Alex Miller's Landscape of Farewell
- 16 November Let the music do the writing...
- 16 November American screenwriters' strike
- 15 November Ian Rankin's Exit Music
- 13 November Robert Harris's The Ghost
- 12 November Lion of American letters, Norman Mailer dies at 84
- 09 November Inga Clendinnen on the impossibility of biography
- 07 November Edmund White's Hotel de Dream
- 06 November Michelle de Kretser: The Lost Dog
- 02 November A family writing affair
- 31 October The Italian mind: La Bella Figura
- 30 October Geoff Page's Seriatim
- 26 October Who wrote Frankenstein?
- 25 October Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy
- 24 October Robert MacFarlane's The Wild Places
- 23 October Jeanette Winterson's The Stone Gods
- 22 October The history of virginity with Hanne Blank
- 12 October Doris Lessing - Nobel prize winner 2007
- 11 October Jay Parini's Last Station: Tolstoy's Final Year
- 09 October Amy Bloom's Away
- 04 October Nicholas Shakespeare's Secrets of the Sea
- 01 October Richard Ford: Edinburgh International Book Festival
- 20 September Patrick Gale: Brisbane Writers' Festival
- 19 September Simon Ings and the natural history of the eye
- 18 September Armistead Maupin: Brisbane Writers' Festival
- 13 September Malcolm Knox 's Jamaica
- 10 September Philip Gourevitch: Edinburgh International Book Festival
- 04 September Pat Barker: Edinburgh International Book Festival
- 03 September Colin Thubron: Edinburgh International Book Festival
- 30 August David Leavitt on Alan Turing
- 29 August Ewan Morrison's The Last Book You Read and Other Stories
- 28 August From fact to fiction: journalists turned novelists
- 24 August Banned books in Australia: from moral crusaders to national security
- 23 August Post Hurricane Katrina: writing about New Orleans
- 21 August The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh, by Linda Colley
- 17 August The art of writing the government report
- 15 August Cameron Forbes on Bali
- 08 August What is structural editing?
- 06 August JM Ledgard's Giraffe
- 31 July Richard Flanagan's The Unknown Terrorist
- 30 July James Morrow's The Last Witchfinder
- 26 July Imagining the Arctic and Antarctic
- 18 July John Berger's political way of seeing
- 12 July Tom Staley ... the Harry Ransom literary archive in Texas
- 11 July Robert Silvers, editor of the New York Review of Books
- 09 July Jacob Rosenberg - Sunrise West
- 06 July Alexis Wright Sydney PEN lecture: A Question of Fear
- 02 July Bartholomew Roberts: King of the Caribbean
- 29 June An intimate relationship: editors and writers
- 24 June David Levithan: gay teen fiction
- 21 June The passion and pain of literary translation
- 20 June David Levithan: gay teen fiction
- 20 June Steven Hall's The Raw Shark Texts
- 18 June Tim Parks: Umberto Saba's poem 'Goal '
- 17 June The Power of Literature: Andrew O'Hagan
- 15 June The death of Australian literature
- 13 June Andrei Makine's The Woman Who Waited
- 12 June Rawi Hage's De Niro's Game
- 12 June 9/11 fiction: does it work?
