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Jane Sullivan

Reporter · AU

Indexed articles, last 90 days
6
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Sep 30, 2026
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Jul 24, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 30, 2026 · Jane Sullivan

    How BookTok and Korean snack wrappers have made reading radical (opens the original)

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    You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. Well, I never. Reading books is sexy. Apparently fed up with social media, young women (and some young men) are turning back to this ancient form of communication where you actually have to think. “She’s back – and hotter than ever,” writes Issy McElroy for Nasty magazine, a compendium of what’s called “the dusky side” of fashion and art. Accompanied by photos of a blonde model in her undies getti

  2. Article · Sep 18, 2026 · Jane Sullivan

    Why I hate ‘top 100’ book lists (and can’t stop reading them) (opens the original)

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    You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. What is it about these Top 100 book lists? They are absurd. If critics choose them, they reflect only the critics’ tastes. If chosen by the public, they reflect only what people interested in voting have read and liked. You can’t say these are the best books of all time; you can only say they represent something about readers’ choices at a particular moment. And yet like many others, I find these

  3. Article · Sep 4, 2026 · Jane Sullivan

    My sexier, steamier career is exactly what was needed (opens the original)

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    You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. When Stella Miles Franklin’s first novel, My Brilliant Career, was published in 1901 it had mixed and often patronising reviews from the (mostly male) critics. But the readers who loved it were young Australian girls like herself, growing up on remote homesteads and dreaming of a better life. Jill Roe’s biography of Franklin quotes from their letters. Pearl Wilson of Jenolan Caves thought it “the

  4. Article · Aug 18, 2026 · Jane Sullivan

    Is Rachel Cusk’s new novel a ruthless betrayal of Natalie Portman? (opens the original)

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    You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. We all love a juicy literary scandal, and there have been plenty of them recently involving memoirs. But the latest concerns a famous novelist and an even more famous movie star. Rachel Cusk’s new novel, M, is about an actress whose beautiful face is everywhere. She is observed by an author, something of a friend, who has her permission to write about her. What emerges is a portrait of a woman who

  5. Article · Aug 7, 2026 · Jane Sullivan

    From nasal sprays to spreads: The deadliest ways to kill a character (opens the original)

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    You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. When we were all in a tizz about a recent murder trial involving mushrooms, the most common comment was “Isn’t it just like an Agatha Christie novel?” The Queen of Crime was a great aficionado of death by mushroom or toadstool, and she used the device in at least four novels. Florrie Gibbs in Murder is Easy supposedly dies of poisoned mushrooms that she picked herself. There’s a poisoned mushroom

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