Alexis Wright’s work expresses a sovereign Aboriginal worldview, but owes a debt to a pantheon of authors from around the globe.
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Jamie Oliver’s novel has been withdrawn due to its ‘damaging and disrespectful’ portrayal of First Nations people. Here is how non-Indigenous writers need to approach it: First Nations people first.
Praiseworthy is the defining work written on this continent so far this century. It defies classification.
The winner of this year’s Miles Franklin Literary Award will be announced this evening. Astrid Edwards takes you through the contenders in our annual expert guide to the shortlist.
Is Alexis Wright’s Praiseworthy the great Australian novel? Beejay Silcox, chair of the Stella Prize judging panel that selected it as this year’s winner, thinks it might be.
Plan your summer reading or catch up on what you missed with The Conversation’s selection of the best books of the year.
Alexis Wright’s latest novel is an elegy and an ode to Aboriginal law and sovereignty: innovative, visionary, and volcanic in its rage.
What do popular ‘settler’ Australian stories like The Castle and Trent Dalton’s books say about who we are? What do they evade? Jeanine Leane investigates the state of post-Mabo Australian literature.
Australia’s political economy was built on the primacy of (white) male labor, male power and male control, writes Julianne Schultz. Women have changed this culture - but still risk abuse when speaking out.
A giant ocean fish swims into the heart of industrial Port Kembla looking for food. What if we take its presence, a few km from an ancient, living midden, as a symbol of both new and old ways to learn in the age of the Anthropocene?
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