Although this selection of nearly 500 pieces is necessarily fragmentary, Parmée has arranged the texts in such a way as to suggest certain preoccupations. By turns witty, cynical and wise, despairing and hopeful, Chamfort’s ...

This article describes the Robin Lovejoy collection at the National Library of Australia.

"Very Big Journey" is Hilda Jarman Muir’s story. Nevertheless, a good deal of the book’s joy lies in the author’s hearty self-assertion, and how this seems to have been enabled by a broader indigenous community.

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As one who has always envied but never enjoyed the Germanic Sitzfleisch — the scholar’s ability to lodge the body firmly and indefinitely at its task — I think that I can see its fruits in this book. Mind you, it cannot ...

Should the recent turbulent history of one university in one state of Australia matter to us? Some of the critics of Cain and Hewitt's "Off Course" think not. But there is a residual, stubborn, Robert Menzies-inspired ...

"The Haha Man" by Sandy McCutcheon is a rollicking good read that highlights the refugee plight without a whiff of the lecture hall.

Asiye’s case attracted wide interest, particularly from International PEN’s Writer in Prison Committee and Sweden’s Lawyers without Borders. Extraordinarily, "Asiye’s Story: One Woman’s Journey from Torture to Triumph", ...

Some time before the sun set on the British empire, ‘British justice’ took on an ironic meaning. In the colonies, we knew it was a charade, like that doled out to ‘Breaker’ Morant during the Boer War. The dice are loaded ...

Whether it's fate or mere coincidence, the life stories of the two most celebrated writers of the Pacific — Robert Louis Stevenson and Albert Wendt — dovetail together on the small tropical island of Upolu in Western Samoa.