Journalism

Vance and Nettie Palmer engaged in literary journalism throughout their careers. They knew that good reviewing in the weeklies and monthlies is—in Frank Kermode's words—'an…

Between 1873and her death in 1908, Mrs Frances Cashel Hoey, wife of the secretary to the Victorian agent-general in London, regularly contributed 'A Lady's Letter…

Too many people write poetry presuming to think they are wholly and solely poets: this is what fate has willed them to be to the…

Examines patterns in the relationship between newspaper accounts of sensational crimes and crime fiction published in the late 1880s.

In Disturbing Element (1963) Xavier Herbert presents a colourful account of his entry into the world of journalism in Melbourne in 1925. Here he supposedly…

The capacity to mix fine prose with accuracy and insight is not easy to come by and I have long believed that a distinguished list…

Marcus Clarke was fascinated not only with the public spaces of the nineteenth-century city, colonial Melbourne in particular, but with the increasingly commodified, spectacularised forms…

The dynamics of what might be called colonial Gothic, by which I mean the Gothicizing of the settler-colony as a site of repression, also anticipate…

This article argues that the longform, immersive podcast is a significant site for tracing some of the rapidly changing contexts and ongoing debates of nonfiction…

Emily Maguire is a Sydney-based author who has written six novels, three non-fiction books and numerous articles on feminism, culture and literature. Her early novels…