- 10 June Richard Ford's The Lay of the Land
- 08 June The Power of Literature: Andrew O'Hagan
- 04 June Richard Ford's The Lay of the Land
- 03 June David Malouf's Typewriter Music
- 03 June Two novels for and about teenage girls (review)
- 29 May David Malouf's Typewriter Music
- 28 May Susan Sontag: At the Same Time (review)
- 20 May Michael Ondaatje on Divisadero
- 20 May Bird watching with Margaret Atwood and Graeme Gibson
- 15 May Bird watching with Margaret Atwood and Graeme Gibson
- 14 May Michael Ondaatje on Divisadero
- 13 May Queen of Fashion: Marie Antoinette
- 09 May Queen of Fashion: Marie Antoinette
- 06 May Justin Wintle's The Perfect Hostage: the story of Aung San Suu Kyi
- 04 May Writing the West Wing
- 29 April John Pilger
- 22 April Justin Cartwright (repeat)
- 22 April Mark Vernon's Philosophy of Friendship (repeat)
- 20 April Writing the Story of Your Life, with Carmel Bird (festival forum repeat)
- 19 April A memoir between two cultures, with Liza Dalby (repeat)
- 19 April The Dangerous Book For Boys: Conn Iggulden (repeat)
- 18 April Review of Mark Haddon's A Spot of Bother (repeat)
- 17 April The Book of General Ignorance: review (repeat)
- 16 April How Novels Work: according to John Mullan (repeat)
- 15 April Sarah Dunant's In the Company of the Courtesan
- 12 April Sarah Dunant's In the Company of the Courtesan
- 04 April Calum's Road: Roger Hutchinson
- 02 April John Pilger
- 01 April Miranda Seymour's memoir of obsession: In My Father's House
- 01 April Hamid Dabashi
- 29 March Miranda Seymour's memoir of obsession: In My Father's House
- 28 March National Biography Award winner: Jacob Rosenberg
- 27 March Hamid Dabashi
- 22 March Jon Spence's Becoming Jane Austen
- 18 March Robert Dessaix: observation, wisdom and narrative
- 18 March Thomas Keneally's The Widow and Her Hero
- 14 March Steven Carroll's The Time We Have Taken
- 13 March Thomas Keneally's The Widow and Her Hero
- 12 March Robert Dessaix: observation, wisdom and narrative
- 06 March Enrique de Heriz's Lies
- 05 March Geoff Page reviews Picnic, by Fay Zwicky
- 04 March Justin Cartwright
- 04 March Mark Vernon's Philosophy of Friendship
- 01 March Justin Cartwright
- 28 February The Dangerous Book For Boys: Conn Iggulden
- 27 February A memoir between two cultures, with Liza Dalby
- 26 February Mark Vernon's Philosophy of Friendship
- 25 February Writing the Story of Your Life, with Carmel Bird (festival forum)
- 20 February Elizabeth Jolley dies
- 04 February How Novels Work: according to John Mullan
- 02 February Writers At Risk: the plight of writers who speak out
- 29 January How Novels Work: according to John Mullan
- 29 January Arnold Zable: From Socrates to Politkovskaya
- 23 January David Lodge on the Year of Henry James at the Edinburgh International Book Festival
- 22 January Harold Pinter, Nobel prize-winning playwright and poet, at Edinburgh International Book Festival
- 21 January Audio books and the making of the 56-CD box-set of War and Peace
- 18 January Bartleby & Co, by Enrique Vila-Matas
- 17 January Malcolm Fraser launches Reflected Light
- 17 January Translating Ismail Kadare
- 15 January Postmodernism in our schools: panel discussion
- 12 January The art of the essay
- 11 January Ann Jones on Afghanistan after the fall of the Taliban
- 10 January All done with mirrors: Iain Wright
- 09 January The Bedside Book Of Birds: Graeme Gibson
- 08 January James English: The Economy of Prestige - Prizes, Awards and the Circulation of Cultural Value
- 07 January Moroccan writer Tahar Ben Jelloun
- 04 January Raphael Rubinstein
- 02 January Samuel Beckett's 100th birthday
- 01 January Peter Carey: Theft: A Love Story
2006
- 31 December Leonardo da Vinci: The Marvellous Works of Nature and Man
- 31 December Emergency Sex - and other desperate measures
- 29 December The art of the obituary: panel discussion
- 28 December Lisa See: secret women's writing
- 28 December The writings of Magnus Mills
- 27 December Athol Fugard: Tsotsi
- 26 December Ann McCulloch and John Wolseley: The Art of the Notebook
- 26 December Art Since 1900: review
- 25 December Simon Nasht: The Last Explorer
- 18 December Geoff Page: the poetics of 2006
- 30 November Alex Miller: Truth in Fiction and History
- 23 November Richard Flanagan: Writing The Unknown Terrorist
- 14 November Review of Jennifer Harrison's Folly and Grief
- 08 November Review of Visiting Picasso: The Notebooks and Letters of Roland Penrose
- 06 November Review of Kate Atkinson's One Good Turn
- 05 November Frank Moorhouse: Freedom of Expression in a Time of Terror
- 05 November Irish novelist Colm Toibin on his Mothers and Sons
- 03 November Don Anderson reviews Nobel Lectures
- 01 November Irish novelist Colm Toibin on his Mothers and Sons
- 31 October Review of George Ogilvie's Simple Gifts: A Life in the Theatre
