Book reviewing

Angela Bennie's Creme de Ia Phlegm collects Australian book reviews published in the so-called mainstream press, including state and national newspapers, and journals such as…

Recounts Henry Handel Richardson's tussle with reviewers critical of her translations of Norwegian novels Siren Voices and The Fisher Lass.

It is rare, and heartening, to see a large publishing house in Australia bringing out literary criticism aimed at a non-academic audience. Penguin took the…

Review of the following volumes:

Australian Women Writers: A Bibliographic Guide, by Debra Adelaide. Sydney: Pandora, 1988.

The Good Reading Guide: 100 Critics Review…

In the last two decades of the nineteenth century there is growing evidence of attempts to encourage the spread of literary culture and Australian writing…

In April 1936 Jonathan Cape, the London publisher, informed Vance Palmer that he had been thinking of re-issuing Joseph Furphy's Such is Life. But…

Most reviews in Australian newspapers and journals at the moment seem to be written either by academics or by professional journalists whose hearts and minds…

The gloves are off, it might seem, when a male critic declares that the latest prize-winning woman author 'talks dirty and passes it off as…

While Thomas Keneally himself generously acknowledges that 'the critics made me' (Pierce, Interview), few Australian authors - in the course of long, productive and internationally…

Book reviews have an understudied commercial function, acting as a crucial link between publishers and the press within the interactive book trade. For most of…