Cirrus@Austlit

'Australian literature and broader humanities research has been “distorted” by a university system that was “forcing” academics “to seek international perspectives on their work”, and which rated their articles in overseas journals more highly than their books, reviews or newspaper articles, an expert has warned.' (Introduction)

'Elcho Islanders are celebrating the legacy of the singer who took their culture to the world'

'Emu Runner was filmed in and around the sparsely populated outback town of Brewarrina, NSW. Writer-director Imogen Thomas knows the isolated community well, having set her 2008 short film, Mixed Bag, there. The director’s first feature is a modest but immensely attractive insight into the world of an eight-year-old Ngemba girl named Gemma, who is wonderfully portrayed by non-professional actor Rhae-Kye Waites.' (Introduction)

'Christos Tsiolkas’s new novel, an unflinching take on Christianity, is the work for which he will be best remembered, writes Geordie Williamson'

'On a sunny morning in Prague’s Old Jewish Quarter, Juliet Rieden stumbles across a cluster of names on a wall. All share her own unusual surname.'

'Heather Morris’s debut novel was a runaway success when it came out in January 2018. The Melbourne-based New Zealand writer wrote The Tattooist of Auschwitz after meeting and befriending the man, Lali Solokov, on whose story the book is based. It’s a love story: Solokov met his wife, Gita Furman, and fell for her, when, as a prisoner-functionary, he tattooed her number on her forearm.' (Introduction) 

'Why has Australian ‘rural noir’ become so popular? Crime novelist Garry Disher investigates'

'Thirty years on from its first production, the iconic Broome musical remains a story of our time' 

'Celebrating 50 years of QTC, Stables and the people's playwright, David Williamson'