Archive for August, 2018

Two of us with literary couple Tracy Chevalier and Jonathan Drori

Friday, August 31st, 2018

They’re a delightfully nerdy couple: the author of Girl With a Pearl Earring and the science writer whose latest book explores our relationship with trees.

Yes, crime does pay, just ask Christian White and his Nowhere Child

Friday, August 31st, 2018

This Victorian novelist’s success – a six-figure, two-book deal – is just the beginning. And now it’s time to party.

Less is more: Andrew Sean Greer’s prize a big win for queer literature

Friday, August 31st, 2018

Not since 1978’s Tales of the City have books by queer authors received much critical attention. But this Pulitzer-winning novel looks to a brighter future.

William McInnes on life, and losing his greatest love

Friday, August 31st, 2018

Actor William McInnes talks on his career and the women that have influenced him.

Advice from drag queens turned a depressed queer girl into a global pop star

Friday, August 31st, 2018

Heloise Letissier was in a deep depression when she met some drag queens who urged her to be bold, It worked. Now she is the French pop phenomenon Christine and the Queens.

How horticulturalist William Robert Guilfoyle revealed the botany of Shakespeare

Friday, August 31st, 2018

Horticulturalist William Robert Guilfoyle has lingered in the shadows of our gardening history. Now his huge contribution and exploration of Shakespeare’s use of botany is revealed.

Matt Groening’s new comedy Disenchantment casts a spell

Friday, August 31st, 2018

With wry and dry touches, this fractured fairytale plays like The Simpsons crossed with The Princess Bride.

‘Breast Master’ surgeon and online site at loggerheads

Friday, August 31st, 2018

Sydney’s ‘Breast Master’ takes his image very serious, especially when he’s up against this city’s ‘King of Boobs’.

Australia’s new climate of fear

Friday, August 31st, 2018

Australia’s rural landscape is terrifying readers around the world – a sub-genre warranting its own moniker, outback noir.

Wattle Day: How nationalism and golden boughs beat off the waratah

Friday, August 31st, 2018

September 1 is Wattle Day but our national emblem was challenged by the Waratah on its journey to floral supremacy.