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The article focuses on Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and the challenges his administration faced amid the global economic decline. Topics discussed include government initiatives to address cost of living such as free Technical and Further Education (TAFE), the Future Made in Australia package and Medicare Urgent Care Clinics, environmental protection legislation in response to mining, transition to renewable energy, and reforms on health, education and jobs.

The Dayton Literary Peace Prize Foundation, dedicated to honoring authors 'whose work uses the power of literature to foster peace, social justice, and global understanding,' has announced the winners of [...]

The Dayton Literary Peace Prize Foundation announced the finalists for its annual awards and named Sandra Cisneros as the winner of its annual Ambassador Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award. [...]

Days before San Antonio, Texas, holds its popular annual Fiesta, the city will hold a celebration with a literary bent. Geraldine Brooks (Horse), Sandra Cisneros (Martita, I Remember You), and [...]

The Cleveland Foundation announced the winners of its annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, which recognize 'literature that confronts racism and explores diversity.' Author and journalist Charlayne Hunter-Gault was given a lifetime [...]

Amazon has unveiled its list of the best books of 2022, with Gabrielle Zevin's Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow taking the No. 1 spot. Zevin's novel, which also made Kirkus' [...]

IN THE FIERCE MORNING LIGHT of Caesarea, we hike down the beach, following the line of a ruined aqueduct that dates from the era of Herod the Great. The golden [...]

Literary Fiction Endurance isn't always a desirable quality. When the goal is admirable--creating art that will survive for generations, or persevering to achieve a noble dream--fortitude is a strength worth [...]

In January of 1939 The Atlantic caused a stir when it published 'I Married a Jew,' an unprecedented first-person chronicle of the experiences of an intermarried non-Jewish woman. In it, [...]

HAMNETA Novel of the PlagueBy Maggie O'Farrell ''Hamnet'' is an exploration of marriage and grief written into the silent opacities of a life that is at once extremely famous and [...]

THE SILENCE OF THE GIRLS By Pat Barker 293 pp. Doubleday. $27.95. ''War is men's business,'' Hector says in the ''Iliad.'' Pat Barker begs to differ. The British novelist has [...]

THE RED-HAIRED WOMAN By Orhan Pamuk Translated by Ekin Oklap 272 pp. Alfred A. Knopf. $27.95. A sense of place animates many novelists, but few more than Orhan Pamuk, for [...]

THE PHOTOGRAPH ON THE BIG screen was beautiful. Curvaceous, shell-pink clusters of little buds snuggled against one another, forming a sphere that was held afloat by a skein of creamy […]

Tetsuya Wakuda who grew up in the city of Hamamatsic on Honshu, Japan's largest island with his unique combination of Japanese restraint and Aussie brashness is one of the best chefs in Australia. He shares his memories and experience in Australia along with the details of his few recipes.

The Portee Station sheep station in the Australian outback is a working sheep ranch that takes in visitors. A description of the workings of the sheep ranch is provided.

KADDISH.COM By Nathan Englander Knopf 2019, 224 pp; $24.95 It's a testament to the plausibility of Nathan Englander's sadre that the first thing I did after finishing his new novel, [...]

James Murdoch, age 26, is usually overshadowed in the News Corp. hierarchy by his older siblings Lachlan and Elizabeth. However, his insight and potential my make him the ultimate heir to the Murdoch media empire.

THE MAN WHO NEVER STOPPED SLEEPINGBy Aharon AppelfeldTranslated by Jeffrey M. Green288 pp. Schocken Books. $26. The Israeli novelist Aharon Appelfeld has said he must hear ''the music'' of a [...]

Robert D. Kaplan, Random House, $22 By Geraldine Brooks It's hard to think of a more eclectic journalist than Robert D. Kaplan, nor one who has so relentlessly followed his [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDThe novel was coming along quite well, until I got to the ¡foreskins. I write historical fiction. Some consider this an outr craft. If literary fiction is Brooklyn, the [...]

THE BOOK OF ARON By Jim Shepard 259 pp. Alfred A. Knopf. $23.95. I finished reading ''The Book of Aron'' shortly before Yom Hashoah. In ¡observance of the day of [...]

Benjamin Netanyahu is heavily favored to be Israel's next prime minister. The former UN ambassador and deputy foreign minister has scored high in opinion polls and foresees a sweeping victory in an electoral process where the prime minister is chosen by the people and not by the party.

The Hope Fund is a small nonprofit founded by retired educator Fahim Qubain and his wife. The group provides scholarship to academically gifted Palestinians who are unable to afford higher education. Qubain was inspired by an article published in 'The Washington Post Magazine' that describes how a $100 donation helped a Palestinian boy graduate with a degree in education.

A 51-year-old working woman shares how she tries to lose the 19 pounds she has gained in 23 years. The methods used include yoga, pilates and Nisa Counter's boot camp. The results of the weight loss programs used are supplied.

THE MAN WHO WALKED AWAY By Maud Casey 233 pp. Bloomsbury. $25. First, a confession: Words like ''liminal'' or ''luminous'' in a novel's blurbs or flap copy work for me [...]

A woman who grew up in Sydney, Australia, but left that city in 1987 describes her desire to return there to celebrate the beginning of the 21st century. Her many happy memories of Sydney are detailed.

HERE I AM Jonathan Safran Foer Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2016, pp. 592, $28.00 'A glass slips from your hand onto a granite countertop. You see the bright line of [...]

The food critic eyes the dish placed deferentially before him. A tangy yet ambiguous aroma -- citrus? pineapple? -- wafts toward his quivering nostrils. Dispatching the remains of a palate-cleansing […]

Traveling alone in the troubled Middle East, a Western journalist discovers that the lives of Islamic women are more complex than any stereotype. When it comes to understanding Islam, few [...]

The Booker Prize is a prestigious literary award that is worth 20,000 pound sterling and is open to all books published in Britain written by authors from any member country of the Commonwealth. The awards has caught the public's attention because of the controveries that abound during the proceedings.

Australian-born, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and former journalist Geraldine Brooks has made her mark with daring fictional reimaginings of some of the most iconic figures in history and literature. A convert [...]

When the Axis powers conquered and divided Yugoslavia, in the spring of 1941, Sarajevo did not fare well. The city cradled by mountains that Rebecca West once described as like […]

DOES MY HEAD LOOK BIG IN THIS? By Randa Abdel-Fattah. 360 pp. Orchard Books/Scholastic. $16.99. (Ages 12 and up) The teenage-girl-as-outsider novel has a venerable tradition, one that predates even [...]

Fifty years ago, the state government of New South Wales, in Australia, announced a competition for the design of an opera house to occupy a sandstone headland in Sydney Harbour. [...]