Fiction
Best new awards and arts prizes: January 2026
This month’s awards and prizes celebrate the best in poetry, painting, creative writing and innovative museum practice.
Best new awards & arts prize winners: December 2025
This month's awards and prizes celebrate portrait art, emerging musicians, and the best Irish, Scottish and Welsh books of the…
Why do we love Helen Garner so much?
From Monkey Grip to How to End a Story, Helen Garner has been writing with clear-eyed precision for the better…
Emergence Magazine Vol. #6 – Seasons review: impressive arts and ecology magazine
'Emergence' offers a quiet contemplation of the Earth’s cycle of rebirth, life, decay, and death.
Best new awards & arts prize winners: October 2025
This month's awards and prizes run from celebrating fiction at its most novel to reviving the legacies of trailblazing but…
Katabasis review: R F Kuang latest book is clever and absurd
It is rare to encounter a story that can be described as both ‘light imaginative escapism’ and ‘dense philosophical exploration’,…
Miles Franklin winner 2025: Siang Lu, Ghost Cities
The Miles Franklin winner, Ghost Cities, is a beguiling, metafictional novel set in a film set. But who's directing who?
Book review: Autocorrect, Etgar Keret
Etgar Keret is back with 33 short stories about life, the universe and everything in between.
Famous closing lines in books
So, you've tried guessing the opening lines of famous novels, how about the final words?
Book review: That’s All I Know, Elisa Levi
An engaging tale of sadness and quiet desperation.