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A column canvassing current literary news including a comment on the 2011 report produced by US lobby group VIDA. The report showed that in 2011, the New York Review of Books reviewed seven books by women writers and 293 by men. Jason Steger includes Australian figures produced by Bookseller & Publisher for the same period; the figures show that while there is still a gender disparity in Australian newspaper reviewing, it is not nearly as marked as in the US sample.