- 31 October Frank Moorhouse: Freedom of Expression in a Time of Terror
- 29 October Andrew O'Hagan
- 26 October Andrew O'Hagan
- 25 October Rex Butler reviews Things I Didn't Know, by Robert Hughes
- 24 October Geoff Page reviews My Tanka Diary by Kawano Yuko
- 22 October David Malouf and Every Move You Make
- 19 October David Malouf and Every Move You Make
- 19 October Alison Croggon reviews JG Ballard's Kingdom Come
- 02 October Kate Bochner reviews Paulo Coelho's Like the Flowing River
- 01 October Harold Pinter, Nobel prize-winning playwright and poet, at Edinburgh International Book Festival (transcript available)
- 29 September Klaus Neumann reviews Robert Bevan's The Destruction of Memory (transcript available)
- 29 September Nobel prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney at the Edinburgh International Book Festival (transcript available)
- 28 September Unfettered literary pleasure with John Gross at the Edinburgh International Book Festival (transcript available)
- 27 September David Lodge on the Year of Henry James at the Edinburgh International Book Festival (transcript available)
- 26 September Mathematician Sir Roger Penrose and The Road To Reality (transcript available)
- 26 September Geoff Page reviews Other Summers, by Stephen Edgar (transcript available)
- 25 September Harold Pinter, Nobel prize-winning playwright and poet, at Edinburgh International Book Festival (transcript available)
- 12 September Review of Contemporary Australian Drama, by Leonard Radic (transcript available)
- 11 September Review of Life, End Of, by Christine Brooke-Rose (transcript available)
- 07 September Janine Burke's review of Lady Franklin's Revenge, by Ken McGoogan (transcript available)
- 06 September Review: Creme de la Phlegm, edited by Angela Bennie
- 01 September Review: Fast, Loose, Beginnings, by John Kinsella (transcript available)
- 22 August Peter Timms reviews How to Look At a Painting, by Justin Paton (transcript available)
- 13 August John Armstrong: Love, Life, Goethe - How to be Happy in an Imperfect World (transcript available)
- 13 August Malcolm Fraser launches Reflected Light (transcript available)
- 08 August Malcolm Fraser launches Reflected Light (transcript available)
- 08 August Translating Ismail Kadare (transcript available)
- 06 August Audio books and the making of the 56-CD box set of War and Peace (transcript available)
- 30 July Urban Myths by John Tranter, reviewed by Geoff Page
- 28 July The art of letter writing (transcript available)
- 27 July Amanda Lohrey: who's voting for Jesus? (transcript available)
- 26 July Hilary McPhee on the book industry blame game (transcript available)
- 26 July Is art criticism in crisis? Raphael Rubinstein (transcript available)
- 25 July David Williamson in conversation (transcript available)
- 24 July Review by Geoff Page of Windchimes poetry collection
- 23 July David Williamson in conversation (transcript available)
- 19 July Publishing White. Or not? (transcript available)
- 16 July Editors of the TLS and New York Review of Books on the post-9/11 era (transcript available)
- 13 July James English: The Economy of Prestige - Prizes, Awards and the Circulation of Cultural Value (transcript available)
- 12 July Novel in court: Turkish writer Elif Shafak (transcript available)
- 10 July Ann Jones on Afghanistan after the fall of the Taliban (transcript available)
- 05 July The Fabulist, by Rod Howard (transcript available)
- 04 July Neatness Counts: Essays on the Writer's Desk (transcript available)
- 03 July Rex Butler reviews 100 Anime, by Philip Brophy (transcript available)
- 02 July Moroccan writer Tahar Ben Jelloun (transcript available)
- 29 June Raphael Rubinstein (transcript available)
- 28 June Moroccan writer Tahar Ben Jelloun (transcript available)
- 26 June Colm Tóibín
- 25 June Postmodernism in our schools: panel discussion (transcript available)
- 21 June Pham Thi Hoai (transcript available)
- 19 June The Art of the Essay (transcript available)
- 18 June Review of Kathryn Fox: Without Consent
- 16 June Postmodernism in our schools: panel discussion (transcript available)
- 14 June Peter Temple (transcript available)
- 13 June Review of Kathryn Fox: Without Consent
- 09 June The War On Words (transcript available)
- 06 June Speculative Fiction - Paul Voerman's review
- 02 June Women of Independence (transcript available)
- 16 May Review of Vincent O'Sullivan's Pictures by Goya and Other Stories
- 07 May The history of reportage (transcript available)
- 30 April Oil: Anatomy Of An Industry (transcript available)
- 27 April Linda Jaivin: The Infernal Optimist (transcript available)
- 26 April Stephen Miller on conversation (transcript available)
- 05 February Simon Nasht : The Last Explorer
- 07 January Moroccan writer Tahar Ben Jelloun (transcript available)
